The Comet's Flame

I have been experimenting with sonnets. Here’s one that I wrote… You grace unused halls of my dismal mind. I ask you to dance with me in my dreams, And, though you hesitate, you don’t decline, As sunlight falls ’round us in shimm’ring streams. Does cold hard fact begin where visions end? Am I fully [...]

Formless thoughts are swarming in my head. I wish they would congeal into something tangible So I can accomplish my goal Of writing things down before I go to bed. But even if an idea materialized In the primordial mush that is my mind, I don’t think I could find A way to make it [...]

Don’t panic! The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is available to help you survive and succeed in a sometimes-chaotic universe… … at least that’s the story in Douglas Adams’s enjoyable book, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (fortunately, here in our real universe we have the Bible, an “instructions manual” far more trustworthy than the [...]