Sisyphus Ponders Escape Here we are, back to Sisyphus, the mythological Greek king of Ephyra (or Corinth) who was condemned to push a boulder endlessly uphill as punishment for his sneaky deceitfulness. His punishment was overseen in the underworld by…
Deciding Not To This is a poem written about my father’s persistence in choosing life over death. Since it was written, unfortunately, Dad has passed on, though I believe he would have persisted if he could have. Deciding Not To…
In This Circumference, An Ode? – Poem of the Week Moving on from last week’s surreal No Pink Armadillo, we reach the space of lyric poetry. I could probably find you a solid, intellectual, definition of the lyric poem. But that…
No Pink Armadillo This week’s poem moves into surrealist territory. No Pink Armadillo is also what I call a slant-sonnet, which you can read more about in the blog post where I announced the original publication. It is also at least…
this week’s poem is What You Can Overhear — a poem that uses U. S. presidential administration terms to mark time
