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Category: Poem of the Week

A Picture’s Worth – Poem of the Week

What’s a Picture Worth? A picture’s an interesting thing. Sometimes it shows exactly what you wanted it to show. Sometimes it reveals more than you wanted it to reveal.  And often, for me, it simply fails to stand up to…

Black Hole Becoming – Poem of the Week

Black Hole Becoming – Slowly & With Trust in the Mathematics A black hole is a fascinating phenomena — a destructive event horizon in which matter is pulled inward, to a density beyond imagining. A phenomena about which we can…

You Have A Head Made of A Computer Screen – Poem of the Week

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…

Merope-Poem of the Week

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 – Poem of the Week

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…