A shadorma.
Poetry
Holding the painter at arm’s length (a poem)
This started out as a shadorma, but I reworked the first couple of stanzas, which led to what I now have.
An unsettling feeling, in four parts (a poem)
Trying something slightly different. Inspired by a Swedish Cancer Center commercial and episodes of The Twilight Zone.
I am surviving (a poem)
A shadorma that I feel better about. Earlier this week, a woman named Deborah Danner was killed by New York police responding to a 911 call from her neighbors. Ms. Danner had schizophrenia; it seems likely she was having some sort of episode related to her illness. Yesterday, the New York Times ran an editorial about her, in which they linked to an essay (shared by her lawyer) that she wrote four years ago. Many of the things she wrote about in the essay are familiar to me—I have lived with anxiety and panic attacks since 1989.
The stanzas in this poem roughly correspond to the paragraphs in Ms. Danner’s essay, but they also reflect my own experience.
Quiescence (a poem)
A moment.
Now that it is done (a poem)
A shadorma after voting yesterday. Not much—but, as Diane Keaton says in one of Woody Allen’s movies, ‘hey, they can’t all be winners.’
Campaign (a poem)
A shadorma about the Election That Will Not End.
ART 53 redux #7
This Is Fifty-three redux #7
My printed proof from IngramSpark arrived today, so I can now compare with the CreateSpace-printed copies I already have.
Now, I’m too tired to take photos right now (insomnia), so I will either add later, or post separately. In the meantime, here is what I am noticing: Continue reading
A small request for the next woman to love me, if you are out there somewhere (a poem)
A shadorma on a much better day. Partly inspired by The Matrix Reloaded.
ART 53 redux #6
This Is Fifty-three redux #6
Okay, that’s much better! The updated electronic proof from IngramSpark now matches the PDF I uploaded, and the printed proof I ordered late last week is due to arrive tomorrow.
(18 October 2016)
Ordinary Average Thoughts 