Rat Prince: Act III
**Act III** _Should you a Rat to madness tease_ _Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Recantation" Dark as it was, he was sure it was him... ...the thick-rimmed glasses set in the owl-like face,...
Rat Prince: Act II
**Act II ** _Ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Pliny the Elder, _Naturalis Historia_ It had been three days - had it been so long? He was there again, back where it all started, laying on the hardwood floor of the...
Rat Prince: Act I
**Act I ** _Affirmant quidam inueniri aliquando rattum c __æ__ teris__maiorem, procerior & latiore corpora qui à cæteris otiofus alatur. Rattorum regem, appellant._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Konrad Gesner, _Historiæ Animalium_ It was just to take his...
Nervous Boys
_The innocent mansion of a panther's heart! It crumbles, tick-tick time drags it in Till now his arteries lag and now they start Reverence with the frigid gusts of sin. ** ** _ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Allen Tate, "Idiot" _Caleb was his sin and Caleb...
Hecho En Florida
_He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ George Orwell, _Animal Farm_ Anyone who has travelled that part of I-4 from Tampa to Orlando - a...
Forests of the Noonday Sun (Collab With Xax)
_Why, let the stricken deer go weep,_ _The hart ungalled play;_ _For some must watch, while some must sleep:_ _So runs the world away._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ William Shakespeare, _Hamlet_, Act III, Scene ii West of Asheville the Appalachians rise...
To Your Grave
_No doubt you have read of the Witches' Sabbath, and have laughed at the tales which terrified our ancestors; the black cats, and the broomsticks, and dooms pronounced against some old woman's cow. Since I have known the truth I have often reflected...
Bloom
_Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Vladimir Nabokov, _Mary_ When Dakota Tyree's mom, Lisa, who gave him the nickname _Cody_,_ _was still alive, and his dad Teddy...
Everything Goes Green (Parts I-III: Commission For Kybal Lutra)
_And in the day, when he shall walk abroad,_ _Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad_ _My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,_ _Shall with their goat-feet dance the antic hay..._ _\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\__ Christopher Marlowe,_Edward II_, Act I,...
Depths
_For whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves that we find in the sea_ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ E.E. Cummings, "maggie and milly and molly and may" **i.** Every beach in Florida has been mercilessly colonized - every beach in Florida...
The Dogs: Hath A Familiar Spirit
_Anyone who has ever lived in West Virginia, or even travelled through the state, can easily see what an ideal place it would be for ghosts._ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Ruth Ann Musick, _The Telltale Lilac Bush_ Moonshine is the drink of the mountaineer -...
The Dogs: Maketh the Day Dark
_One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more...