Handmade Wooden Side-table

Tools Machine:  Jointer PlanerPanel sawTable sawBand saw Mitre saw Router table Disc Sander Hand machine:  Domino JoinerBiscuit Joiner Palm Sander Nail gun Hand tools: Japanese saw Chisels Mallet T bevel T square  Material Red oakMaple Walnut Wood glue Wood filler (golden oak)Wood finish (Polyurethane, semi-gloss) The Experimenting Stages While everyone else turned to the lathe, I chose dovetails.  ‘Why are you still making joints? Have you not done...

Clock

Its beats and strikes, ticks and tocks,Imprisoned humanity with many locks. Each halt and every pause,Sentenced man to die of the unnatural cause. The ever-present commanding hands ——Chime the toll of the Mortal Ends.

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No He opened his mouth  But no word came out  He gasped for air like a drowning person  But all was futile  He was coughing blood and choking on blood and smearing blood and dying in blood He saw a shadow approaching, slowly, apprehensively, with a tint of remorse and moroseness He then succumbed to...

Drawing

Do you see The intersecting me? Every corner I encounter I turn and flee Forming shapes of V And even Z. Wondering in the ever twisting sea If you dare opening to doors to the other worlds I am the key. I command you to be on your knee Doesn't matter if your pronouns are...

Shadow

She accompanies me to dine, She is neither human nor divine.  She dances with me in the ball, She embraces me when I fall.  Anywhere I go she will follow —  My shadow.

A “Major” Lecturer — Parody of Robert Frost’s A Minor Bird

A “Major” Lecturer I have wished a lecturer would walk away, And not preach in the auditorium every Tuesday and Thursday;  Have made up my mind to skip the monologue for sure When it seemed as if I could bear no more.  The fault “must” partly have been in me.  The lecturer was “not” to...

Happy Birthday, Yvonne – 2017

It is not like the vow we made in the flames to remember The flickering sparks ignited on the 5th of November. It is not like the oath we took in the parades to defend Our motherland from the 4th of July till the very end. It is not grand, But it is in September....