Well, I do mean to smile about water;the solution was never ‘You oughtatake more than one glass!'Whysay notif you really did not want to know?Rewind the tape, pleasefast-forward to whereyou losewine-addledflat on your ass! © Experimentsinfiction 2021, All Rights Reserved I must be a glutton for punishment... Tonight, Lisa is hosting dVerse Poetics, and has asked us... Continue Reading →

'Laundry, laundry, still wars and laundry;nothing else holds fashion.'Misquoted from Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (Act V, Scene ii) Those of us with children, or at least thosewho've ever laundered for themwill knowlaundry accumulates exponentiallywith the birth of each additional child.This is not a complaint, nor any lackof gratitude, but a simple statement of fact. My... Continue Reading →

I’m not afraid to diefor when I go, I knowI’ll be in such good company up there.Up where?For the Kingdom of Heaven is withinalso without the three women I admire mosthave already joined that holy hostwithin me and without meI am made of lightno body can contain meyou dwell in that light with meand so I... Continue Reading →

A painter without a brush, that's what I'd like to be; a painter without a brushor any paint: to paint with words alonethe things I see, without too much of artifice,without restraint. I'm not sure I could paint youa sunset sky in poetry, and anywayyou know the way it goes:all crimsons, lilacs, pinks,the softer shades... Continue Reading →

This being human isanything but being,simply being, is the one thingwe do not know how to do:we can be male or femaleblack or whiteyoung or old or somewhere in betweengay or straightbisexual, transgender Left or Rightmasked-up or anti-vaxxerrich or poora big shot or a loserbut we cannot seem to seethat we cause ourselves a whole worldload... Continue Reading →

Ten years since the tsunamibroke upon Japantearing apart familiesnot all saved, who ran: on this day a tearfor his daughter ten years gonewishing she was here. © Experimentsinfiction 2021, All Rights Reserved This morning I read about the ten-year anniversary of the tsunami which hit Japan costing 18,500 lives and triggering a nuclear meltdown at... Continue Reading →