EVE
Adam and Eve created the world in six days five really because Adam took most of Saturday to recover from his Friday celebration during which he’d dreamed up pharaohs floods…
Two poems–“Lake” and “If”
IF If he knew he’d be dead by dark Tolstoy supposedly said he’d keep plowing which proves either he really liked to plow or else he was a bit off…
Innocent
My story "Innocent," pub'd in Inwood, Indiana's Fallow Ground issue and Teach. Write. Innocent by David Rogers If I say I was innocent of the crime for which I…
Wishes
You cannot tell how many lamps bottles coffee mugs jars vases are home to genies the ones who have learned to stay inside when the endless knocking begins The requirement…
Some of my poems, read on Visions with Voices
These folks always do a great job! http://visionswithvoices.com/davidsum2020/index.html
The Wheel Keeps Rolling
Read "Shadow of the Wheel" here--or on Page and Spine: https://www.pagespineficshowcase.com/david-rogers.html or hear it read, here: https://visionswithvoices.com/davidsum2019/index.html#shadowtext Shadow of the Wheel by David Rogers They say you can’t breathe the…
PICASSO AND MONET
Both could have painted pictures of UFOs but Monet's would have flown better in skies lurid with post-watercolor neo-expressionist pastels over crumbling cubist skyscrapers where nude aliens depart in flying…
Gojira
Gojira You don’t need translations in Gojira the original Japanese story of Godzilla to know it won’t matter how large Tokyo is when the monster wades from the ocean Even…
PYTHAGORAS
PYTHAGORAS He announces he’s created a new theorem his first in over twenty centuries It concerns the measurement of triangles in eleven-dimensional space The idea makes headlines but the reporters…