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Brian Dean Powers, Summer 2016
Originally posted on Word Fountain: My Voice Brian Dean Powers I always sound hoarse. Like a radio half-tuned to the station. It’s hard to make myself heard. I repeat myself often, every day. It’s hard to make myself heard. That’s the voice I have. I can’t converse in noisy places. Don’t ask me to speak…
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For the Man in the Museum, by David J. Bauman
For the details of why I am posting this here, you can review the last post. Let’s keep this simple. I’m sharing a couple of poems of mine that were published three years ago by Word Fountain, the Literary Magazine of the Osterhout Free Library. At that time I had no idea that I would…
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On Selecting Optics, by David J. Bauman
I am sometimes asked why I don’t post more of my poems here, and I think I’ve answered that question on this blog’s Poet bio, but to put it succinctly, if I publish it myself, even here on this little blog, most literary magazines will not want to publish it. Yes, works posted on blogs…
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Bio Updates
And by that title, I mean biography, not biology, of course. I’ve been trying to update my biology, but age and a bad knee are making for slow progress. As you have possibly seen in recent posts, this year I became the adopted father of a bouncing baby literary magazine. Actually, it’s no longer a…
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“Failing and Flying” by Jack Gilbert
Originally posted on Words … for the Time Being: Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth…
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Spring Birding, 2016
We moved here to North Eastern Pennsylvania in October, and got to do a bit of hiking about, local fields, tracks of woods along railroad tracks and we took visiting friends to Francis Slocum State Park in November and I even spent a little time alone on Christmas Day at Rickett’s Glen since the weather…
