We’ve had John Steuart Curry’s“Tornado Over Kansas”in our museum since 1935.The current exhibit brings hisworks in from across the U.S.Walking through it, thenresearching him at home,I see immortal Americana.From farm boy to paintingpolitical murals in the KSState Capitol Building, hisdust gleams with gold.
Category: poetry
Chipmunk Candid Camera
You caught mejust about to leap,thirsty, or just needinga summer bath. Not sure how it is in your corner of the world, but here in West Michigan, the chipmunks are everywhere. They love to rest on top of things like rocks, planters, woodpiles, and this half of a bird bath*. I guess it must have…
POPO2024 Day 15
picture a naked womanembraced ferociouslyas a brilliant universe:youmake sky flower,caramel voice cool,wild rhythms throbbingchampagne(magnet poem)
POPO2024 Day 14
For sixty years A/C was not my way.There may have beena few days when I would have cranked it up each year.Since then A/C has become my daily summer friend. Every day blazes eighty-fivein supposed-to-be coolMichigan. I like fake cool,but it’s an ice-gilt prisonthat lulls me in its comfort.
POPO2024 Day 13
Two days after the big rain,I walked to the mailbox.I spied a small, very dry,lost toad in the middle ofthe road. Early enough for dewto still speckle tall grassalong the ditch, I nabbedher and walked her back.Opening my palm, mid-stoop,she leapt and landed in wet. One less sufferingcreature in the world. A saved toad as…
dVerse — OLN 369 — She Hides
She HidesShe hides her shapefrom patriarchal pawing,donning ill-fitting mumusin off-putting shades,passively cultivating uglyhairstyles through neglect.But I see her curves through shadows against lightand flimsy cotton;in her soft smileswhen she thinks no one is watching, in her gentle touch of stem as she bendsto smell the rose.I want to reach out,to tell her she is beautiful,that…
POPO2024 Day 12
I’m going to havean indoor plant sale.Since 2011, the atriumand attached mini-greenhouse have guar-anteed that no house-plant will ever die.Not only that, each sproutand leaf has multipliedinto a Michigan jungleof jade, succulents,spider plants, ferns — plus grapefruit and avocado trees! They thrive in ourcare, but fly they must,fledged from their home.
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