Mending Mattisse

Dicks on Dancers
Auden made a comment once
about all readers being
like little boys who draw
mustaches on ladies in posters
They say that the difference
between men and boys
is the price of their toys
but it also resides
in the magnitude of subterfuge
and vandalism
Matisse had strange ideas:
in his portrayal of a bacchanal
The Dance is danced by naked
humans sans sex organs
I thought [...]

Sages & Swords (Fantasy Fiction Anthology)

Independent Publishers Group
Rumor has it this title is close to going out of print. It’s a really terrific anthology of short fantasy fiction collected, selected, and masterfully arranged by editor Daniel E. Blackston. If you’re into short fantasy fiction, you’ll love this anthology. If you missed getting Lords of Swords before it went out of [...]

young man’s fancy - a sonnet

 
Don Juan in the Sonnet
Just to be a poet of love, Ovid
of this new Age, but then-experience.
Heart racing, straining, as I jump, climb, swim,
fall my way away from fathers, husbands,
brothers with bared steel and death in their eyes?
All the time pining for my own Roxanne
only to find naïve heart and nether
organ beguiled by today’s Jezebel?
I [...]

AVESTA — Zoroastrian Archives

AVESTA — Zoroastrian Archives
Now these boys are really fun. I find this absolutely fascinating. Much of it tends to burrow into my fiction now and again. I love Persian/Sanskrit names.
It fascinates me for numerous reasons:

parallels to KJV
departures from traditional Christian doctrine
bleeds among the Abrahamic religions
Archetypal aspects of the Beings named
Anthropological implications of climate/environmental influences on [...]

Every Day Fiction

Every Day Fiction
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