Some recent faves -- these images also appear on my newTumbl blog -- https://cmd2019.newtumbl.com/. I found all these images at newTumbl.)

Some recent faves -- these images also appear on my newTumbl blog -- https://cmd2019.newtumbl.com/. I found all these images at newTumbl.)

Some recent faves -- these images also appear on my newTumbl blog -- https://cmd2019.newtumbl.com/. I found all these images at newTumbl.)

Asa Butterfield, from the genre of "celebrity fakes", "fan art" -- HOT STUFF! (this image also appears on my newTumbl blog -- https://cmd2019.newtumbl.com/. I found this image at newTumbl.)

Five books by me, Carl Miller Daniels. All five are available at Amazon.

never the two shall part

waldorf salad and the greatness of apples.
the aroma of
fresh blueberry muffins. a tiny droplet
of blood on the tip of a finger, poked
with a raspberry thorn.
**
he sat alone in his room,
listing the things that
had made him cry.
he was 26 years old today,
no plans, sexy, naked,
tall, blond, blue-eyed:
why should there be no
plans for a guy like him?
what was wrong with him,
fundamentally?
**
he clomped around
in the empty gymnasium,
waiting for someone
who never showed up.
**
the way sexy naked young men
frolicked in
the mountain stream: the
easy laughter, the
smirks of joy.
**
he'd been one
of those sexy naked
stream-frolicking young
men, once.
**
now,
he notices the
veins on the back
of his hands,
the soft hairs
behind his knuckles.
**
running naked
through the forest
at midnight, he
falls in love
with the fur
on the back
of an oak tree.
**
they embrace: it is
an art,
not a science.

--Carl Miller Daniels (This poem appeared in Whisper & Scream Magazine, Vol 1, issue 3, July 1, 2010.)

quick change -- approx 9 seconds (This video also appears on my newTumbl blog -- https://cmd2019.newtumbl.com/. I found this video at newTumbl.)