New poems

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Otoliths: A Magazine of Many E-Things

My poems "Redaction Comics #1," "Assertion," and "Wanna-Be" are now available at Otoliths.  Check out this Australian site's interesting mix of content!

On belief

Belief is a reflection of desire unfettered by probability.

In bliss (de Quevedo)

Su tumba fue su amada;
hermosa, sí, pero temprana y breve;
ciega y enamorada,
mucho al amor y poco al tiempo debe;
y pues en sus amores se deshace,
escríbase:  Aqui goza, donde yace.

Its tomb was its beloved;
lovely, yes, but fleetingly so;
blind and enamored,
much to love it owes, little to time;
and because it was by loving undone,
engrave:  it lies in bliss where it died.

Francisco de Quevedo, from "Túmulo de la mariposa"

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Chicken and Mushrooms

Made from this recipe (I added the potatoes).

Man on the moon

Comic by Tom Gauld.

Rapid aging

Stress is a killer.

Just a reply (Moore)

Love is the answer, said the songs, and that's OK. It was OK, I supposed, as an answer. But no more than that. It was not a solution; it wasn't really even an answer, just a reply.

Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs

Opinion

Everyone manufactures opinions—it's what we do, perhaps all we do—but they are not all of equal quality or value.

Spades (de Quevedo)

Azadas son la hora y el momento
que, a jornal de mi pena y mi cuidado,
cavan en mi vivir mi monumento.

The hours and seconds are spades,
by pain and grief well paid, digging
my grave in the midst of my days.

Francisco de Quevedo, from "Signifícase la propria brevedad de la vida, sin pensar, y con padecer, salteada de la muerte

Redaction Comics #1, Assertion, Wanna-Be

Three of my poems, "Redaction Comics #1," "Assertion," and "Wanna-Be," have been accepted and will be published in the next issue of Otoliths: A Magazine of Many E-Things. The issue is scheduled to go live on August 1.

On tradition

Tradition means only that people have been doing something the same way for a while. It doesn't imply that that way is a better way, much less the better way.

Something (Limón)

I want to give you something, or I want to take
something from you. But I want to feel the exchange...

Ada Limón, from "How Far Away We Are"