According to the Book of Job, God and Satan seem to find each other's company most entertaining. I wonder what they discuss besides how much more misery poor Job can tolerate?

Some of us were already thinking about the Odyssey a long time ago . . . And yes, this version challenges the original. dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol...

Meaning of Life David Rogers On a morning when the most important decision I had to make was to have more coffee or not I discovered the meaning of life is to always have more coffee

A Wind David Rogers after Edward Hopper's Ground Swell Earth breathes I breathe Some new creature finds its breath stretches wings and flies

A novel is like a maze. At least one way in and one way out. If it's a good book, you're a little tempted to retrace your steps. Or a lot tempted.

Deus ex Machina Or Univac and Epicac Great advances are promised by the machine gods: miraculous increase in production of CO2 and nightmares worthy of digital art Intelligence has always been an art but rarely so artificial and so toxic+

POEM David Rogers Life is memory Maze drawn in wet sand Written on paper fragile as robins' eggs Find more paper a way out or further in Keep walking

Coffee Cup David Rogers It shares the oldest shape human hands have made: the pot vase bucket basket cradle: Vessel that becomes itself by giving up everything it has

Fortune David Rogers Moonlight moves on water Planchette No hand to guide it

Hello friends. Looking for your next book? The Well and the Spiral is on sale for 99 cents. www.amazon.com/Well-Spiral-...

HYLAS AND THE NYMPHS David Rogers Some see danger in beauty Others find beauty in danger

Why and how Hylas and the Nymphs had its moment of controversy.

BRANCUSI'S GOLDEN BIRDS David Rogers Remember the present Live in the future Forget the past Hear birdsong and cat purr Hold everything you want in one hand Let the rest go The present is an egg left by the phoenix Do you really think you know what's inside

This AI stuff is crazy. I ran a review someone gave one of my books through an AI detector--or so it claims to be. But it flagged one sentence as AI-generated because it used the word "because." The "detectors" are useless, I think. You know a human wrote it if you saw it being written. That's it.

INQUIRY David Rogers Why do we make so many STOP signs and so few GO signs What do they hope to keep us from finding STOP signs pretend they are all alike but if they succeeded we would need only one The rest distract us from the final stop As if any word could mean the same thing twice

INSCRIPTION David Rogers I write my oldest name in wet cement Rain falls Now rain knows my name

HERE'S WHY David Rogers Take a cue from Andy Warhol I would like to explain but cannot Cat sits curls a tail stares at the unseen Eveything is kinetic Be famous for fifteen minutes More than fifteen is exhausting I am going to lasso a supernova If I do not come back please water my plants

Flies in the News by David Rogers Today I think of King Lear the mad monarch who had yet wisdom enough to resign and Gloucester who said gods kill us like flies for sport I see no gods but certain human ideas of sport are hideous enough I envy small animals who have wings to fly away

Dollar Store David Rogers Here you find Nancy Drew Judy Blume Wonder Woman crossword puzzles the Holy Bible all on one shelf each only a buck and a quarter Holiness and super powers priced to sell I guess laws of supply and demand apply everywhere Carolyn Keene must be a centenarian by now

Hey folks, my story "Outside the Station" is here. It's partly inspired by A.J. Deutsch's classic story "A Subway Named Mobius." I always wonder what happens to people on the train. Here's one possible answer. nauvoo.supply/products/inf...

My poems in great company in Unlikely Stories Six: www.unlikelystories.org/content/shel...

SCROLL David Rogers Once upon a time scrolls were round Nouns that rolled carried sacred narrative to the future To scroll is now a verb to call the court jester commercial clown one palimpsest after another on infinite electric parchment Come Let us scroll together phys.org/news/2026-03...

LANDSCAPE Shadow forms a mask makes copies of faces seen in mirrors Sun slowly moves northward

This New Yorker cartoon rewards a closer look.

ISIS David Rogers All parts of the human body may be imitated Only some can be replaced Toe and finger pry open shells and hearts Hearts open palms Prints copy fingers Severed fragments of soul grow back in new shapes

Irony: we have "No Kings" protests, which I totally support. Yet many of us cannot help feeling a bit jealous when the King visits. It's like bad cubic zirconia versus an actual well-cut diamond.

My poem "Icarus" in the magnificent journal Thimble. I'm honored to have my poem in such great company. Visual artists note--it's a very visually appealing journal. Give it a look. www.thimblelitmag.com/2026/02/07/i...

SUN, MOON, STARS David Rogers On a clear day you can see what's right in front of you

POEM David Rogers The poem was about what the poet saw outside the window so I went outside looked in and saw the windiw is a lens outside uses to project its inner thoughts on a world neither in or out

M31 David Rogers I have never counted to a million but I have seen two and a half million years flash by in less than a second