Fiction & Verse
et cetera
Recent Writing
Multitudes
Admittedly, this “poem” has a bit of inside/very local humor, mostly as an affront to aesthetic decency. Still . . .
Mansur of Dasht-e Kavir
The masnavi is a kind of Persian narrative poetry with rhyming couplets, often with morals around Sufi mysticism, ethics, and theology. My lessons are perhaps more deconstructive illuminations.
Of Kings and Things
When writing children’s verse, it’s hard to see where sincerity ends and parody begins . . . .
Phantom
Concrete poetry depends on the poem’s shape on the page for some of its meaning. I remember doing these as kids, yes, but now . . . ?
Epigrams
In the mood for some pithy wisdom? Maybe move on. . . .
Everything but
A good day, he decided. A shift, a movement. He could not possibly predict now who he would become, only that watching his thumb press across that stray glop of Gillette and thus reveal a little more blue in the vanity countertop . . . exhilarated.
Novel
ImageMaker: First Shade
Premiere of Olenthe Series:
Early works now available
Short Story
Story 4
On How Murder is Sometimes Justified