The Futility of Action
Our lives are sprawled in a meanin
where aims benevolent or evil, sel
eventuate in tortured remnants of
where Christ’s counsel of love to

I see the merit in Hemingway’s ch
the sudden casting of oneself upo
but I would like to go more slowly
from different categories: first p
then, one after another, lower bac

Drama 101
Belief in righteousness began the
Fanaticism breeds most violence:
See Beowulf remove poor Grendel’s
To conquer (from his view) malevol

Autumn in Florida
Smug live oaks drop a leaf or two,
Acknowledging the time of year;
Droll cypress take from this their
Turn rust as if their end is near.

Above the stores medieval grimness
stones coffin-sized in high gray w
exuding dampness of tombs, lichene
towering inward, threatening Gothi
across the twisting cart-wide lane

Jesus’ Brother
Perturbed by earthly crimes, God
“Your brother’s failed miserably;
Have only caused more may mayhem,
Involving ugly beanies, callouse

Kinkade Faces Reality*
To coda played by lonely whippoorw
A tiny cottage dons its dusk-dark
And snuggles into undulating hills
Its chimney twisting just a curl o

An Abomination*
Ice-gleamed streets, sky an ebony
and a girl accordions her tiny car
into the back of mine.
She, carmine-streamed, head throug

He makes a mild volley,
teasingly, with a wry smile,
condescending to her female fragil
but she strokes a rather sharp ret
whereupon he responds a little har

Academic Editors
I hate the callow ones who think t
And have therefore the right to cr
I hate the ones who charge me twen
So I can try to win a ten-buck pr