I took this photograph of the St. Louis 15th century chess set many years ago at the Louvre in Paris. A few years ago I wrote this short poem so I thought I should bring them together. It’s a good match but not perfect because someone moved several black pieces.
Waiting Game
positions set
they wait
Queens, pawns
bishops
knights, rooks
Kings
who will move them
when
they wait
Thinking about writing short stories and poems around images. It may be time to put together a chap book with some new and old work like, Kite String.
KITE STRING
Outer channel, open sea
crimson morning sky
Infernal black combustion
throbbing … gladly cut,
eternal windswept gas fumes pale,
breeze force fills the sail.
Troubles and the tethered life,
obscured on shrinking shore.
Fluid rocking firm acceleration,
fluent thought, revisit fresh
exhilaration.
Refined reflections ebb and flow
above the restive depths.
All is wind blown, floating free
as if at kite string’s
distant soaring end…
… Too soon,
the kite string reels us back,
returned and yet, refreshed.
Truth, our life and loves ashore,
amid the motor’s roar.
This is a recent addition to the Forceton Art Shop on ETSY.
The way lighthouses were meant to be seen. From the water.
Photographic Digital Art
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Been working on the creation of an Etsy photographic art online store offering canvas gallery wraps.
Photographic art for me involves the attempt to capture beauty and offer some measure of pleasure and satisfaction to the viewer.
You see something interesting. You stop to look at it. Maybe it makes you think for a moment. You enjoy it.
Another pleasure of mine is writing. Much the same applies. Something catches your attention. You read something. It triggers thoughts. You enjoy it.
Simple ideas that can be very complicated in practice.
You can visit the Etsy store at https://www.etsy.com/shop/ForcetonArt
Decided to spend my time reading in August. Enjoyed reading the following random selection of books.
Gore Vidal, The Golden Age
Dan Brown, Deception Point
Pat Conroy, South of Broad
Jay Parini, Passages of HM
Orson Scott Card, Empire
John Grisham, The Appeal
John Casey, Compass Rose
Pixel Poetry: A Meritocracy by Colin Ward
This is an article in Rattle about online and offline poets and poetry that just rings true to me. Read it twice.
Matuu and The Sail (link) was selected from the short stories published in the second quarter by Bewildering Stories. These are works that the selection committee would, “recommend that a friend read”. For some backstory on this piece click here.
The free verse poem, Whispers In Its Silence, is scheduled for publication on Every Day Poets July 16, 2011.
Vague Visions, Refined Reflections ? 
