SeaQuaker
The Ocean of Light overcomes the ocean of darkness.
SeaQuaker is a writing website of Daniel Eugene Wilcox a poet, short story writer, and novelist. Poetry is creative play in the imagination--a way of seeing, a way of feeling, a way of being; re-envisioning our perception, to experience images and moods and truths via the deep structure of far-reaching words. Browse through his poems, short stories, and philosophical musings to see the world, life, and the cosmos from a different perspective.
Daniel earned his degree in Creative Writing from Cal State University, Long Beach. He is a former activist, literature teacher, and roving wanderer, from Montana to the Middle East, casting lines out upon the turbulent waters and far shores of this troubled world. Visit Willows Wept Review for nature's epiphany in June 2010: "Live Branch Reach" and Night Watch Psalm."Hear the Middle Eastern voice of "Three Sons," Daniel's call for shalom at outwardlink.net.
Experience romantic love, in the midst of and despite hatred, war, and selfishness in Palestine/Israel: "Israeli Morning" in Wild Violet Literary Magazine. Or read "The Faces of Rock" a short story of suffering and redemption in the midst of all the religious killing. "Faces" was published in The Danforth Review and Danse Macabre. It is available on this website and elsewhere online including at the Library and Archives Canada: http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/202/300/danforth/2007/no20/fiction/09_07/wilcox.htm
Struggling with problems and trials? Visit The Greensilk Journal and read "Retina Shadow," to be inspired and lighted into new life. Other poems coming your way from Daniel include "manta ray" in Lyrical Passion Poetry E-Zine, "The Last Exit" in Right Hand Pointing, "molten froth waves" in A Handful of Stones, "Ah, Bird-Poop Van" in The Bicycle Review, "Midnight Voyager" in Unfettered Verse, and a three-set in The Copperfield Review: "Body Parts," "The Last Libation," and "Crucified Isle."
For a satiric take on modern media and literature, and its tragic consequences visit The Centrifugal Eye and experience "Sayings so Unkind."Read a striking poem concerning the choices we make in life. When Daniel visited Key West, Florida, he stopped at Earnest Hemingway's mansion where Ernest lived in the 1930's. "On Visiting Hemingway's..." is a juxtaposition inLeaf Garden Magazine #7.
In August 2009, Diminuendo Press published Daniel's first book of poetry, Dark Energy. The volume of experiential poems is available from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, local bookstores, etc. Or get Dark Energy directly from Diminuendo Press: http://www.cyberwizardproductions.com/Diminuendo_Poetry/Dark_Energy_by_Daniel_Wilcox_poems_poetry_book.html
The most difficult aspect of life is the evil that humans encounter in history and nature. Consider the horrific tragedy of Haiti. Experience "Only Left Standing" at Calliope Nerve and "The Nemesis" at Counterexample Poetics and ponder like Job this tragic fact of existence. Then look to the cross of God, to the One who suffers with us, and find hope.Experience the lament against total war, "The Wind Blew Away the Young," at Mad Swirl.com. Weep for the innocent in "Caught in the Act in Iraq." Or be shocked into action by his Christmas poem, "To Whom It Does Not Concern," on the website, protestpoems.org and a reflection on time and history in "Of Things Past and Present" at Static Movement. Daniel has a deep passion for peacemaking, ethics, and human rights. Check out his poem about alcohol, the American Indian, and being human at Sentinel Poetry Online.
If you like controversy and satire, try out the oppositional poetry magazine The Recusant. Read
some of Daniel's more explosive poems such as "a few blasphemies," "Concerning this 500th Anniverary of John Calvin and his Tongues of Fire,"
The philosophical "ExHume" and other experimental poems conumdrumed the March 2009 issue of Counterexample Poetics. And "The Cup," on Truth and the Holy Grail, resides at Wild Violet.
Daniel's wild lines have also fallen to print in Danse Macabre, Word Riot, Moria, The Centrifulgal Eye, Lunarosity, Hanging Moss Journal, The New Verse News, ocean diamond, The Writer's Eye, Mad Swirl, Abandoned Towers, The Scruffy Dog Review, Oak Bend Review, Crossing Rivers Into Twilight, Tipton Poetry Journal, The Cherry Blossom Review, The Houston Literary Review, Lucid Rhythms, Identity Theory, Halfway Down the Stairs, Right Hand Pointing, Frame Lines,The Externalist, The Green Silk Journal, The Driftwood Review, Western Friend Magazine, Flutter Poetry Journal, Frostwriting, Words-Myth, Ink Sweat & Tears, Erbacce Print Journal, Sentinel Poetry Online, The November 3rd Club, Word Catalyst, the poetry warrior, Mississippi Crow Magazine, The Cerebral Catalyst, The Clockwise Cat, Anthrozine, Ink, Sweat, & Tears, Stylus Poetry Journal, Idlewheel Literary Friction, The Indite Circle, The Rogue Poetry Journal, The WriteSideUp, La Fenetre International Literary Magazine,The Other Side Magazine, etc.One of Daniel's reflective articles appeared in the nonfiction book, Walking Cheerfully on the Web edited and published by Liz Oppenheimer. The volume about the Society of Friends is available from Quaker Books.
Daniel has finished a second book of poems, Psalms, Yawps, and Howls. The third tome is sparking out from his mind to the screen right now;-). He is also working on a second novel, a suspense thriller called An Eye for a Beheading, partially for his wife who loves "who-done-its."
Daniel resides on the central coast of California with his mystery-loving wife and a hyper-cat named Fizzy. Besides writing, he reads a lot, shoots photography, and finds time to exercise. He's an old backpacker and misses those trips. In the past he hiked up the tallest peak in Arizona, to the top of Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevadas, and down into the bottom of the Grand Canyon on many of its South Rim trails; but now he hikes into his computer room each day in the fall of his years:-). Well, it's not quite that bad; Daniel swims regularly and has hiked with his family on Kauai and in Olympia National Park in Washington State, and he day walks around locally on the Central Coast.
I saw, also, that there was an ocean of darkness and death; but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. In that also, I saw the infinite love of God, and I had great openings...
George Fox