Edgar Allan Poe cartoon made with trial version of Toon Boom software and other programs. Granted, the animation is a bit limited, but until two weeks ago, I had never tried to animate anything. I...

The bloodless grail surely passed here. Soul-distress and ambient angst combine with reptilian majesty through the translucent prism of the Portuguese Man-'o-War.

The room was crowded, somber, stale, dark. A wake? No Shiva! (and I'm not a Jew). The widow's look at me, a question mark. I didn't know them or what I should do. "And who are you?" I...

Straight Talk for High-Risk Children
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High Risk Children
By Reid Baer

My unipolar mother whistled past the graveyard
or more correctly groaned enviously...

This is the English translation of a small poem in Vietnamese Lục Bát form (6-8 form) written while longing for the return of a person who will never come back .
Em Về
Đêm nay...

This is the English translation of a small poem in Vietnamese Cấu Cảm Lục Bát form (Inetractive 6-8 form) on the impossible return of a beloved person. Em Về? Đêm nay chắc em lại...

This poem was inspired by past life memories. I was a man in that life and was killed by Union solders during the Battle of Antietam in 1862

Secular poem about a car parade: This poem from 2000 recently posted on the Academy of American Poets writers workshop received few comments, I am sorry to say. But I like the work, and here it is...

Religious and spiritual poem. A little on the light side about Angels I have seen--just one... An older and lighter poem about angels, this poem was written more than two summers ago, making the...