I look to the sky,
so clear and blue
peaceful,
calm.
The trees,
brown and dead,
yet they still have
some kind of luster.
The fields,
so expansive,
but like everything,
still enclosed by boundaries.
The road,
the smallest wall in height
to ever separate two things.
I see the breeze,
an impossible feat,
but not for this philosopher,
writer,
poet,
lover.
I see homes,
scattered like
raindrops on a windshield.
A tower or two,

do you cry at night
do you wonder why
do you sit awake and think
do you ask yourself
do you imagine yourself different
do you change your point of view
do you see yourself through another's eyes
do you get disgusted and try to hide
do you change your ways
do you no longer care
do you finally give in to their stares
but now that you've changed
now that they know you're there
can you really be sure they care
do you honestly thing you fit in
do you really think you belong

July 14, 2008 (Prague Daily Monitor) -- Archaeologists have uncovered a 4000-year-old grave in Mikulovice, east Bohemia, with remains of what might have been considered a vampire at the time, Nova TV has reported. The experts made the terrifying find within their research of a burial site from the Early Bronze Age.

November 3, 2007 (The Advocate / Jamie Deloma) -- Beliefs about spirits coming in the night to eat the flesh of the living were pervasive among early New Englanders, and may have inspired the creator of "Dracula" -- and fear of blood-sucking vampires lurking in the night.

On Dominica there exists a creature known as the soucoyan. The "official" explanation of this creature's origin is that it is a curious combination of West African spiritualism and 18th Century Catholicism.