What Women Are Made Of


We are all ventricle, spine, lung, larynx, and gut.

Clavicle and nape, what lies forked in an open palm;

we are follicle and temple. We are ankle, arch,

sole....

this amazing day

i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is...

On the fifth day
the scientists who studied the rivers
were forbidden to speak
or to study the rivers.

The scientists who studied the air
were told not to speak of the air,
and the ones who...

The Thing Is

to love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything you've held dear
crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,
your throat filled with the silt of it....

Covered In Birds

for Bill Horvitz 1947 to 2017

Once our hands were small flightless birds
longing only for the recession of gravity, the wings
of angels. Pressed together, though they did...

O sweet spontaneous earth

O sweet spontaneous
earth how often have
the doting

fingers of
prurient philosophies pinched
and poked

The Lilies



Hunting them, a man must sweat, bear
the whine of a mosquito in his ear,
grow thirsty, tired, despair perhaps
of ever finding them, walk a long way.
He must give himself over to...

To Be Of Use

The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that...

The Wings of Love



I will row my boat on Muckross Lake when the grey of the dove

Comes down at the end of the day; and a quiet like prayer

Grows soft in your eyes, and among your...

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Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame
39004With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at...

America: A Prophecy (excerpt)

The morning comes, the night decays, the watchmen leave their stations;
The grave is burst, the spices shed, the linen wrapped up;
The bones of death, the cov'ring...

Shoulders

A man crosses the street in rain,
stepping gently, looking two times north and south,
because his son is asleep on his shoulder.

No car must splash him.
No car drive too near to...

A Christmas Carol

Away in a manger
or a crack house
or under a bridge
or in a bombed-out village
or a refugee camp
or in the mesquite shade close to the border wall
some Mary is giving birth.

Solstice Song

On this midwinter night
let us summon what we’ve lost
with chant, prayer, song, fire,
faith that the nearly forgotten
will open and rise anew
and the world will turn
back...

Hello rural county ,readers,and residents, I again am disgusted,but not alarmed by the past,present and probable future of grape greed,politics,and conversion of vast sections of Sonoma,Mendocino...

Just wanted to let the community of Graton know that if you have been seeing Monarch butterfly's in the area it is due in part to the efforts of my partner, Darlene . This is the second year of her...

Greetings, Sonoma County Family!

36024My name is Nils and I am your candidate for United States House of Representatives in CA's 5th District.

Many of you have already received your ballots. I...

Update on Ernie's Assessment of the Hopkins Campaign: Firstly, it's getting weird out there. Would like to be a fly on the wall when Hopkins learned that her campaign manager/consultant/handler Bob...

The Board of Supervisors has the power to adopt standards regarding vineyard development and their environmental impact. The County of Sonoma bends over backwards to assist vineyards. Regulations are...

Wow. Thats a lot of 'slander and dirt' for someone complaining about "slander and dirt" . First of all the endorsements and indeed the announcement by the Sonoma County Business PAC is a fact - as is...

How would you describe this powerful anecdote?


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

I don't know about demagoguery, sociology or any of that. I do know that I was blown away when I became a member of the Graton Fire Department and went out on just about every call for several years...

The following letter, written by Helen Shane, on behalf of Sebastopol Tomorrow, was sent to the Board of Supervisors and published in this week's Sonoma West. The Board is scheduled to discuss these...

After the Valley Fire erupted in Lake County last week, burning 75 thousand acres and destroying more than 500 homes, including Middletown, Cobb and surroundings, and forcing thousands of people to...

Dear Community, Here is my article that was just published in the Gazette.
https://www.sonomacountygazette.com/cms/pages/sonoma-county-news-article-4290.html

They sent me one of the nastiest letters I have ever gotten about how they were going to fine me each day I didn't respond to their survey. Then when I go to respond on their website (the only way...

I have been contemplating why the growing struggle by rural residents against the expanding, industrial wine industry in Sonoma and Napa counties, Northern California, has touched my heart and soul...

