PAGES:
an evolving table of contents
PORTAL
~ Welcome
~ Recent book covers
~ Site navigation tips
~ Artist Profile
PAGES (PORTAL dropdown tab)
~ The petalridge.com table of contents
PERSONAL (PORTAL dropdown tab)
~ A Quick 180 word life history
~ A Credo
~ PAQs
PING ME (PORTAL dropdown tab)
~ Contact me here
~ A gallery of banner images from the first petalridge site
PAPERBACK WRITER
~ Link to the MEMORY ADDICTS wing
~ Two minor archival Memory Addicts folders
~ Main page for the STALKING CRAWLROLLIES project:
availability info; pitch/description; reviews; gallery; plus a PDF of the whole book, free to view
PHOTOGRAPHY
~ Introductory feature, “FRONT WINDOWS,” showcasing 15-20 sample photographs
~ 11 and counting themed galleries; each gallery features another 15-25 images
POETRY
~ “My aesthetic map”: some brief introductory remarks
~ Four short sample folders (3-5 poems each from The Blue Nib chapbook, Mutt Spirituals, You Go In By The Gate That Isn’t There, and an MS in progress)
~ A sample light verse poem and a sample piece of juvenilia, to advertise the existence of other poetry folders housed elsewhere on the site
PLAYHOUSE
~ Four excerpts (including “The Pageant of the Flood") from my full-length play The Play of Gilgamesh. Licensed for production just as COVID hit by the UK distributor Silver Birchington Plays, it remains, for now, unproduced
~ The texts of two short plays, one published and the other seeking a choreographer/collaborator
~ Two “watch this space” pages scheduled for later
POTPOURRI
~ A main page with its own links to the dropdown pages, and an index to them
(Check that page to see this index in more detail than I offer below.)
PROSE PETALS (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)
~ Short Creative Nonfiction
[Looking at the Sky; Gulls & Crows; Indoctrination Training]
PIC LIT (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)
~ Poem/photography combos
[from Flap Over Tree Debris Island; Zoom Lens; China '92 poems]
PERIODICALS (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)
~ A list of the publications where my short form writing has appeared
PORTRAITS (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)
~ Pic lit self-portraits; self-penned, at least—not all the pics are my own
PERIPATETICS (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)
~ Travel writing/pieces about places
[China '92; Auvillar 2006; A Farewell to Romford]
PACK RAT (POTPOURRI dropdown tab)
~ Miscellanea
PUBLICATIONS
~ A list of my publicly available books, with ISBN numbers, dates, publishers, etc.
PNEWS
~ A periodic rolling update of what I’ve been up to recently
PNEWS CREVÉS (PNEWS dropdown tab)
~ Where older news gets archived
PALIMPSEST (PNEWS dropdown tab)
~ A formerly and very briefly occasional blog
PENDING? (PNEWS dropdown tab)
~ Nothing to see here…yet (?)
PLAYPEN (PUZZLE PALACE aside, this part of the site is still coalescing, and not in clear shape)
~ A main page with a rambling introduction—and links—to the dropdown subpages
PUZZLE PALACE (PLAYPEN dropdown tab)
~ WORD SQUARE PUZZLES, 152 of them, plus solutions
~ addagram puzzles (recent and in progress)
~ other occasional bits and bobs, as the urge takes me
PARTY PIECES (PLAYPEN dropdown tab)
~ an introductory piece, about the range of my light verse
~ links to several different light verse folders, mostly a bit ramshackle
PERFORMANCE (PLAYPEN dropdown tab)
~ links to videos; while there are quite a few poetry videos posted on the web of me reading serious work,
the ones linked to in the Playground are light and playful; a lack of balance I'd like to correct
PROJECTS (PLAYPEN dropdown tab)
~ a shifting section, as projects get tackled and completed; appropriately, the introductory page is kind of
a relic, with an outdated banner and redundant explanatory passages
~ a link to the Barracks Gap folders
~ a link to the SONG LYRICS folders, which are due for an update and upgrade, and perhaps a relocation
PAST GLORIES
~ a note on the role of PAST GLORIES as an archival section of the site
~ links to the three archival dropdown tabs
PARLEZ-VOUS (PAST GLORIES dropdown tab)
~ Chansons (folders of French song lyrics, written for my French classes)
~ Sketches (folders of theatrical sketches, in a blend of French and English)
PROSE ARCHIVES (PAST GLORIES dropdown tab)
~ An introduction to my history as a short story writer
~ Links to seven published short stories
~ A hope to add some of the unpublished short stories
POETRY ARCHIVES (PAST GLORIES dropdown tab)
~ a link to a Feet at Dawn sampler (19 poems, 1966-1972)
~ a link to a Surface Noise sampler (13 poems, 1972-1975)
PALAVER
~ an occasional blog? Or just the set-up for one?