Midsummer Solstice: Strange Days Indeed

John, by anonymous Spanish painter, 1600-1645 “The earth, like the heart…travels along an elliptical path, drawn towards a dark bath…” Bjork “During that summer, when unicorns were possible; when the purpose of knees was to be skinned…during that summer that may never have been…watermelons ruled…bites are fewer now; each one is savored lingeringly…” John Tobias […]

Sage of Severed Mountain: Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Dancing with them that brung you Thig crìoch air an t-saoghal, ach mairidh gaol is ceòl (the end of the world will come, but love and music will endure) Scotish/Gaelic Proverb “Who so ever asks me of my birth…I will tell them I am born of Irish Princes who ruled in Donegal a […]

Sage of Severed Mountain: Chapter 1

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Sage of Severed Mountain: Memoir of a Mecurial Man, Prologue

“my father moved through dooms of love, through sames of am through haves of gives, singing each morning out of each night, my father moved through depths of height… griefs of joy…his flesh was flesh, his blood was blood… his anger was as right as rain…” e.e.cummings PROLOGUE Requiem skyre en partum (The man has […]

Formularies: A Magical Mystery for Writers

Is there a magic formula for writing?