Author: Mark

Esoterica

The Vintage Tarot

I think I first started being interested in Tarot in Doug Gold’s basement about 1973 or 4. Back then there was only the Rider-Waite deck, these days there are a plethora to choose from. Being a bit of a geek I have designed my own version of the Rider-Waite deck

Dinner Lunch

Summery Pasta Salad

I love pasta salads, especially basic ones I can add to for special treats, such as flaked tuna or even diced up cold cuts (Pilar’s Summer Sausage comes to mind). If you are going to add tuna, hardboiled eggs or meat to the salad best to chill them first then

Poetry

Flight

Taste the wind,cast over landscapestorn and scoredby the talonsof a vulturerending graniteinto dustwhile silent screamsin jagged shardsflow through the bleaknessin your mind. Spread your arms,fingers stretchedand cry shrilllike nailson a chalkboardhead back and proudthen leaphigher than a houseto soar and bankthrough granite dustto the stars beyond. ml’23