Category: Entertainment

  • A Melody of Persistence

    A Melody of Persistence

    Last night’s dinner encruststhe gray enamel plates. The stickypaste of gnocchi hardened on the surface like gum that’s beenthere for months. The dishessing out in an orchestra of you’re an idiot and why didn’t you do this sooner? A ballad of you’re such a  procrastinator from the moundsof unwashed laundry, the pile of whining textbooks,…

  • THE BLUE BOOK

    THE BLUE BOOK

    I imagine his book of poetry to be blue—Cover blue, spine blue, pages, poems, blueMe, blue him to make blue That he exists bluely and glued To the notion of me praying for more poems To arrive from his side of life to my sad here. His signature is missing where signs speak Of the…

  • 12 Years a Librarian

    12 Years a Librarian

    In June of 2019 I finished 12 years and begin my 13th year as a librarian at Queens Library, my eighth year serving as a supervisor. With this milestone I believe I am accomplishing one of the pillars of a human being’s life journey: finding meaningful work. We all know the game of information seeking…

  • WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?: Vea’s Thai Coconut Mini Crunch Bars

    WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE?: Vea’s Thai Coconut Mini Crunch Bars

    a) How many people had to sign off on these to bring Vea’s Thai Coconut Mini Crunch Bar into existence? b) How much money could they possibly make to have them worth producing when they aren’t an obvious choice of the busy parent/weed-related snacking/slumber party junk-food-saturnalia markets? c) What time of day snack niche do…

  • Pray Predator Prey

    Pray Predator Prey

    Its nostrils widen, pupils dilate. It caught our scent. Sweat, mud, teenage girl, lavender, wormwood. Poor creature has no idea what’s coming for it. Ivy shoots me a grin, more snarl than smile, and I know she feels it too. Feels the doe’s heartbeat pounding with ours, feels it racing and quivering, stuttering to keep…

  • Five out of Five

    Five out of Five

    So, way back when I was in the second grade, they started these commercials on TV during Saturday morning cartoons when kids all over America ruled the TV dial, as you might recall. And this quip came up: “Four out of five dentists recommend sugarless gum for their patients who chew gum” as if most…

  • Hyacinth

    Hyacinth

    Apollo slouches in his pewtired from the touch of familiar strangerswho bring apple cake and baked hamlike it’s medicine to the broken hearted the body lays in the dusty fields of early summerworking tirelessly with tractor and disc harrow spitting up the earthteeth eating, not only dirt, but quiet fleshwithout warning, there is a blood…

  • Hypostasis

    Hypostasis

    I wonderif it countsas prayer –what I breathe out,call out,when we’re both/and,when, with my tongue,I write Godinto the sacred lack of spacebetweenus,into the almostness,the now-delight.God! enfleshedGod! spirited MoverGod! the Father and the Mother and the ChildGod! You with your senseless generosity!Your lavish liberality! You-to-whom-all-flesh-shallcome. Featured Download: If you would like a resource to help you…

  • Sukidayo

    Sukidayo

    Your silver gaze captivatesme. One moment, a lightgray. The next a vibrant cobalt, as potent as your prodigious emotion.Oh, I was going to kiss you. Oh. Tentative lips meet,only brushing the surface,leaving want in the air. 付き合いたい。 My hands on the wheel,my heart beating hard justbeing next to you. Your deep voice rings out. I’ve…

  • Finishing Strong Stories in Avengers Endgame

    Finishing Strong Stories in Avengers Endgame

    Finishing strong stories came up over and again in Avengers Endgame. It makes sense considering the question at hand: how do superheroes retire? Morally, it seems, if they plan to end well. For power, money, pleasure, and honor remain insufficient — even now with great power, great money, great pleasure, great honor comes still greater…

  • favorite poems of all time: an incomplete obsession

    favorite poems of all time: an incomplete obsession

    Here’s something: an incomplete list of my favorite poems of all time. Incomplete because I couldn’t remember scads of great poems I’ve read across the years. Still, I was able to compile a pretty good representation of my taste and group poems by theme. (And song lyrics count cause I say so.) Here we go…

  • TAKES A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR TO MAKE THE REALITY OF DEATH GO DOWN: Butterfinger Smooth and Crunchy Peanut Butter Cups Skulls

    TAKES A SPOONFUL OF SUGAR TO MAKE THE REALITY OF DEATH GO DOWN: Butterfinger Smooth and Crunchy Peanut Butter Cups Skulls

    Spooks, ghosts, skeletons, you know the whole Halloween kit and caboodle—frankly, I’ve always been a fan. Butterfinger Smooth And Crunchy Peanut Butter Cups Skulls utilizes one of solidest tropes: the skull. Two surprisingly hefty ones of ‘em per package. While the Capuchin catacombs of Rome (human hip bones splayed out like cocktail napkins on the…