The Geecologist

I, Too

I, Too

Oct 27, 2018 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ll...
I Sing The Body Electric

I Sing The Body Electric

Oct 13, 2018 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

1 I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul. Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own...
The One Who Waits

The One Who Waits

Oct 6, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

I live in a well. I live like smoke in the well. Like vapor in a stone throat. I don’t move. I don’t do anything but wait. Overhead I see the cold stars of night and morning, and I see the sun. And sometimes I sing old songs of this world when it was young. How can I...
4 3 2 1

4 3 2 1

Sep 29, 2018 | Fiction | 0 comments

So there they were in July 1961, about to set off for Camp Paradise at the start of that eventful summer when all the news from the outside world seemed to be bad news: the wall going up in Berlin, Ernest Hemingway blasting a bullet through his skull in the mountains...
On Balance

On Balance

Sep 22, 2018 | Fiction, Poetry | 0 comments

Tribute It takes ten thousand hours to shine at anything.And if we haven’t spent night after night on the Reeperbahn cranking our act so tight it stood up all by itself and walked,we’ve come close, but we still fall flat. We sweat inside our Sullivan suits. The early...
In A German Pension

In A German Pension

Sep 15, 2018 | Fiction, Short Stories | 0 comments

Frau Brechenmacher Attends A Wedding “Fancy Theresa bringing that child with her. It’s her own child, you know, my dear, and it’s going to live with them. That’s what I call a sin against the Church for a free-born child to attend its own...