The night is coming.

The day birds are quieting.

The rabbits and the foxes
prepare competing rambles.

And the stars are impatient
for blue sky to dim.

The night is coming my love.

So arise my love. Arise.

#poetry #night #romance #nature

A Winter Shift
(4 X 7)

You awake to
a nestling book,
under your hands,
warming your chest;

then you open
your eyes to the
cold and the dark.

#writing #poetry #winter #work #reading

Sunday at Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention.
Only half a day and no movies shown!
Saw an okay panel of writers on the future of "new pulp."
Then bought eight "Man from Uncle" paperbacks - great shape for 59 years old.

#pulps #paperbacks #books #ManfromUncle

Saturday at Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention.
Got even more to read.
Saw two great movies!
The Bat (1926) – Parent of every comedic murder mystery.
The Whole Wide World (1996) – Romance-bio on Robert E. Howard.
Then two meh panels.

#pulps #paperbacks #books #movies #sciencefiction

Friday at Windy City Pulp and Paperback Convention.
Got a lot to read.
Saw a panel on Robert E. Howard.
Gave up on 1921 The Adventures of Tarzan – I kept nodding off.

#pulps #paperbacks #books #movies #comics #sciencefiction

Saturday, March 22, 2025

This morning I was sent,
too low on my horizon,
gray white clouds that
seemed pathless mountains.

The day’s warmth picked them apart,
and for awhile, I was free.

#writing #poetry

Read and transform and remember.

#writing #poetry #memory #transform

The kids from Sheldon Mayer's "Scribbly" steal from Santa. All-American Comics. December 1939 (dated Jan. 1940) I also include the ad from Flash Comics.