A friend and I are headed back up to Manistee this week to see the ginkgo and other wonderful, leafy friends.
Category: poetry
POPO 2026 Day 19
Married at First Sight A pastor & 2 therapists walk into a bar…and pick 5 couples to get married at 1st sight.Approaching season’s 28-episode endI have to wonder what were they thinking,or did they let their rested laurels choose?Was what motivated each gambler grokked,or was it about looks & checked boxes? Or… did they subconsciously…
POPO 2026 Day 18
Doors and windows opengentle breeze wafting throughhaze-free skies again.Not even the neighbor’s dog’sbored barking can disruptthe peace of this perfectsummer day.
The Oracle Speaks — A Girl Could Die
lies linger like poisonbleeding away colorices fire, wets my eye broken desire is blue, babyone prisoner of two manyporcelain secrets remembered long lips kiss red oceanschampagne-voiced ghost devourersailing as if no girl could die The Oracle speaks through Poet Magnetic Poetry Kit
POPO 2026 Day 17
PNC connection In MI, we have PNC bankBanks are warm and fuzzy ifyou’re a billionaire or you’re in,“It’s a Wonderful Life.”PNC is not an acronym for bankspart of a larger financial empire. In court lingo, PNC is code for,“pleads no contest” to a crime,meaning one is not guilty butis not innocent either.Gouging, threatening, fee-ingare not…
POPO 2026 Day 16
As gardener & bird feeder,even when livingalone, I am taking oncultivating community.This philosophy also goesfor folks with fur babiesand aquariums; a willingnessto do the work, with no otherexpectation of thanksthan observing & appreciatingmy & their health blossoming.
POPO 2026 Day 15
Rally July 19 Five yessed to start; now three,we’re going to listen toBernie, El-Sayed, and AOC.A gathering so largebeyond any so far for me.I long to merge with swelling sea,shoulder to shoulder,kindred believers inwe, the peoples’ rightto have and speak outfor democracy.
