Rusty Ring

"Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... how the world still dearly loves a cage."    Maude. – From lifelong fa...

Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil. Exodus 23:2 (Photo of Fudo Myō-ō statue courtesy of Wikimedia Commons and a g...

( Garlands of old man's beard [Usnea longissima], catching the winter sun at this specific moment of day.)

I practice the religion that suits me. The one that says I'm right and you're wrong. That I'm the ideal, and you the ...

Samuel Hoffenstein was my parents' poet-laureate, which explains why several of his anthologies dwelt upon a shelf in our house, al...