“An Open Letter to a Fellow Poet”
for Adam Sedia[1] But why against one poor poet, a hundred men? "Cyrano de Bergerac" Edmond Rostand What dreams do come to distress needful sleep, to cause me wakeful to take up my pen and write [...]
“The Nihilism of the Empty Tomb”
They seek him here; they seek him there. Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven?—Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel! —The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy “Come now, let us be reasonable men as befits us in this epoch, this age, of enlightenment. If such it be, then why must we continue [...]
“On First Looking Into an Abridged Homer”
For Exander, on his second birthday In this egalitarian age of trans(en)gendered equivalencies work-product art exists, no more or less, as a fungible proxy for any other unit of work-product art; none are good, so there can be none better; to be deemed best but sleight-of-hand prestige: counterfeit currency for consumption. This present is nothing [...]