Van Gogh’s dark sky
Michael GallagherCriterion is as might be.A nickel in the pocket,trousers zipped tight,a lonely seaward journeythrough Van Gogh's night.
Shortness is sweetness
Would we ever but to embraceall that remained would be effervescent,human and altogether commonplace.
Style and anchorless metaphors
Styleforth forwardstings like a rusty bayonetin the deep waters of the Atlanticand the cold presses closelike an imaginative vixenin a Dicken's novel.Crymy beloved,the injustice is there, not an apparition,not an…
Poetry from my past and the advent of online publishing
In the interest of full disclosure, I give you my poetry from back in 1996, when I was writing pretty consistently with less than brilliant results. This was the beginnings…
Question for the Day
How will this end?
Grass in front of Seoul Plaza Hotel
Seoul,lonely summer evening,deep in the confines of Gangbuk.Lifting tired feet from cracked pavement,sleeping on the grassin front of City Hall.Watching the trapped tigersin the Plaza Hotel coffee shop.Looking West towardsDeoksugung,…
A Haiku by Basho, perfect and simple
Won't you come and seeloneliness? Just one leaffrom the kiri tree.