Down with Bowne (The Uncut Version)

I was transformed from what I witnessed from my window. Original story published on The Environment: https://medium.com/the-environment/adjusting-our-inward-and-outward-senses-to-the-rhythms-of-nature-bdb393960a75?sk=4bdae89f3f3f243202ca11172ca5529c

We must do more than pray our way around the inconvenience. Original story was published here on The Masterpiece: https://medium.com/the-masterpiece/thou-shall-not-interrupt-mass-with-the-messy-randomness-of-death-c0e0a0436d6e?sk=32eebce00d448d759ada2f573236dbb2 . The image comes from St. Andrew’s Catholic Church, located in Roanoke, Virginia, USA. Link.

What were we doing ‘hangin’ round’ in Colorado, anyway? That became the catchphrase for the entire trip. Whenever we got into trouble or tent blew off a mountain, and I had to trek across the tundra to Walmart for a broom to use as a tent pole or those damned Mormons — no marmots were attacking us for our Snickers bars, and one of us would say, “You know, what are we doing hangin’ ‘round?” The ori...

Chapter 31 illustrates the upside-down world of morality in the Antebellum South and the center of Huck’s moral crossroads

Walter Bowne and his daughter Nancy Bowne discuss what makes a great cover song, and review a few from their growing list of "deep cuts." Hope you enjoy! 

Family photo albums are cunning deceivers. That wasn’t what I expected from a visit to my mother’s, but that’s what lingered. Of course, I didn’t share this revelation with my mother because no single criticism sticks to her children — even when we’re slathered in Gorilla glue. Why should the family album not place the same emphasis on conflict and crisis as the great novels and the famous scores...

A short story from “Overland to the World”. What did every woman want? What does every woman want? Is there such an answer? Why did she feel so dumb, Eleanor thought, in the company of men? Westminster Abbey . Image by Alfred Derks from Pixabay .

A Dug-Out of One's Own: High-cost creative writing programs are having difficulty competing with zero-cost jails. The original essay was published here on MuddyUm: https://medium.com/muddyum/an-ivy-league-lit-scout-offers-a-confession-dd6cccd6d6c9?sk=17875f0e91ed98350817f997c2c9454f

Chapter 3: The Feast of an Innocent: Thaddeus should have retreated, but irrational hope was always one of his cardinal vices.

Chapter 2 — A London Lad Learns Loads of Loathsome Facts

In the first chapter of this serialised novel, "Confronting More Than One Gunman," the reader is introduced to our young hero who feels like a stranger in a strange land. Thank you Hudba od umelca GoodBMusic z lokality Pixabay for the music, as well as Wikipedia Commons for Union Jack and Thaddeus . 

‘We don’t need your judgement or your jealousy’, Wally says.

Literary magazines beg authors to return to writing for free.

The Judgement Zone: The wide windows offer onlookers field of vision for critiques

A sonnet by Walter Bowne. Composed in 1991. Age: 22. 

Walter Bowne speaks of swans and Nature and instincts when thinking if Bryant's poem as he walks with his wife in Cape May, NJ

Written in 1991 by Walter Bowne. So it must be emo bad, right? 

Composed in 1994 to his girlfriend, and soon wife, Mary Jane Murphy. 

Walter Bowne confronts Grey Mr. Death in the North of England while being a little Morrissey in 1990. 

What grammar has taught me. 

A poem for Nancy when she was 9 months old in 2002.

A free verse poem. 

Never trust your inner navigator when traveling in the wilderness. Scenic Jersey and Arizona are quite different —  scenic in Arizona may just mean death. A simple line on Google maps, in Arizona, doesn’t necessarily mean quicker — just potentially — the end of the line for your family.

The Very Best in Show. 

Happy Every Day, Madeline, Five, Twenty-Five, or Eighty-Five