The Wastelands
This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper. T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Men Photographed at The Great Fissure.
View ArticleDonna Flora in the Fountain
Three coins in a fountain Each one seeking happiness Thrown by three hopeful lovers Which one will the fountain bless Three hearts in a fountain Each heart longing for its home There they lie in the...
View ArticleCrying In the Chapel
You saw me crying in the chapel. The tears I shed were tears of joy I know the meaning of contentment Now I am happy with the Lord Just a plain and simple chapel Where humble people go to pray I pray...
View Article“…to reign in Hell….”
…Is this the Region, this the soil, the clime, Said then the lost archangel, this the seat That we must change for Heaven, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?… …Be it so, since he Who now is...
View ArticleBlack Ice
They say that black ice is the most dangerous…. …Glittering, cold, smooth and slick — and innocuous…. …Until you touch it – And then — and then — ! Harper Ganesvoort, November 2012 ===== The cold...
View ArticleOzymandia
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip,...
View ArticleThoughts Of a Supermodel Waiting For the Shoot To Start
Okay, how long’s it gonna be this time? The freakin’ genius there has to get things Ju-uuu-ust right Before he’ll shoot a single freakin’ frame Twitching the lights ten times And moving them about an...
View ArticleParty Here, Party There, Everywhere
…On disco lights, your name will be seen You can fulfill all your dreams Party here, party there, everywhere This is your night, baby, you’ve got to be there…. Kool & the Gang, “Ladies Night” It’s...
View ArticleCalifornia Nights
Click through for larger sizes Along the sand Let’s walk the shores together now Yes hand in hand It’s gonna be fair weather now When the stars come out Stop (Stop) To count them in the sky Love...
View ArticleYemana
demons got me stressing overtime questions and doubts filling my mind apprehensions and misconceptions leading to momentary indiscretions give me back my mind i scream but it’s really my heart that’s...
View ArticleThoughts of a Resident Surfer, Looking for Entertainment
Here’s to the Internet! Creation of universities enabler of communications storehouse of knowledge repository of porn facilitator of spies playground of trolls destroyer of newspapers source of...
View ArticleSpirit of the Earth
NOTICE: The images in this article are nude, and may not be considered safe for work or other situations. By clicking through, you agree that you understand this, and are old enough to be...
View ArticleTo a Friend Estranged from Me
Now goes under, and I watch it go under, the sun That will not rise again. Today has seen the setting, in your eyes cold and senseless as the sea, Of friendship better than bread, and of bright...
View ArticleAZUL Camille — The Dream-Ship
I had hoped to get this written and published before the close of Join Hands for Nepal, but time and events conspired to make it nearly otherwise. Still, if you can get to the event before it closes,...
View ArticleWaiting…. (Republished with revisions)
Publisher’s note: As you may know, I originally published this poem, written by me, in September 2011. Recently, though, I’ve wanted to polish it up a little and take new, less muddy photos to...
View ArticleMaking an Entrance
If anyone can Make an Entrance, it’s Ariel Sherman. Cyborg, onetime unwilling “courtesan” in a pleasure house on the planet Videra, now the owner and star artiste of her own revue, the largest and...
View ArticleFrom Hair Fair 2015 — sYs Micha
Hair Fair is among us again, and the crowds should have eased a little by now. I, however, was one of the foolish, uh, brave ones who plunged into the thick of things on the first night and worked my...
View ArticleBerry’s Monday Memes — Yearbook Daze
Singing Radiohead at the top of our lungs With the boom box blaring as we’re falling in love Got a bottle of whatever, but it’s getting us drunk Singing here’s to never growing up — Avril Lavigne For...
View ArticleBetween the Shadow and the Soul
I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz, or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off. I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul. I...
View ArticleHallowe’en 2015 — Mariposa
Actually, I don’t think Wordsworth had this kind of butterfly in mind when he wrote this ode. Bob Mackie did, though, when he created Le Papillon, the original gown for Barbie that Kelini Couture based...
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