In Which All The Talking Heads Get Under My Skin You know what I mean by talking heads: those people you see on television “news” programs that shout over one another. The panel of “distinguished guests” that act and speak…
Dear Merope, Which Rhymes with Therapy Ah, I bet you forgot Sisyphus. It’s easy to forget, given the whole up-down-stone-sweat-start-over-effort thing. And…did you forget Merope, too? According to Greek myth, Merope (which actually does rhyme with therapy) was the wife…
Wolf This week’s poem, Wolf, first appeared in Linden Avenue Literary Journal. I finished it not too long after we had visited Alaska on family holiday, but the ideas and first draft actually started a few years prior to that, following a…
Are You Sure? Talking About Absolutes What is an absolute, when you use the word as a noun? The online Oxford Learners Dictionaries gives the definition as “an idea or a principle that is believed to be true or valid…
