Updated: Nov 23, 2025
Today’s Ezraku inspired by Senan Molony’s “Helen of Joyce.”
What the Hell’s an Ezraku? Answer here.
“Stephen Dedalus, displeased and sleepy, leaned his arms on the top of the staircase and looked coldly at the shaking gurgling face that blessed him, equine in its length, and at the light untonsured hair, grained and hued like pale oak.”
In Stephen’s Mixed Metaphor of Mulligan
Face, equine in length; hued hair like pale oak:
Wooden horse, Troy’s towers in flame and smoke.
- Oct 11, 2025
Updated: Oct 25, 2025
Today’s Hemingway Half-Dozen Prose Poem:
Darkest sky,
Deepest sigh,
Gloomsday’s Nigh.
(Art from Dave Gibbons’ & Alan Moore’s Watchmen)
- Oct 7, 2025
This is Ithaca #1
Why does he read Ulysses by James Joyce?
It is the only novel worth his heed.
What cause or defect led to this odd choice?
He never chose, he chased the longest lead.
Was his pursuit begun without deep thought?
Thought may be too high a speed for this fool.
Are racing words all this guy’s got to trot?
With metaphors, he’s not the sharpest tool.
Are there more defects than too slow, too dull?
Too many to count (he’s bad at math too).
What other skills and strengths are void and null?
Far more than two, he scores low through and through.
Why with his folly this much insistence?
The fool’s one wisdom is his persistence.