“In television, images are projected at you.You are the screen. The images wrap around you.You are the vanishing point.” ~ Marshall McLuhan Two mooned satellites,screen channel flickers,streamed instruments thatreceive moments framedwith algorithmic precision.In tennis match swivelsfrom pole to dizzying,nuanced pole, betweendull and obsceneliver and spleendeny and interveneskirting unseenangles and doom,branding crimesthat bloom. image link I…
repost: The Lorax Reboot
A friend and I are headed back up to Manistee this week to see the ginkgo and other wonderful, leafy friends.
POPO 2026 Day 19
Married at First Sight A pastor & 2 therapists walk into a bar…and pick 5 couples to get married at 1st sight.Approaching season’s 28-episode endI have to wonder what were they thinking,or did they let their rested laurels choose?Was what motivated each gambler grokked,or was it about looks & checked boxes? Or… did they subconsciously…
POPO 2026 Day 18
Doors and windows opengentle breeze wafting throughhaze-free skies again.Not even the neighbor’s dog’sbored barking can disruptthe peace of this perfectsummer day.
#SLS — “Calypso” by John Denver
First song that comes to mind for this week’s SLS is this one. I had the album it was on. I played at playing acoustic guitar in the early 80s and bought the songbook for it. At one time I could play and sing it. There is so much to like about the song. Honoring…
The Oracle Speaks — A Girl Could Die
lies linger like poisonbleeding away colorices fire, wets my eye broken desire is blue, babyone prisoner of two manyporcelain secrets remembered long lips kiss red oceanschampagne-voiced ghost devourersailing as if no girl could die The Oracle speaks through Poet Magnetic Poetry Kit
POPO 2026 Day 17
PNC connection In MI, we have PNC bankBanks are warm and fuzzy ifyou’re a billionaire or you’re in,“It’s a Wonderful Life.”PNC is not an acronym for bankspart of a larger financial empire. In court lingo, PNC is code for,“pleads no contest” to a crime,meaning one is not guilty butis not innocent either.Gouging, threatening, fee-ingare not…
