June 9, 2010
Frans Jonker had one goal in mind when he climbed back on his old mountain bike in 2007: to pedal back to some degree of fitness. His weight had climbed past 300 pounds and he was despondent. “I had been procrastinating for many, many years in that vegetative state and I was sick of myself; […]
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June 7, 2010
Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon (detail), Salvador Dali Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision. ~Salvador Dali, Declaration, 1929 I’ve missed Poetry Month by a few weeks, but the following poem is among the first pieces of writing I succeeded in getting published. It appeared in […]
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