Dock of the Bloody Day

Killer Nashville mock crime scene 2019 “How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?” Leonard Cohen There are days when the best I can manage is to stare into the void and flick a middle finger at it. The words are always there; it’s just a matter of rearranging the letters […]

A Cigarette

In researching one of my novels, An Act of Ambition, about a suicide–or was it murder?–in the Florida Keys, I found the quotes below by Cesar Pavase, Italian author, poet, and translater. He committed suicide following the dissolution of a love affair and figures in my novel. My short story and poem frag resulted… From […]

Madra Duhb (Black Dawg): a tale of dark magic and illumination

‘Sun-murmers’ and sparkles this time of year, and gayly hued buds, prodded by sultry breezes give silly waves…summer also brings fierce storms that overflow rivers and take down power lines, reminding us gods once wielded lightning bolts and slammed hammers into the earth. This is a tale for just such a stormy night… Among the […]

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 […]