Author Archives: Barry O'Keefe

Tom and I have a super cool Bros Book Club. I was a delinquent member for a while, but now I’m back on the horse. Laura is a respected honorary member. Everyone is invited to join. Here are my drawings, from the short stories “The Fiddler” (Left) and “Jimmy Rose” (Right)

This morning, Diana reported the following nocturnal conversation, conducted while I was in a dream state. I had no recollection of this, save a very hazy sense that I had been very uncomfortably required to turn some of my focused attention towards an interlocutor somewhere in the surface world. B: They can’t all be different.Continue reading “Subconscious Transmission”

Diana drew these “monsters with insignificant problems” as she put it, and Sage, the 2 year old she was babysitting, contributed very helpful yellow scribbles. 

This is my drawing from the Belltower by Herman Melville: […] and thereupon his foreboding eye had started at the expression of the unchanging face of the Hour Una.“How is this, Bannadonna,” he lowly asked, “Una looks unlike her sisters.”

Lenerd’s Folly – By Barry Canter First A man t’ere was what made a milly dollies And spen’ but nickeled halfpence on a harse This Harse her name was none but Lenerd’s Folly An’ of the harses, strangest she was most No gip-galontin’ racin would she do ‘I’m No clip-carumptump canter could she stomp AllContinue reading “Father’s Day Poem: "Lenerd’s Folly"”

“For, often in scenes of social merriment, and especially at revels held by candlelight in old-fashioned mansions, so that shadows are thrown into the further recesses of an angular and spacious room, making them pit on a look of haunted undergrowth of lonely woods, I have drawn the attention of my comrades bny my fixedContinue reading “Tom and Barry’s Book Club: Encantadas”

Hey Everybody! Here’s my self po. Very Tomish I know, but what can you do?Long live the Rhino,Barry!

The dates are in the top left corner. Spooky feelings, knowing we’re in there – somehow still in there, as if space were time, and in the place called 2007, Conor and Donald are eating bagels and watching the mist on the lake, while a strange car, unbeknownst to them, drives quietly down the roadContinue reading “3 Views of Croatan”

Your lap is a plate,Your mouth is a cup,Your finger’s a spoon,I’m not making this up. Your wrist is a napkin,Your butt is a chair,Your skin is a jacket,Your hat is your hair. Your shoulder’s a pad,Your knee is a pew,Your neck is a necklace,Your feet are your shoes. Your elbow’s an armrest,Your tooth isContinue reading “Your Mouth Is a Cup”

Watching Muppet Family Christmas (with original 1987 ads), drinking hot chocolate with marshmallows, making charts of christmas presents and busting out the Sculpey. Joyous Giftmas to All!