taken the day before we got 8 more inches Michigan December Tableaucoat, boots, hat, scarf, gloveslong strides punch tall driftsgarage lock’s unfrozenblessing before taskbacktrack holes to houserehang keys on hookshiny red beast primed,plugged in, roars to lifechurns into bright lightchute spews white rivercoating cottonwooduntil time to turnround we go, circuitsheated grip warmersease arthritic joints.county plow…
Month: December 2025
So Long, Chicago – Pokey LaFarge by Steve for the Deaf
The post is about a song, about a place, and about a time in our history — the present.
#FF — Never Again
PHOTO PROMPT © Dale Rogerson Never Again The parties we used to have! Held on Thursday nights, around the calendar. Everyone knew to bring a dish, a bottle, and a CD of their favorite tunes. Winter time may have been the best of all. Everyone bundled up, rosy-cheeked, snuggling with neighbors, hands over the raised…
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — unwinding
image link unwindinglandscapes that one hopes are never bindingquicksand, bogs, crevasses please avoidweaves unseam as wisdom is unwindingseasons gather hems forever findingfabrics stitched with bits of overjoyverdant hopes may stay but are not bindingunstick bias, resolute non-mindingcomfort basks in quiet of the voidweaves unseam as wisdom is unwindingserendipity an unsought findingbobbin on high seas of…
Bears Gone Wild
PBS black bear fact sheet No joke, twice today I’ve read about and seen where bears are attacking people. One was at an animal show in China, which showed woefully unprepared animal trainers who were involved dealing with the attack. It’s not the first time a captive wild creature has fought back against its imprisonment….
dVerse Prosery Monday — Granites and Schists
The granites and schistsOf my dark and stubborn country.— by Nan Shepherd, from, “The Hill Burns”from In the Cairngorms* Granites and Schists She lay curled and still, a small figure lost in loose, white cotton folds in the graffiti-enshrined bus stop cubicle. A puffy-jacketed arc of bystanders with pointed phones surrounds her. Sirens approach. Crowds…
from Turtle Talk: Historical States’ Land Grabs from Native American Tribes continues (my title)
“More Than Morrill: The Intertwined History of Indian Land Dispossession, Arizona Statehood, and University Enrichment,” by Teresa M. Miguel-Stearns, Samantha Ginsberg, and Kristen Cook
Tao Talk 