Hello Everyone! Today begins my sharing of postcards and poems sent to people on my list for the annual Poetry Postcard Festival I’ve been participating in since 2021. Kerfe got me started back then and I have fallen in love with the experience. We get a list of 31 names and between July 4 and…
reblog from 8 years ago
Surrender (poem)
September 30: National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools
American Indian Boarding School in the 1800’s BoardersA string of stolen children, scared, confused, snake, capped with flying penguins.Led to stools, stripped, dusted,and shaved, paving the way:institutional erasure.Sacked, sad, desked, rapped,slapped — and worse.So much worse. Unwilling orphans cry for parents.Unheard pleas echo lifetimes. From the Law Librarians of Congress website: In 2021, Canada passed…
#FF — Invitations
Invitations Fortification bricks are placed, mortared with blood, over decades. A sprawling structure, it’s sectioned into rooms, floors, cellars, and turrets. Each space has its purpose. I travel freely throughout its memories. Those regarding it will never see all of its exterior. Few will be invited in. One summer morning, while writing a poem to…
Vision Quest (haibun)
Vision Quest Vision is a gift of our genes. As we grow older and spend increasing hours staring into screens, our sight takes pummeling strain. Screen adjustments may be made in font size, background contrast, etc. to accommodate them; yet as our eyes shift from pixelated virtual realm to real world, things continue to be…
#SLS — “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” by Bob Dylan
I first heard Hattie’s song on Bob Dylan’s Biograph boxed set. Once heard never forgotten. Hattie has haunted me ever since. Putting a human face to the monstrous acts of humans emboldened by protections offered by institutional racism may have what started me on a path of deprogramming my mind from the pervasive multi-media brainwashing…
OLN 416
The kids and I visited Mammoth Cave,in Kentucky, when they were 10 & 12.There weren’t any mammoths.There were, however, in the rock beast’s belly,cots set up, still there since Dr. Croghanbrought TB patients to cure in 1842. Bjorn is today’s host of dVerse’ OpenLinkNight.
