Category Archives: Legends

Slime

Posted on June 22, 2022 by sputterpub

Attracted to sci-fi, I read it allwhen I was young: the classics and pulp, too.I watched the movies, and I now recallnear every alien directors threwat us: the monsters building-large or small.And sure they all were gross, but in my … Continue reading →

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Emerging Ferns

Posted on April 2, 2022 by sputterpub

My favorite color’s blue, and yet it’s greenthat draws my eyes, escorts relief’s returnand opens me to hope. A forest scenedoes not forebode – the myths they had me learn,the symbols shown, to me they didn’t meana truth, but made … Continue reading →

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Cassandroid

Posted on July 1, 2021 by sputterpub

The answer to your question is … but wait.I know you won’t be listening to me.I almost loved a god and now my fateis, though I hold the gift of prophecy,when I reneged he tweaked my destiny –I see the … Continue reading →

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Anemone

Posted on September 26, 2020 by sputterpub

My garden stalks now with anemone,the daughter of the wind in purple dress.I never planted it. Love’s deityanointed ground with tears of her distressaround the mortal she could not possess.She made a monument of mauve and goldthat cools my heated … Continue reading →

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To Mom, My Aunts, and My Girlfriends

Posted on July 12, 2020 by sputterpub

I loved heroic tales when I was small, relating some to princesses, but more to youngest sons and cabin boys and all the challenges encountered. That was pure enchantment for me, so I learned their ways: the kindness to each … Continue reading →

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Arborism

Posted on July 25, 2019 by sputterpub

While classic symbolism’s long been held for art produced in oil, words, and notes, I saw, I read, I heard and I rebelled. I argued only ignorance devotes itself to elementary attitude, like woman is the moon and man the … Continue reading →

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Jacaranda (An Etude)

Posted on July 2, 2018 by sputterpub

The legend of the Jacaranda tree was told to me one Saturday in June. I loved committing it to memory; by 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, I knew the tale as if it were my own. I swallowed Amazon mythology, … Continue reading →

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National Anthem

Posted on October 27, 2017 by sputterpub

When I was young, my father musicked me (by vinyl records and his reel-to-reel) with opera, Broadway tunes and symphony, in folksongs and their singalong appeal, and Souza marches played by Army bands, with jazz and ragtime, blues and their … Continue reading →

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Three (Non)Wishes

Posted on August 26, 2016 by sputterpub

A deathless life and wealth beyond compare and never laboring: these are the three conditions legends say we would repair, if granted wishes. Immortality or gold is first, the other next, and work- avoidance makes the third gratuity. Then fables … Continue reading →

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More on Myth

Posted on August 18, 2016 by sputterpub

Once upon an ancient time ago, men were just as primitive as now. Hormonally impelled to fight and show the women who’s in charge, they monkeyed how to raise a god reflective of their need: to make a masculine mythology, … Continue reading →

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