Oil Poached Salmon
A Recipe for Two Ingredients 16 oz of fresh farmed salmon (wild salmon has parasites!)Olive oil1 stick of butter1 shallot (about an ounce)4 ounces of dry...
“Elizabeth’s Moonbeams”
This one was of my first underwater model. She is my daughter and was humoring her eccentric mother by posing underwater for photographs. We had no idea how...
Angelina Jolie’s Lips
Lipstick, shadow, liner—all she needs,the finest-looking woman in the world,Angelina Jolie, bare-shinned, unshod(a glossy two-page colour spread),sitting on...
Listening to Messiaen September, 2020
Making sense is overratedbetter the gibberings of mad men.Address the homeless;tell them the latest numbersfresh from randomization.As long as there are...
2020 Sunsets - September - “Bold and Brave”
The ‘stay at home’ regimen of 2020 due to the pandemic had many down sides, but it did have one upside for myself. Staying at home gave me the excuse to...
An Updated Mind
He rode the comet’s tail through life arriving to report-Coded sense of images, pretend imagination.Stormy waves of drowning thoughts across a morbid sea.A...
The Opening
Blue and white morning gloriesClimbed the wire fence,Separating my own back yard from Ouida’s.Don’t know who planted the vines,Nor do I know who made the...
Shiny Sky
Some people are just like shooting starsThey come, they shineAnd they go
Deluge
The story is that Jesus died for mysins and that, of course, was good of Him, Iwonder if it was better for me butthen if He's the Son of God how could Ioutdo...
James the Moose
He was liberated,from the amusement parkby a careful and cleverdisplay of skill and gracein the face of impossiblecarnival odds and tricks.But not by me,...
The Awakening
I picked up the ‘Writing Together” Zoom class notes for“this coming month’s session” and started to read.The homework was assigned, and it was time to make...
The Wanderer
Don’t doubt that I’m a strangerMy home was a distant thoughtSome called it paradiseBut today I’m a wandering manDon’t ask me why I came hereI heard hope...
An Afternoon in June
Church bells singin the thick, hot airand humidity clingsto skin and hair;only AC units growl and grindin reply. Even the dogs are silentin the heat of this...
How to Become Invisible
Be silent, still, and stay away from sky.Play the edge of time—the two-faced twilight,the quick and cunning light of dawn and dusk.Play the edge of space—the...
Seashells
Our lives are like seashells in the sand,Arranged on a palette, seemingly haphazardly.A beautiful seascape with the ocean, sun, wind,and sparkling sands...
The Observer
Dr. Gates was an ambitious man. He always carried his clipboard with him and exactly one black pen, one blue pen, one red pen, and one finely sharpened No.2...
The Thumbelina Chronicles
PrologueApril 2018The fiery accents of orange-gold in the western sky had gingerly muted into a soft peach. Rich hues of champagne and pastel pink blended...
Pledge of Allegiance
Mama said the dresses that fluttered from our porch railing were flags. They were for when we started our own country. I said when would that be and she said...
Issue 11: Summer 2021
Hello everyone, and Welcome to this issue of eMerge! It seems as though time has flown since Covid arrived. As Groucho Marx once so eloquently put it, “Time...
I Don't Mean that Weird-Like
When physical degradation happens, I don’t get too upset. I have a mantra: work the problem. This helped me through a nosebleed crisis necessitating a trip...