granite flesh in dream— stir’d by voices in peripheral eyes— flinch and freeze flinch and freeze— blind palms to invisible walls top to bottom side to side front to back finding no way out— despair’d back to stone and frozen orbs— till virgin curiosity approaches nearer and nearer only to gasp in brief horror …at a wink
woodlands scorch’d to ash beasts ambush’d to annihilation compost’d soil somehow be brought abed of newer but divergent woods of newer but divergent beasts of future vigilant scientific eyes
It was that time of the year again, when the world of the nerd and the curious descended upon our town and flooded the Gas Lamp and Convention Center— along with all the local hotels and restaurants. My wife and I have been doing this since the first “Blade” movie. We missed out on tickets only twice during that time. Let us share some of our experience.