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Protected: A Traveler Wrecked in Seas of Time

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On Native Doldrums’ Tide — Stanza 44

A typical 'chasing boat.'Res Publica, Book One, Canto the First 44. And so – some seventeen months later there I was! A volunteer, a ‘chasing boater’ sailing for beer, quite close to my home – and...

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“A Weirdly Whispering Wind”— Stanzas 227 to 234

Res Publica, Book One, Canto the Third How our narrator, waking safely on his island, celebrates his survival – but then, to his despair, discovers an unexpected hatchling . . . Marc Ellis, former New...

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“America” by Zireaux

‘…and, of course / by Sendak’s blessed isle…’America by Zireaux (Lines from Kamal, Book One). To M. America! You gave me your tongue. Your child-bard who madly swung your throbbing bullroarer around...

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“Be Clear, My Throat!”— The Story of Kamal, by Zireaux

I’m going to tell you the story of Kamal…My dearest followers, friends, subscribers, re-tweeters, and most of all, my good readers and listeners: I’m going to tell you the story of Kamal — one of the...

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“At Melville’s Tomb” by Hart Crane

Selected for Immortal Muse by Zireaux (read Zireaux’s comments on this poem) Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge The dice of drowned men’s bones he saw bequeath An embassy. Their numbers as he...

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Glimpses of the Modern Empire: “From the Ruins of Empire” by Pankaj Mishra

From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asiaby Pankaj Mishra368 pages, September 2012Farrar, Straus and GirouxPart II. The Chariot Drive of Progress Of course the boom-bust — or...

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