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Adalbert is a forum for me, to post ephemera, photography, poetry, occasional travel notes, and various spontaneous motions. Cover photo: Parsonage where my great-grandfather spent his early years. Taken near Liegnitz, Silesia, ca. 1870. The "xothique" portion of the web address is a nod to Clark Ashton Smith's fictional continent of Zothique.

Friday, July 27, 2018

Decennial Now

Ten years have drifted or dashed by, since my first blog post on this site. It's been real. 2008, when I began posting, had some outsized events; the global economic crash, the election of President Barack Obama in the U.S.; the Iraq War persisted, after the surge. Before, and since then, the globe has been engaged in a sort of drunkard's walk.

Above: Strange Life of Ivan Osokin, by P.D. Ouspensky. The novel revolved about the central enigma of spacetime. Ivan Osokin took a Mulligan, with the arrow of time...


Thursday, July 12, 2018

Twilight (poem), December 1995





Ann Erickson, of Guerneville, California, published this poem in the poetry magazine tight, Volume 6, Number 4, January, 1996.