Merry Christmas and happy St Stephen's Day!

Or Boxing Day or Wren Day! Here what I hope to write in the next weeks for the pages of my blog.

CMTravelAnd. Posting about the cribs I have been visiting.

CMMusic. And about Christmas choral music in English of these weeks.

Gay men and the poem A Scammer by Jonathan Bracker

Seminars on the metaphysical poets... Have you ever read A Scammer by Jonathan Bracker? It is a "funny" poem that tells what a female middle-aged major does on a website for lonely older and very young men. She is not a spider or a staff sergeant of an American peace-keeping mission in Afghanistan, ready to come back to California. The beginning has a more broken style, while the end is more fluent and smooth. Excellent to learn words for an English learner!

Metaphysical poets? @CMTravelAnd Gay men? #Poem Jonathan Bracker, "A scammer". He/she is...? https://t.co/lBlgpptWce #CMBooks #CMLeisure

— CMBooks (@CMBooksBlog) September 19, 2017

And Jonathan Bracker is not only a poet, but also an amateur artist who draws male nudes from life. He is on the lookout of good models. He does not draw anyone and pays the model with his favourite - or favorite, if you like... - of the three pastel drawings in a relaxed informal session. And he sells his pastels of male nudes to art collectors at very low prices.

As for published work some of his books and booklets are:

- Paris Sketches published by Thorp Springs Press of Austin, Texas, with a watercolor of a scene along the Seine, by Frank Stack,

- Prose Passages Of Thomas Hardy Arranged As Verse: A Little Patch Of Shepherd's Thyme published by Moving Finger Press, 

- Civilian Aboard U.S. Navy Ship at Sea (Summer Kitchen Series, #2:03),

- Duplicate Keys, 

- Some Poems About Women,

- Constellations of Clover: Poem,

- This Day. 

Jonathan Bracker also edited Bright Cages: Selected Poems Of Christopher Morley (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965) and co-authored, with Mark I. Wallach and Christopher Morley. He has taught in colleges and universities in Texas, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and California, and on U.S. Navy ships at sea; his poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Northwest and in Writer's Digest.