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Quest for the Holy Fail
One of my favourite stories/ myths of the medieval era concerns the Order of Solomon’s Temple or, the Knights Templar. A veritable shrouded enigma, these figure rose suddenly to prominence from nothing and legend of their treasure and/or erstwhile source of power perplexes scholars, and I, to this day. Holy grail, vast fortune, superlative blackmail Continue reading
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The Master of Allusion
An interesting duality I’ve stumbled across over the past couple days while preparing materials for publication submissions. Going back through old articles and poems I was primarily struck by how shitty some of the earlier work now seems. No reason to fret though, presumably I’ll spend the remainder of my years honing my craft. At Continue reading
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Irate Platitudes to Pirate Latitudes
Pirate Latitudes is of course an unrelated novel by my writer-hero Michael Crichton. It’s topical to the poem as well as immeasurably pleasing to say out loud in combination with the remainder of the title. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Before beginning, a resigned homage to retaliatory tariffs kicking off tomorrow. The INSANELY predictable result of Continue reading
Dread Poets Sobriety 