Have you heard IDLES?British band screaminghard truth. Some can’thear past the screams.Google, “I’m Scum” lyrics.See the connection betweentheir name and song title?These guys are anythingbut idle!
Category: 2026 Poetry Postcard Fest
POPO 2026 Day 6
Puff is model moniker for spelled things.Magic dragons.Kittens in early readers.Dandelion farewells.Puffy is another story.Morning after eyes.Arrogant sex offenders.Orange purpled cankles.Unanswerable whysmake such a difference.
POPO 2026 Day 5
Writing implements over eonshow they’ve changed! From chiselsand mallets on wood and stone,each letter, hieroglyph, pictographa chore to communicate, educate,entertain via sweat and grunt;to now’s gel pens and keyboardsthat scribble and tap tap tapoften about nothing at all.
POPO 2026 Day 4
(written on July 7)Ferns as gifts in mid-July 80spresent problems. Transplantingfor fauna (diggers) and flora taskslogistics of time, place, and temp.Unwilling to look into giver’s head,perhaps she should’ve chosen springinstead; and she probably would’veif she hadn’t tasked others to digin blazing heat, risking strokesand deaths. Pocket change,dancing fronds are worth it,I guess. Sorry I accidentally…
POPO 2026 Day 3
Convo with granddaughterHer: gramma your arm flaps are funnyMe, wiggling them: yes, they are!Her: did you know there are 3 kinds of bats (tells me what they are)Me: where did you learn that?Her: I don’t know.Me: Do you think gramma can fly with her arm flaps?Her, laughing: no, grammaMe: how about gliding like a flying…
POPO 2026 Day 2
Tomato plants have neverbeen so tall wide healthycovered with blossomsBut where are the beesto fruitify them? Too manypossible desert culprits;maybe collaborators in crimeof pesticide, disease, drought?Pollinators are our canariesin the gardening mine.
POPO 2026 Day 1
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…
