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Equinox


Now is the time of year when bees are wild
and eccentric. They fly fast and in cramped
loop-de-loops, dive-bomb clusters of conversants
in the bright, late-September out-of-doors. ...

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I deleted my Facebook account years ago! Glad that cancelling Facebook is now finally becoming a thing. Better late than never.
;-)

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Earthseed


There is no end
To what a living world
Will demand of you.



When apparent stability disintegrates,

Bullet Points

I will not shoot myself
In the head, and I will not shoot myself
In the back, and I will not hang myself
With a trash bag, and if I do,
I promise you, I will not do it
In a...

A Prayer for the Post Office


This is a non-partisan prayer
about something as mundane as mail,
as gentle as the swish of a letter
falling to the floor by the door.
This is a prayer
for...

Kindness


Before you know what kindness really is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCkjSUb7K5o
you must lose things,
feel the future dissolve in a moment
like salt in a weakened broth.
What...

Letter to My Great-Grandchildren


Dear Chance and Aurora,


Maybe your grandparents
told you about this, maybe not.
When they were a young couple
raising your mom & dad

Ashes Among the Remains


My father responded
Just throw them away
I did not nor did I cast them into
ocean or bay where we’d fished
flounder and fluke nor strew them
over the golf courses...

Gee, maybe you could learn the difference between plural and possessive.

What We Packed at 3 A.M.



The dog

the drugs


The cash

The Inheritance


around the table
each taking a turn
they described how everything was lost
when the fire roared through


speaking last, the 74 year old grandmother ...

I have been a Pete's supporter for years
when snarsnucks made their shots 2/3 size Pete's stayed normal their graffix are great
coffee tastes like coffee ,can get unsweetend Mochas
...

Hi

The best way to bring over the air stations, is to use an antenna that provides more gain. A booster can only amplify the signal received from the antenna, it will not make the antenna more...

To Susan B. Anthony on her eightieth birthday






To Susan B. Anthony
on her eightieth birthday
February 15, 1900

Waking


Get up from your bed,
go out from your house,
follow the path you know so well,
so well that you now see nothing
and hear nothing
unless something can cry loudly to you ,
and for...

Apologies for highjacking your thread, but I'm gonna put up these links here to avoid the threads corrupted by COVID deniers.

Cheap, saliva based testing has arrived. To be effective, there needs...

Initiation Song from the Finders' Lodge


Please bring strange things.
Please come bringing new things.
Let very old things come into your hands.
Let what you do not know come into your eyes....

Goat Rock Uke, thank you so much for your ongoing reports. I send them on each day to our in house email list for distribution to the residents who have online access here at Burbank Heights &...

Sorrow Song

for the eyes of the children,
the last to melt,
the last to vaporize,
for the lingering
eyes of the children, staring,
the eyes of the children of
buchenwald,
of viet nam and...

A marked resemblance to Bozo the Clown, IMO. :-)

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To World War Two


Early on you introduced me to young women in bars
You were large, and with a large hand
You presented them in different cities,
Made me in San Luis Obispo, drunk
On French...

How I Discovered Poetry


It was like soul-kissing, the way the words
filled my mouth as Mrs. Purdy read from her desk.
All the other kids zoned an hour ahead to 3:15,
but Mrs. Purdy and I...

A year ago my husband lost his wedding ring and our 10th anniversary was coming up so I thought it would be nice to replace the ring during our renewal ceremony, planned for April 26 th. I made...

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For John Lewis


In an age of outrage there is love.
In an age of fear there is love.
In an age of unspeakable grief and loss there is love.


Gratitude remains intact.
But we must act.

On Breathing


I held mine, at a cash point
by the police station
when I saw her kneel to speak
on his level, a mother telling
her not yet three year old son you don’t
need to be scared,...

Democracy is under attack. What is happening in Portland is part of an attempt to overthrow American democracy. It amounts to an insurrection. An insurrection is "an organized effort to seize...

Absolutely stunning! Aren't lions generally a threat to child elephants? Are you sure this wasn't a photoshoped picture? How could the photographer have happened to be there at this particular...

You Reading This, Be Ready


Starting here, what do you want to remember?
How sunlight creeps along the shining floor?
What scent of old wood hovers, what softened
sound from outside fills the...

Legacies


her grandmother called her from the playground
“yes, ma’am”
“i want chu to learn how to make rolls” said the old
woman proudly
but the little girl didn’t want...

49811July 17

41 New Cases. 1 was a West County Resident

ICU beds available remain at 6.
49810

Screen Time

Mirrors are one thing
I am there for hair
or to apply emollient
with purpose
then move on –
brief self-assessment
and that’s it

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We Need Each Other Now


We need each other now.
In truth, we always have.
But as things disintegrate,
as chaos and disorder reign,
we become like bones,
scattered and
stripped clean of all

A personal Covid-Times story. I loved this well crafted and insightful piece of writing. Filled with wit and intelligence and "oh wow that was what I was thinking/experiencing". So many nuances ......

The Leap


50 years ago

At age 19
Intoxicated by Kerouac’s
On The Road
We went down to the
Railroad tracks

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49753July 7

21 New Cases in Sonoma County. None were West County Residents.

2 More Sonoma County Residents lost their lives to the virus.

Available ICU Beds are 2. hospitalizations have...

This Is What You Shall Do


This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and sun and the animals,
despise riches, give alms to every one that asks,
stand up for the stupid and crazy,
devote...

School Prayer
In the name of daybreak
and the eyelids of morning
and the wayfaring moon
and the night when it departs,
I swear I will not dishonor
my soul with hatred
but offer myself humbly...

July 5

County did not report again last night. They may have their hands full. Sonoma State has told The County they are ending their agreement to use parts of the campus for the fight against...

The new “face” of the police force...





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The County of Sonoma did not post new numbers last night.

There is an article in todays Press Democrat that really drills down on case numbers, hospital capacity, where we are likely headed, etc....