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…
Category: poetry
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…
reblog from 8 years ago
Surrender (poem)
Vision Quest (haibun)
Vision Quest Vision is a gift of our genes. As we grow older and spend increasing hours staring into screens, our sight takes pummeling strain. Screen adjustments may be made in font size, background contrast, etc. to accommodate them; yet as our eyes shift from pixelated virtual realm to real world, things continue to be…
#SLS — “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll” by Bob Dylan
I first heard Hattie’s song on Bob Dylan’s Biograph boxed set. Once heard never forgotten. Hattie has haunted me ever since. Putting a human face to the monstrous acts of humans emboldened by protections offered by institutional racism may have what started me on a path of deprogramming my mind from the pervasive multi-media brainwashing…
OLN 416
The kids and I visited Mammoth Cave,in Kentucky, when they were 10 & 12.There weren’t any mammoths.There were, however, in the rock beast’s belly,cots set up, still there since Dr. Croghanbrought TB patients to cure in 1842. Bjorn is today’s host of dVerse’ OpenLinkNight.
