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.
The decades plangent, winter’s night, ancient youth;
I watched occultation as the sun’s corona snapped; the initial eclipse, revelation by the blackboard, fell during Jimmy Carter’s reality.
Valkyries whirred through marmoreal heights, the
aurochs of Christiania, scooped orbs of febrile rocks.
Totems hermitic, thunder eggs of stumbling youth,
reincarnations argent.
Past mages’ mouths sealed now with wixtax, sires
driving their pickups into the bardo, in the alder woods a hinged homunculus burrowed.
JF – 5/11/19
A drawing, based on Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, I made when I was eight, nine or so.
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