Please read this essay on Enbridge carelessness in regards to its building/maintenance/etc. with its oil pipelines across Wisconsin, Michigan, and the waterways within and between them HERE. SHUT DOWN LINE 5 PIPELINE UNDER THE STRAITS OF MACKINAC PERMANENTLY. Trevor King’s article: According to the study, published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research, a total…
Category: poetry
POPO 2026 Day 23
We are at our best at our worst.Maybe it takes scorched earthbefore we realize we’ve gone too far.Textured, contextual, mutual hatredfollowed by sulfurous belchingbouts of snipers picking off young fruitwindfalls through centuries.When will it be enoughto be more than enough?We’re at our best at our worst —until we aren’t.
POPO 2026 Day 22
Dotty and me, two misfitseach bonded in our traumaeach doing the best we can.Both a little scruffy, wobbly,falling down and lifting up.Forgiving, returning, eachto the other, again and again.(Dotty is rescue cat andI am soul-scarred human.We save each other.) Please note that Dotty passed away on August 18 of this year.
POPO 2026 Day 21
Wet Dreams Where is thunderwith its happy endings?Patient still white matrixwaits for lightning’sactivatewhile treetops trembleto be touched, titillatedby cascades rolling offto thirsty feetmuddy promisessoon to be fulfilled.
POPO 2026 Day 20
Cyclospora Blues Tay Tay, you a ho. No, not that Tay Tay.Taylor Farms, Green Giant of produce.You may have seen them blamedfor mass diarrhea across the USA.Speculation that break-less harvestersrelieve in fields have led to pointfingers as we shit our brains out. Restaurants and grocery storessuffer as they scramblefor other sourcesof lettuce, cilantro, et cetera…
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“In television, images are projected at you.You are the screen. The images wrap around you.You are the vanishing point.” ~ Marshall McLuhan Two mooned satellites,screen channel flickers,streamed instruments thatreceive moments framedwith algorithmic precision.In tennis match swivelsfrom pole to dizzying,nuanced pole, betweendull and obsceneliver and spleendeny and interveneskirting unseenangles and doom,branding crimesthat bloom. image link I…
