My latest poem is a look at myself. I am not completely satisfied with it. Comments on improving it are more than welcomed. Self Portrait The pencil shadows the face, Rounds the head into a sketch, The dark hair, the thin lips, Features of a Roman bust, Tied through DNA, The blood at Cannae, victory at Zama... What blood, what victory? Does the mirror lie? The face, fattened and graying, Has never ...
For my second entry, I wish to include my short story, "Shop Talk." http://www.online-literature.com/for...2&d=1159702272 you can post comments here in the blog, or at the thread I've set up for discussion: http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=19984 All comments are welcomed. Please feel free to ask questions as to my thought processes.
To start my blog, I will take my favorite lines of the poetry I already posted on lit net and paste them here. They are not in any order. From "Limoncello" (http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17437) A lovely smile, lambent and dark, Chiaroscuro lips proudly assert, “I do not look my age.” Seafood in a marinara sauce Mussels, shrimp, clams, calamari Fructi di Mare, over linguine and ...