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| Thomas Emmett Mueller earned a BA in Philosophy with a minor in Classical Languages and an M.Ed. from Ohio University. An educator for 30 years in Michigan, he retired to Florida and has undertaken the serious study of contemporary poetry. His work has been featured in The Detroit News and hard copy magazines such as Maelestrom, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Stark Raving Sanity, Outsider, Strange Horizons, Over The Back Fence, and a British magazine--The Argotist. He is also selectively published in a number of online e-zines. His newest book, Sign After Sign, will be available in the spring of 2007. Thomas has been a featured reader at the St. Petersburg Times Reading Festival and the Austin International Poetry Festival in Austin, Texas. Several of his poems appear in the Austin Festival anthology Di-Verse-City. He is Poetry Contest Editor for Mindfire Renewed, Associate Editor for PoetWorks Press, and has hosted several online poetry seminars, study groups and forums, is the current co-President of the Florida Poets and Artists Guild in Brandon, Florida, and is Associate Editor for TinyWords.com, an online subscription publication. |
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| Snared In Hindustan Old Yogi's legs grow weary of pretzeled lotus squats. All that he cares about has narrowed or dried. He's sick of being a man. Reincarnational doctrine has him convinced that if he prays with sufficient piety and devotion, Vishnu will transport his soul to a desired realm. Divine interventional imploring is a piece of curried rice-cake for Yogi, so, in the snap of a cobra's strike, he becomes a magpie hen with perfect plumage. Perched high in a Peepal tree, spring melodies boil her throat. Courtship dances and frequent matings are delightful novelties. Fashioning a nest of thorny twigs, however, causes calamitous beak-chafing and egg-laying anguish leaves her squawking for vaginal analgesics. At no stage are the six hatchlings adorable. Their gaping nebs become insatiable torments of emptiness. Our frazzled bird, lice-ridden and molting, would gladly retreat to miserable manhood, but no magpie chants, "OM MANI PADME"; no birds interlace legs in supplication to Krishna. --Thomas Emmett Mueller |
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| For everthing you have missed in life, you have gained something else. --Rene' Descartes |
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| Sign After Sign To Be Released In The Spring Of 2007 |
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| Upcoming Book Releases |
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| When I Was A Child Southern Breezes Portals For Better Or For Worse |