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Origami Gunship
Seasons Greetings…and a new poem… Mobile post sent by MightyJoeNolan using Utterli. Replies. mp3 ___________________________________________________________ Use this player to listen to my new CD. Purchase a song or two at your favorite digital outlet and help us stay awake here at Insomnia! Find the archives to my Sleepless Film Festival, and more at my You Tube channel: [...]
Invitation and Farewell
Amigos y amigas, Bienvenido a la Nada. “I had a friend who believed in UFO’s” This grey morning Iwalk between the cracks. Backto the seen of the crime:the true, original vision. This grey morning Isteer into the current,escaping the tangled embrace of morningtraffic and autumn trees and sallow light in the mistlike a kiss speaking [...]
Reflections on an Aerial Photograph of a City on a River
Reflections on an Aerial Photograph of a City on a River I’ve heard it said – and who hasn’t – that this city is circles within circles. I’ve heard it said that a city within a circle is European, and that all these rings interconnect even as other rings rise from limestone, through the earth, [...]
Undiscovered Country
God Bless us every one. I have recently discovered a trove of treasure, a vein really, one full of heroines in the rain, firing arrows into the stars. Moving images move at the speed of light. We sit hushed in darkened theaters while Scientists madly scratch their heads in search of Knowledge and Conversation of [...]
Love and Might
Love and Might She walked through the kitchen on bare feet in the middle of the night searching for the knife in the dark. She touched the blade of the chef’s knife and slid it back down into the block. She touched the blade of the bread knife and pulled it all the way out. [...]
The Last Days of Pompeii
Hola, Amigos! If you have been enjoying these little stories I am writing here, encourage me with a comment If you hate these, I’ll understand. Just tell me to stop. THE OL’SARGE In all his days, he’d never seen nothin’ like this. The Sarge wiped his brow with a hard, dirty, tan forearm – the [...]
A Rose Colored Ghost
La Lumiere Jaune Chapter One – “That’s what I do is candles,” she spoke loudly and clearly beneath her whitening, widening eyes, beneath her whitening, thinning hair. He gazed at her, nonplussed, barely paying attention in that way that calls attention to itself. He leaned back, his weight on one foot behind the counter, quickly [...]
A Burning Thing
Love in the Free World Chapter One – The Free and the Brave He sat on the porch, twirling a wooden match between his fingers like a tiny baton. The cars passed by on The Boulevard with a sweet hiss in the just-cool night time air. He could hear the television in the downstairs apartment. [...]
Lake Not Still
Down by the Water Chapter 1 – The Stone Skipper The surface of the lake was smooth, but not still. The entire mirror of its green expanse slowly undulated above fast moving contractions and expansions of water that seemed to have been displaced by something the size of a 16 year old girl. Chapter 2 [...]
Romeo Has A Raygun
Bonjour, mes amis Happy Monday! Here’s to hopin’ you dreamed a little dream in the last 48. Had a quiet weekend myself. Watched the Spartans win a few basketball games. Watched my friend’s teams lose a few. I’ve enjoyed that a little bit too much The Silent Sounding Sea Chapter One – The Young Boy [...]
