"And lo! from out the smoke
I saw the grim and clanking skeleton
Of the dead dog, licked bare to the white bones,
Run as alive. With skull revert, and jaws
That may not cease to move, but make no sound,
He flees for ever o'er the startled earth,
A terror and a sign."

--Balder

"Even the simplest journey was only the superficial evidence--the diagram--of another, more difficult one." --M John Harrison, The Course of the Heart (1992)


    "The 200-Year Spree"

The drum upon the ear
of words to no near goal,
less welcome than the rain
upon a stranded stroller.

A kind of empty grief
powers these monologues.
The voice will not relent,
nor lapse for more than moments.


Black- "psychology" (2078)

1. Nh3 d5
2. g3 c6
3. Bg2 e5
4. d4 e4
5. O-O Be7
6. f3 Nf6
7. fxe4 Nxe4
8. e3 Nd7
9. Nd2 Nf6
10. Nf4 Bg4
11. Qe1 Qd7
12. h3 Bf5
13. g4 Bg6
14. Nd3 Bd6
15. Nf3 O-O-O
16. Ne5 Qc7
17. b3 h5
18. g5 Nxg5
19. Nxg6 fxg6
20. c4 Ne4
21. Nf4 dxc4
22. bxc4 b6
23. h4 Bxf4
24. Rxf4 Re8
20. c4 Ne4
21. Nf4 dxc4
22. bxc4 b6
23. h4 Bxf4
24. Rxf4 Re8
25. hxg5 Nxg5
26. Qf1 Qd7
27. d5 h4
28. dxc6 Qe6
29. c5 Kb8
30. cxb6 axb6
31. Qa6 1-0