Category Archives: Anthology

My collected writings and those of family members.

This Is Stag Country

Posted on April 26, 2018 by JMN

Lamont Ledbetter buys the jerseys for the Birch Sidewinders every year. Well, not him personally, but the Stockmen’s Bank over in Birch where he’s president. We’ll play Birch at homecoming. Tuck Ledbetter is a starting corner back for the Sidewinders, … Continue reading →

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Social Math — UK

Posted on April 25, 2018 by JMN

The venerable Henry Purslane Chichester, Sir Alistair Chichester’s ancestor, is much remembered in Chichesterton-Upon-Hogg for having wrested Henry’s Bog from the Burlingame clan in 1427. (A diehard remnant of the Burlingames still refer to it as “Burlingame’s Bog.”) Henry’s Bog … Continue reading →

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Written in the 70s — Góngora

Posted on April 25, 2018 by JMN

Góngora – Mallarmé – Joyce Hopkins and the Arabs under threat, constant, of the blade sweetened whetted-sweet blade who self-denied the host second-chanced fall the same weak one, none such weaker language tongue on verge (of) tongue simply rung toward … Continue reading →

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Written in the 70s — Formalism

Posted on April 25, 2018 by JMN

FORMALISM…. finger any one food and say, ‘That’s what does it.’” What does is it his mind, the life-shaper. The main struggle in my life is for form — its own form. Definition; delimitation of boundaries. How necessary is solitude, … Continue reading →

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From Memory

Posted on April 23, 2018 by JMN

“In Memory of W. B. Yeats,” poem by W. H. Auden, poets.org This poem has several “movements,” like a symphony. I marvel at its discursive tone — “You were silly like us” — until the last stanza, where it becomes … Continue reading →

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This Is Stag Country

Posted on April 23, 2018 by JMN

Fay Dawne Burmeister was valedictorian the year Boog Jeeters got his lacerated kidney in the game against Horne. When Boog was born, Lonnie wanted to call him Booger. Can you feature that? Booger Jeeters. Reba wouldn’t have it, said no … Continue reading →

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Social Math — UK

Posted on April 23, 2018 by JMN

Sir Alistair Chichester is in the habit of quaffing two pints of bitter at The Thane of Thoth every afternoon from 3 to 4 p.m., excepting Sundays. Each pint costs a quid tuppence. (Sir Alistair, of course, is indifferent to … Continue reading →

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Written in the 70s — Mistery

Posted on April 22, 2018 by JMN

mistery … (Eliot) “In the figure of the monster from outer space, the freakish, the ugly and the predatory all converge — and provide a fantasy target for righteous bellicosity to discharge itself, and for the aesthetic enjoyment of suffering … Continue reading →

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From Memory

Posted on April 22, 2018 by JMN

“Dover Beach,” poem by Matthew Arnold, https://www.poetryfoundation.org Penned by a Victorian on his honeymoon! This is hardly a celebratory poem, but I get from it what the French call a “morne plaisir,” a gloomy satisfaction. Its somber music moves me, … Continue reading →

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This Is Stag Country

Posted on April 22, 2018 by JMN

Carlis McElroy was captain of our Lady Stags softball team her senior year. She had to stop pitching when she injured her rotator cuff. Bobbi Gail thinks that’s when she got pregnant with Mardel Spelvin. Mardel’s taking classes in Kinesiology … Continue reading →

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