Having some involvement with Wacco since its inception and observing its growth and evolution through its time it saddens me to bid adieu. I'll particularly miss the daily poem provided with such...

Glacier illustration 1875:
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Navaho Basket:
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Snyder at Ft Ross in 2013, Nasa moon photo at Arlington VA, 2015— Photoshop merges time and space.


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Correction, 2013

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Poetry reading at Ft. Ross, 2019

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Ron Rozewski and Tom Bissinger hiking in Olympali State Park 2018. Tom is a fan of Robert Bly.

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Is there anthropological, DNA or other evidence placing the source of Native Americans in some other area besides Asia? Where?

Ron

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In a lighter vein:

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section of my painting circa 1959, man and woman in a cave…awaiting the light.
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Earth from the Hubble telescope,
rose stem from Sonoma County back yard,
poem from Boulder's William Rain.

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The Brazilian singer and composer João Gilberto died on Saturday.
He wrote the score for the film "Black Orpheus". The photo illustrating this poem is of Marpessa Dawn the actress who played...

A poem sent today by William Rain, a gardner in Boulder:

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My dear friend Melvin Goldfield loved Walt Whitman and made numerous protraits of him.
Here are some accompanying a song

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDUbyVShBTA

Comment from SpokenVerse:

If one could go back in history and eliminate one particular villain who damaged the world forever, my candidate would be Sigmund Freud. There has proved to be not a word...

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My photos of the Bridge, old friend and and Native San Franciscan Tom Bissinger

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Not wild, but growing in the back yard.


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I asked my friend Tom Bissinger to translate the poem, Paris. Tom's been to Paris, once as an extra in the 1969 film: "If It'sTuesday, This Must Be Belgium" with Suzanne Pleshette'.


Paris
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Background Image by Lorna Simpson – "Deep Blue"


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My background photo of Segal's holocaust memorial sculpture adjacent to Legion of Honor, SF.

Ferlinghetti 1981:

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I've added a little of my art work, hopefully enhancing the poem. I'll be sending it to friends in wintery climes.

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Background image taken one evening from the Jr. College's Maginni Hall's 3rd floor.

“The heart’s spiritual awakening is the true work of our lives.”
—Mary Oliver on Emerson



One of her poems is attached
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My gratitude for Taylor Jones wonderful caricatures.

Back at the ranch:


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Mt Kailash, Nepal in the background.

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Top right image taken from Peruvian Nasca hummingbird line.


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Background image is a section of a Randall Exon painting.


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William Rain is a nature photographer living in Boulder, Co.
This photo goes nicely with the poem and the poem goes nicely with William.

I have a propensity for adding images to poems, please don't be annoyed.
The photo background image is by: André Kértesz

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The days of presidential humor and enlightened leadership seem to have passed in this new century.

I'm particularly proud of having served during JFK's tenure in the unit he awarded the Green...

Illustrated with original art.

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Background photo: Margrethe Mather—1920

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You may be onto something, check out the image link in Figure 3, at the bottom of the file:

https://www.fungus.org.uk/nwfg/woundnw.htm

The fungus looks like ones that are in the Phycomyces...

Here in Guerneville none of four feral cats I feed would touch a newly opened can of Friskies. They would take one whiff and back off, oddly even though my sense of smell is good I could detect no...

Background photo taken from aircraft window somewhere above the Southwest.

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I've fought fires in Georgia and Alabama also as a volunteer, however I was in the U.S. Army and not a prisoner. It is one of the hardest physical activities I've ever engaged in. I agree the...