aka, The Abject Muse

Tag: Open Link Night

  • 2nd Grade & Why I’m Not Catholic

    2nd Grade & Why I’m Not Catholic

      The piece below recounts the actual events of a day at St. James Elementary School in Arlington Heights, IL. 1966, or so.  I flunked a phonics test and Sister Eleanor is scowling like Satan: goose-stepping back and forth, spitting “God Hates You Brats.” She doesn’t know that God likes kids, even brats and kids who…

  • The Other Half

    It’s open link night over at the dVerse Poets Pub. I decided to create another nonet using a line from Postscript by Seamus Heany: One side is wild with foam and glitter . One side is wild with foam and glitter — kaleidoscope of dancing snow. Conversely, its other half, a cacophony of apathy in…

  • Cruel Eclipse

    It’s Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub!   Star-crossed and in perpetual orbit: the Moon circling the Earth circling the Sun—your heart beating the rhythm of my soul. Enter the cruel eclipse: spouses, children! (yours, mine never ours). Still, this relentless and unchangeable love, our secret conflagration, longs to burn out loud.  

  • I Knew

    I Knew

    It’s Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub!   A Rondel is a French form consisting of 13 lines: two quatrains and a quintet, rhyming as follows: ABba abAB abbaA. The capital letters are the refrains, or repeats. The first time I met you I knew, I would be foolish to fall in love…

  • Synchronicity

    Synchronicity

    It’s Open Link Night at the dVerse Poets Pub! Your lips move In sync with your hands, giving a voice to the words that live in your heart. You write them on the air (in permanent, invisible ink) and my heart can hear ~ So clearly ~ What my ears cannot.