The Ghost of Tom JoadMen walkin’ ‘long the railroad tracksGoin’ someplace and there’s no going backHighway patrol choppers comin’ up over the ridgeHot soup on a campfire under the bridgeShelter line stretchin’ ’round the cornerWelcome to the new world orderFamilies sleepin’ in their car in the southwestNo home, no job, no peace, no restWell, the…
Year: 2026
FFF 66 — Doodads
Difficult to believe that January is almost done. Groundhog Day is coming soon, and maybe it will mean only 6 more weeks of winter? This FFF will have pics taken in January but not shared yet. Maybe some music. Maybe a poem. Let’s start with pics. I bought the 5-disc set of “Spectacle: Elvis Costello…
dVerse OLN 400 — You have to imagine it.
Zohran Mamdani inauguration ceremony You have to imagine it. — from Proof, by Cornelius Eady, Written for the inauguration of Zohran Mamdani, Jan 1, 2026, NYC. You have to imagine it. Teeny tiny crystalswafting straight downsmaller than snowmore like orderly grainsof salt, aiming to scrubwinter politic dirt away. No winds wind us upstill life that…
#FF — Flower Child
PHOTO PROMPT © Rochelle Wisoff-Fields Flower Child Why doesn’t Ellen understand she is an introvert? Is she so inscrutable? How does Ellen expect her to survive the private home she will share with eight other residents? She’d met the husband-wife caregivers and her soon-to-be roommate last week. Why were they smiling all of the time?…
The Current: When a Corporation Decides States Can’t Protect Their Own Waters
Attorney General Nessel Speaks Before March 2024 Sixth Circuit Court Hearing PHOTO: Bill Latka The Line 5 case Enbridge doesn’t want Michigan courts to hear. David Holtz Jan 27, 2026 If you care about whether your state can protect its own natural resources, please read THIS article. It is important.
dVerse Poetics Tuesday — The Seeker
The SeekerGeo, world travelingsearching, rising, falling,tunneling throughentrances, exits;a circuitous tube.Tu be is to beconnected to fabric of All. Note:I decided to use a dream I had back in 2020. The collage is the closest I could come to what I experienced in the dream. I observed George Harrison, traveling on a tube to the…
Tao Talk 