I will miss that forever.“Caroni Circuit” (collage by Lawrence Waldron)įrom the 1970s to 1990s, alongside troubling us not only with the sentience of animals but also with their potential as foils of humanity and its suprematist conceits, Shadow was exploring two other lines of rival intelligences, namely space aliens and artificial intelligence.Īliens have been appearing in Shadow’s oeuvre since the beginning of his career-long before X-Files or even Close Encounters. She was my best friend and an honest reader, always a fan yet ever ready to be truthful, critical in the scholarly sense, and encouraging with her brilliant insights. I am grateful to have been able to read a very few of them aloud to her in recent months, but it will always be a point of much sadness that these "unsaid" things (much like the manuscript mentioned by the speaker of the poem) will not be attended by her eyes and smiles. I had hoped to print them out and present them to her as a gift one day. My mother, Jeannette, who passed away very recently, never got to read most of my poems from the last year or so. Mermaid image challenge (mermaid holding a well-dressed man seemingly drowning underwater) prompt - link: With lithesome light burned bright and starkĢ40 words. Like almost all of my poems, this is carefully written to be read aloud. Beautiful Words and Splendid Diction prompt challenge - link:
Merwin quote (2nd quote inspiration: "Your absence has gone through me." - from Merwin's "Separation") challenge prompt - link:ĩ0 words. More about the historic women referenced here:Īda Lovelace, Mathematician and among the First Computer ProgrammersĪnd though it seems I leave through doorsĢ07 words. Archimedes quote (".I will move the Earth") challenge prompt - link: Neil deGrasse Tyson quote inspiration (the universe not being obligated to make any sense) challenge prompt - link:Ĭounting everything, 100 words (the prompt limit).
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