photo link Monarch Queen, I discovered you yesterday afternoon, motionless, along the roadside. Using a stick, I hoped you would cling to it, so you could be transported to safer ground. It felt as if you did, although weakly, and so I gingerly lifted you onto the plastic bag holding the new phone book. Knowing…
Month: September 2017
Peculiar
image link Walking into the private military club in the small town a half-hour north, my old middle-school friend, who said I would know her by the poppies on her shirt, jumped up to greet us. We’d reconnected after bumping into each other at the store a while ago and traded facebook handles. She’d invited…
Orchids
A couple of weeks ago, when we went to Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park , I saw an orchid wrapped in what looked like birch bark hanging from something and in beautiful bloom (why didn’t I take a picture of it?). I had known before that tropical orchids naturally live on trees so seeing it…
You have to love
photo taken 10/25/14 at Gilmore Car Museum “Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart….
Anticipate
image link Wiggling their way Through the cosmoplasm Traveling with quantum leaps Over and around dimensions Vines of energy Penetrating protons Navigating neutrons Gathering qi Magnetic energy Discombobulating prior master hypotheses. Defying definition, These rogues are on a mission. To reach that shimmering aura. How will I know? Shimmers bounce. I wait. The Daily Post…
Happy Fishes
image link I’ve been a student of philosophical taoism/daoism for several years now. Two of the main texts studied are The Tao Te Ching/Dao De Jing and the Chuang Tzu/Zhuang Zi. The Dao De Jing (DDJ)’s main speaker is an old guy named Lao Tzu/Lao Zi, and the Zhuang Zi (ZZ)’s main character in the…
Willie and Tillie
This is my entry in the subversive children’s story challenge by Brave and Reckless. The format I use is what text would be on each page; there would be illustrations filling most of each page. Outside Cover: Willie and Tillie Title Page: written by Jade Li p.1 Willie and Tilly were brother and sister. Willie…
Tao Talk 