For years, I wandered in a world of dark In search of a happiness in my life. My mind petulantly tossed like the Ark In a raging storm of unyielding strife. A beacon light is what you were for me, Drawing me to the long sought-for green Isle. I set my sails on the straight Read More …
Category: Blog
These are random thoughts about topics that interest me — including books, rock and roll, philosophy, culture and daily life. I update it whenever the mood strikes me, shooting for at least once a week but often more frequently than that. I welcome your comments on anything I may discuss here and, when appropriate, will reply as promptly as possible.
God Speed
Re Main We who are alone and godless Enlist your aid. We beg of you, groaning, moaning, mourning, To send your troops: Hail Osiris! Flying past, chariot aflame, guiding Halley’s comet! Beg Him turn course crossing the eons of moral decay Commandeering His charging troops – storms for neo-astronomers. If this alliance be too weak Read More …
About My Poetry
As a poet, I’ve been pretty sporadic over the years, going through periods of high productivity when I was very young, to occasional bursts in midlife and very occasional drips as I’ve gotten older. In building this website, I’d intended to include most of the poetry I have ever written. My recollection was that the Read More …
Bold Love
I would not be so bold to paint my love As if there could a palette infinite Be, or colors bright, rich or deep enough To something more than base approximate. Nor could I stoop to notes or song or phrase Or sculpture, all just variants of sand That marks with airborne brush strokes sifted Read More …
A Report Card on My Stories
If you’re thinking about reading any of my short stories or purchasing one of my books on Amazon.com, here’s something you might find useful: my own assessment of the merits of individual works, graded from A through F, where A++ would be Blood Meridian or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy or The Old Man and the Read More …
On readers of audiobooks
I read a lot of books as audiobooks. There is an inherent danger, for want of a better word, in that, because it is all but impossible to find a reader whose tones and inflections permit you to interpret the words and phrases of the author and appreciate his or her prose style in the Read More …
Welcome
Welcome to jimslusher.com.I launched this website to promote my creative writing and find a place to store material I’ve written over the years where someone might chance upon it while wandering the vast forest of the Internet. My literary legacy may be slight, but to the degree possible in what remaining years I have, I want Read More …