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12 Steps
Linguistic liposuction. Words are my opium, my Holy Grail, my Dulcinea del Toboso. Stop hoarding. Start purging. End binge. Launch fast. Replace forty pounds with forty poems. Paunch for poetry. One year. Go... (Source: "12 Steps: A Minifesto", 40x41: Midlife Crisis Postponed) Linguistic liposuction?!?! Believe it. You needed appreciate it, but you must believe it. This ...
Crescent Moon
A return to the crescent moon, an image and an idea that I've probed elsewhere, "Cuckold Moon" and Cuernos, for example... I've been fascinated with the shape and mystique of the delicate lunar arc. And I think I first began writing about it right after college. This crescent moon doodle is an absent minded scribble from a meeting or phone call. It's nothing, means nothing. It's just a whimsical ...
Wrinkles
"You know that you have officially HIT at total midlife crisis when you get acne on your wrinkles." ~ Comic Strip Mama ...
Triumph
"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age." ~ Amos Bronson Alcott ...
Cuernos
A memento mori wrapped up in a memory, a "surf's up" shake of the thumb and pinky, far from the sea. One of the themes woven into "Cuckold Moon". ...