#eric amling

(The Poetry Foundation)

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 324

Short story: The Emptiness of Anger by D. A. D’Amico, listened to on the Centropic Oracle podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.

Poem: Rx by Eric Amling, listened to on the Poem of the Day podcast, from July 2017. Highly Recommended.

Essay: Measuring the Age of the Grand Canyon, listened to on the Skeptoid podcast, from July 2017. Recommended.

What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?

The Ray Bradbury Challenge: Day 173

Short story: The Memory Ward by Wendy Nikel, from Nature magazine, June 2016.

Poem: Rx by Eric Amling, listened to on the Poetry Foundation’s Poetry Now podcast, from February 2017. Recommended.

Essay: Building for a New Life by Mark Breeze, listened to on the BBC’s Four Thought podcast, from February 2017. Highly Recommended.

What is the Ray Bradbury Challenge?

In a pedigree of wildflowers I reach down to pick up my magenta piece of gum. This is the opening thought to the rest of my life. Like a transparent diary the narrator says, “You are like other people in some ways,” “Yet you may not like the same foods as other people.” Here is Amling witnessing the evolution of the snack chip. Here is Amling witnessing commercials with burger zooms. The reflection of a couple making love in the glass coffee table, a wardrobe of Santa Fe distortion in an otherwise powder blue rec room. In the empty ashtray I haphazardly place my semen as I minored in Art and great amounts of energy consumed in the production of mental life had me scared if zero relevance looked in a mirror it would see relevance stepping out of Siamese horizons to ensure my vacancy reducing time to a garnished ingredient.