Midnight Hatter's Box of Words

Sometimes pretentious yet mostly brilliant. Mostly.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

A Fond Farewell... If Only Temporarily

Hey friends,


I feel that it's time for me to end the Blogspot chapter of my life. I just don't have the time to run multiple blogs and such while working on my multiple creative ventures. You can still find me throwing everything I do up on Tumblr, so never fear. Maybe I'll come back and drop more book/comic/liquor reviews here once my life calms down. Whenever that happens.

Cheers!
-Stephan

Monday, December 20, 2010

We Traveled the World in Six Weeks

Che cosa รจ in su?


Funny when you hear an awkward translation of something.

Anyway, I'm just posting a pretty well-revised poem from a while back. I think it's better than the original, but it seems a little disjointed to me still. Maybe I'm just too close to this case. Take a look.

We Traveled the World in Six Weeks

The last drag

of my Camel Light left

a sweet flavor on my lips –

like the honey-gold sand of Giza

crinkled underfoot when paced headlong

into the Egyptian sunset.

It’s always sunset in Egypt.


We gathered coins for kapparot

to atone for that night in October,

swung our sin into them

in exchange for a soft pack,

and smoked all but one.

I handed the cigarette

to that sultry brunette. She shared the night

air with me, far from crowd. She masked

the smoke with candy-flavored lip gloss,

the kind she wore on our first kiss.


She wears my green sweatshirt

as a life vest. I take a long sip of Newcastle

and let go of her hand.

In the hour of a heartbeat

I remember the Millennium

Bridge from the hotel room upon the Tyne:

city lights buzzing, glinting around the glowing arcs.

She and I never walked the streets

at night. Her nude silhouette danced in

and out of those arcs like the shadow

of a detached retina until

sunrise in London.


I turn back and peek

into a blacked out room:

pale flesh on pale flesh, each freckle beaming.

He is there – taking candy off her lips.

Then I walk away, leaving

the green sweatshirt to swim alone

on the hardwood floor.


That's all I've got for today. Happy holidays!

-Steph

Monday, November 29, 2010

Sorry for the Delay


So I'm doing this thing now where I take writing prompts and then I draw dinky little one-page comics based on them. I try not to take longer than an hour or two from concept to color, but I didn't have my scanner at home this weekend (Thanksgiving y'all!) so I'm juts now uploading my first one.
More to follow soon.

(New Reviews tomorrow too)

-Steve