The Achilles Heel of a poet [NF 3:3]

The Achilles Heel of a poet should be a giant moon as big as the earth dangling without a hook staying put the Achilles Heel of a poet should be grasshoppers under rubber wheels bamboo pikes at a cannon’s throat the Achilles heel of a poet should be a windmill spinning not slowly or not […]

Please don’t knock on my door [NF 3:4]

Please don’t knock on my door you’re not welcome there are plenty of “eyes like bullets” in the world my rudeness is nothing new please don’t knock on my poem it’s deaf dumb to the cries it’s by a monster’s side baring its fangs biting off the cap of a beer bottle stay away from […]

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1916) SILENT FILM

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1916) – The famous first cinematic adaptation of the Jules Verne classic. Having loved the version of this pioneering film that was available during the 1990s and earlier I had put off watching the restored and upgraded version released in 2010. That delay was a mistake on my part. The […]