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Wine Enthusiasts Magazine, an organization devoted to the Wine Industry,(wineenthusiasts.com) nominated five individuals as Person of the Year, among them, Joe Wagner. The awards will be...

from today's Press Democrat:

Attacking the messenger
EDITOR: Since Ernie Carpenter’s commentary appeared in the paper on July 15 (“Is Big Wine the Big Oil of Sonoma County?”), at least three...

Ernie Carpenter's excellent "Is Big Wine the Big Oil of Sonoma County?" appears in today's PD and follows. Please click on the link below and make online comments and send letters to the editor. That...

Shepherd,

Thank you for this insightful article. You have strongly stated many important points.

I would like to add some thoughts about the Wine Empire and climate chaos, and possible actions...

Wine Empire replaces Redwood Empire

By Shepherd Bliss
WaccoBB.net

Sonoma County has been known as part of the natural Redwood Empire. Wine industry lobbyists re-branded it as the commercial...

Hi Barry,

I don't think we've met, but I wanted to thank you for providing this community forum. It's really pretty awesome. I credit you and WaccoBB as the vehicle that educated the community...

I agree with some others on this post that the key issue that could severely impact our lives--and Sebastopol businesses--is added traffic on this tiny, already congested, two lane road. And create...

From re-reading the winery application, some of their events will be up to 600 people! Someone mentioned the option of entering the winery from Llano Rd. That would require making a new road through...

On the contrary. This is what it would take regardless of where the grapes are grown. Take notice during harvest; no water is used to move grapes around the state and irrigation is only counted on...

Something to think about:

Some years back, the treated waste water was all being used to irrigate crops in the area.
With modern treatment, this stuff is actually pretty clean (at least good...

<br><br>Let's Drink to Wine Country

Oh yay!
Another winery, you say?
Bottles of wine line the grocery store shelves
Out of my price range
With fake French names from Chateau this and Chateau...

Bill Shortridge, a grapegrower, just sent the following to the Sebastopol City Council. It is a good example, in my opinion, of how to appeal to the councilmembers. In a separate email, he said that...

Sad to say, Barry, but progress can rarely ever be stopped. It’s (almost) unconstitutional to tell a landowner what they can or can’t do with their own piece of the American Dream, (Property). But,...

Dian has suggested a site check this Sunday for the winery proposed for 5150 Sebastopol Rd., which is Highway 12, slightly East of Llano Road. I would be available and suggest we meet there at 2:30,...

No Barry, this is not NIMBY. This is about keeping the integrity of open space and community separators. This is so new that people will have to take some time to analyze it further. The first...

So far, I have only one big objection to this project, and that's the impact on the multi-use trail.

There are 40 acres of vineyards currently at the site which are irrigated with treated waste...

Industrial wineries and vineyards--with their monocrop--threaten humans, other critters, and the environment in many ways. Human, animal, and plant life NEED the basics, such as water, food, and...

29658There is new large winery being proposed for 5150 Sebastopol Rd (Hwy 12) just east of Llano Road. The owner is Joseph Wagner of the WagnerFamilyofWine that founded the Caymus Vineyards of Napa...

Sebastopol's Dog Park and My Dog
By Shepherd Bliss

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2015-01-18_14-34-23-1.jpegHaving read articles complaining about dogs, which I shamefully...

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Republicans Just Took Over the Senate—Here's Why That Sucks

George Zornick on November 4, 2014 - 11:12PM ET
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Barry, you keep asking but no one is answering; the needs of the community in this case is respect from a corporation that has until now shown none. Even in its current location, there is no effort...

The Last Wolf


The last wolf hurried toward me
through the ruined city,
and I heard his baying echoes
down the steep smashed warrens
of Montgomery Street and past
the ruby-crowned...

On Living


I


Living is no laughing matter:
you must live with great seriousness
like a squirrel, for example --
I mean without looking for something...