Call for a new feminine archetype
And we will call her Femme Vitale Unlike the Femme fatale who takes over a partner and drains them, this woman takes responsibility, acts as custodian for their partner. This woman need not be a warrior for the purposes of this particular aspect. She does not need to be a goddess, or have any magical [...]
Monet’s ‘Water Lilies’ at L’Orangerie
I spent months in battle with a city that smelt of home but had no place for a young American at large; all grey walls and closed elaborate doors– gates that offered a glimpse into lives that never asked to be shared. Parcs, sans any sign of life, left wanting Me, that could not live [...]
“Drink Me”
You pay more attention to the glass in your hand than you do to me. Running your finger round the edge ever pouring the vintage red into its complaisant mouth and then- what a melting of tongue, And teeth meeting the rim! Yes, I’d rather be your wineglass than your lover.
Sonnet; Band Practice
We met beneath the highschool bleachers where The benches faded in the chilly mist Sweat-shirted and fifteen I met her there And touched her on the arm, and nearly kissed her lip brushing my lip, so I could taste The sugar in the Maybelline she wore And breathed, in shy and startled haste The grown-up [...]
from primitive to modern (writing impliments)
Heh! I keep thinking about this, actually. From the time I was, say… twelve, I kept spiral-bound notebooks. I’d write my English assignments in them, and then began keeping one separate one for “creative writing”. When I got serious about writing, I’d start at the beginning of one of these books, and fill every right-hand [...]
three (3) ten (10) word poems
1) A sonnet tasting of you I add a piquant memory. 2) A child’s indigo shadow is running behind sunlit drying sheets. 3) Prosody enrapturing your delicate mind my sly smile invites wanderlust
Writer's to-do list- a baker's dozen
1) Finish the third installment of Mad Moll- a matter of two or three paragraphs, at best- and find the plot for the fourth installment. 2) Finish the sequel to “The Baroness’ Boy” which is halfway done. 3) Finish the last sex scene in the story about the groupie and the rockstar. 4) Finish the [...]
Saw "the Libertine" Saturday night
and I don’t yet have much to say about it. My problem is that I’m so susceptible to film- it pulls me in. I can’t get back far enough to be critical. Quite an amazing cast, and the director did okay for his first feature-length film- this is a guy who’s done a lot of [...]
Principia Discordia
informed my childhood (I had an odd childhood, okay) here’s a pretty good site on the subject of this little religion, the brainchild of Malaclypse the Elder and Omar Kayyam Ravenhurst. When I tell Neopagans I grew up under the eye of Kerry Thornley I get so much respect!
Ezra Pound on writing poetry
“No vers is libre for the man who wants to do a good job” And I do. So there will be many more versions of the Blind Gunman, or I may just kick him out, I don’t know which. He also says; “Don’t imagine that a thing will ‘go’ in verse just because it’s too [...]
