I’m going to havean indoor plant sale.Since 2011, the atriumand attached mini-greenhouse have guar-anteed that no house-plant will ever die.Not only that, each sproutand leaf has multipliedinto a Michigan jungleof jade, succulents,spider plants, ferns — plus grapefruit and avocado trees! They thrive in ourcare, but fly they must,fledged from their home.
Month: September 2024
#FF — Polly Needa
PHOTO PROMPT © David Stewart Polly Needa “&&^%^*&^*^*^!!!!!!,” Polly screeches. Startled awake, one eye creaks open to see five on the clock. “It’s OK, girl,” I tell her. It’s moving day. The van will arrive at two. Everything’s in neatly stacked boxes in the middle of the apartment except bedding, fresh clothes, toiletries — and…
POPO2024 Day 11
I’mwriting you this tear-shapedpoem to show that I’m crying about the oldEnbridge oil pipeline 5 that runs under The Straits of Mackinac, that pumps black death through fresh water, sepa-rated from catastrophe by grace. Enbridge’s take?Build a harbinger on bottom of lake.
Turtle Talk Guest Writer Katie Mimini. Katie Mimini is a JD/MPP student at Columbia Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Katie talks about National Native American Law Students Association and why it is important.
24 SSPC 50 — (2nd week) White Dew (Sept 7-22) Hakuro 白露 — “There’s no place like home.”*
“There’s no place like home” Farm hand pump trickleswater into livestock trough,its clarity is interrupted onlyby textured superficiality. Water into livestock troughserves as mirror and magnifierfor still, swimming pool blue. Its clarity is interrupted onlyby patched seam, goldenrod reflections,and a single milkweed puff. By textured superficiality,benefactor’s childhood home returns, withsmooth, odorless animal sculptures. *Title taken…
POPO2024 Day 10
Late night talk show hostsmake jokes, let masses ventat each day’s madness.But their cruel slightson POTUS unveiled uglinessthat even Colbert & Stewart,the best of the best,are corporate overlord-paidhacks.(a sad day in USA)
POPO2024 Day 9
So many thoughts cavort,yet this morning few wishto volunteer to tumble outline up in any orderly fashionfrom realm of pinballsand distraction.As usual, I use nature as bait.Look! The sulfur cosmosis in full bloom!Now wait. They line up onto the blank slate.
Tao Talk 