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Bent Willows Ⅱ

Granny Kanipe feeds the cat

Mar 26, 2018

Bent Willows Ⅱ

Mar 26, 2018

Happy Container Ship, Inc.

Sailing into your holiday dreams . . .

Nov 25, 2024

Happy Container Ship, Inc.

Nov 25, 2024

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Don’t Fear the Reaper

Madness, Dash & Dine

Nov 17, 2024

Don’t Fear the Reaper

Nov 17, 2024

Baby Spaghetti

a bit of free-metered verse from the not-yet-written collection: Pity Party for Pissy Professors

Sep 3, 2024

A pot full of rich red sauce with lots of bits afloat and a thin white spoon stirring. No actual babies were harmed in the production of this poem.

Sep 3, 2024

Encouragement for Dr. Art

in the style of Ogden Nash from the not-yet-written collection: Pity Party for Pissy Professors

Sep 2, 2024

Encouragement for Dr. Art

Sep 2, 2024

Will Kellogg, You Bastard!

for Charlie

Sep 8, 2023

a batch of cupcakes, tossed in the bin. “Yay!” printed on the wrapper of one

Sep 8, 2023

Size 6.5, narrow

Ygrova had guessed accurately days before. She knew how the stars would soon spin into formation. “Hmm,” she’d responded, scrying the…

Oct 30, 2022

A shop window mannequin, her lovely female form adorned in coral beaded and bejeweled finery against a background of magnificent costumery. In the foreground sits a glittering crystal ball filled with colors

Oct 30, 2022

Papa don’t preach . . .

. . . in his sleep!

Dec 18, 2021

Papa don’t preach . . .

Dec 18, 2021

A tale of love and annihilation

There was a full box of Krispy Kreme donuts in the other room . . . was.

Dec 16, 2021

a close-up image of freshly glazed Krispy Kreme donuts in a box. Yum!

Dec 16, 2021

Sometimes People Leave You Halfway Through the Woods

A friend wrote about his buddy’s death and here’s how I responded:

Oct 21, 2021

Sometimes People Leave You Halfway Through the Woods

Oct 21, 2021

Regarding This Rainbow 🌈

Brian King, friend and fellow writer, is dead at 25. The last two and a half of those years he lived out in the open -- well, as openly as…

Sep 4, 2021

Regarding This Rainbow 🌈

Sep 4, 2021

Summertime Godfather’s Carnival Ride

a view from the Peter Pan section

Aug 21, 2021

Screenshot of a partial SMS message between two friends. Q:“Hey man are you and Lisa taking Bethany off to college tomorrow?” A: “Tuesday”

Aug 21, 2021

Blockt!

. . . in record time

Jan 23, 2021

Blockt!

Jan 23, 2021

Italian Wedding Cake

as promised . . .

Apr 21, 2020

a 3-layered cake with white cream cheese icing, dusted with chopped pecans

Apr 21, 2020

Oak & Vine

(on the occasion of the wedding of Eddie & Carolyn, April 18th 2020)

Apr 19, 2020

a black & white woodcut of an oak tree

Apr 19, 2020

Love Midst the Storm

Here is the wedding cake we made yesterday for the wedding (today) of my friends Eddie Hostetler and Carolyn Dienes.

Apr 18, 2020

a scratch-made, 3-layer coconut and pecan cake with cream cheese icing, topped with chopped pecans

Apr 18, 2020

Published in
Haiku Hub

Lydia *

Iodine ideas. Noble visions twist, reform. Novel and sublime.

Feb 4, 2020

iodine crystals form in a watch glass

Feb 4, 2020

Apropos of Nothing

bits and pieces for your Thanksgiving enjoyment . . .

Nov 28, 2019

a roast turkey with bacon, crab legs, claws, and tentacles

Nov 28, 2019

Published in
Our Human Family

2019 Ultimate Thanksgiving How-To Guide

. . . chock-full of more 🦃 day thoughts, plans, & recipes than one could shake a drumstick at!

Nov 22, 2019

A Norman Rockwell painting of a pilgrim man in the stocks with a sign, “ye glutton” affixed

Nov 22, 2019

Shriek (in secunda parte)

arcebant aegram

Oct 31, 2019

the face of a nun, frightened and anguishing in the night

Oct 31, 2019

Eric Griggs

Eric Griggs

Juxtaposeur, technical analyst, process engineer, poet wordsmith, INTJ, Anansi, MBTI certified practitioner & team-builder, certifiable fabulist & Uppity Queer™

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