Title image showing subtly melancholy black-and-white close-up of an Asian woman with her eyes closed, her short, glossy dark hair obscuring half of her face. The photograph is superimposed over a grayed-out LGBT pride flag, and blow the portrait in red letters is an inscription reading, "Sincerely, The Card You Jokers Like to Play." [Photo editing done by Ahsoka Jackson.]

Your Idea of Love—A November Poem

I very much understand if for ethical or other reasons you don’t feel comfortable reading explicit material. However, I would ask and recommend that you read the Author’s Note I have here in order to gain understanding of the project’s purpose, and also to find out an important statistic that you may not have heard before.

Close-up shot of Keanu Reeves in first John Wick film, dressed in his trademark black clothing. The lighting taking on a hue of blue, gray, and green. A laceration arcs downwards across his nose and left cheek, his hair slightly ruffled. Locks of it shield his left eye, but his right is clearly visible. He appears to be focused on his next opponent off-frame. Wick appears unbothered by the injury, his gaze showing a calm yet also dogged, intense, and borderline haunting sense of relentlessness.

7 Shots—A John Wick Tribute

Both poetry and fiction are more difficult for me than blogging, which is tiring enough with the preexisting drains from health issues and familial demands, so that gives you an idea of how significant it is to make that choice of scrounging together the time and energy and creativity for a piece. But when I thought about this series, I knew it absolutely deserved that level of acknowledgment, no two ways about it.