Like dreaming of an elusive lover.
How easily the mind is torn out of it by the flash
Of exotic dishes.
These, before anything else can be done
Or even imagined, must be evaluated.
The considerations, paramount to survival, must be careful
Though they can never be complete.
--What shall be eaten?
Remembering the beginning
It’s time to storm the world for a consummation
Only to be crippled by the need to sustain the self.
Neither will nor disgust can override it.
Not even panic as the color of he… Continue

National Novel Writing Month has begun, goals of 1,667 words per day, 50k by the end of the month.

I have 874 words so far and will continue when I wake up later today, this Nov. 1st.

I had an assignment in my English course the other week, and it was to write a poem about a "modern monster." Unsurprisingly, my best friend and I wrote about the same "monster," though we didn't realize it until we brought completed our poems in. ; ) Here is mine:

Apathy
I'd think you were staring down a statue if these hot diamonds called tears weren't running down my face.
Your eyes – do they see?
I'd say the harder stone was in your eyes – but the hardest ston… Continue

Through the dim lit streets she walks,
Huntress upon prey the dark lady stalks,
With velvety skin like chocolate,
She need not slay if she can coerce,
A coldness shivers through the force,
As someone else knows he is prey,
He himself can mask his force sensitivity,
From this seductress he met earlier today,
It is fate that only one outcome can play.
Her name is Lady Midnight,
No man nor quary ever gets away.

I normally don't write poems, though I thought i'd give it a try when I made these foll… Continue

The next meeting of the editors Nikki Quismondo, Marie J. Ross, and Marjorie Banks will be October 24th. I'll join them to do some assistance. If you'd like me to forward any notes to the editors please let me know before then if possible to add them to discussion. Afterward we will prepare to contact contributors about the works we'd like to use and formalities.

- Donald