Now that you have found your way through the labyrinth What don’t you understand? You may ask anything you want. If it is in my program I will be happy to answer, Tilting my head slightly and smiling. But first: How much do you want this job on a scale of 1 to 100? On …
What you might do
Two ravens are eating corn In the snow, in the medicine circle. They are jet-black Against a field of pure white. Looking out over this cold landscape You would never know it is March. You might make some tea, Place another log on the fire. You might gradually return to your thoughts. You might be …
Quiet as a banana
Bananas are famously yellow but they are also very quiet. Sometimes they are so quiet that I forget they are there until they turn black. Equally quiet is a chair but a chair is more still than quiet when it isn’t being sat in, so still in its form you have to wonder if it …
Appeal of order for PA Supreme Court rehearing should be dropped
6700-Name Petition Delivered to Philly DA Krasner Calling for Fair Appeal for Mumia
The organization Roots Action has delivered a petition signed by 6700 people from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, across the country and around the world, to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, demanding that Mumia Abu-Jamal be allowed to re-argue his original appeal of his conviction to the state’s highest court. The petition, which can still have names added, …
Greylock Mountain
Stop, stop! I shouted. Someone in my waking dream was shining a light on me. I shuffled downstairs to make some coffee, to feed the cats, to stoke the fire. This song is making me sad. This song. . . this song, listen. . . I’m a poet. And you? I’m a worrier. What worries …
Like reading Mary Oliver
Reading the late Mary Oliver, I have a bookmark marking a favorite poem. It used to be a long piece of brown paper, The handle of a paper bag. I read a few more poems And then a few more, marking the ones I like With the brown paper bookmark. The bookmark gets shorter and …
Rove’s campaign of lies continues:
The Right-Wing Attack on Medicare-for-All
One thing you can say about Karl Rove: the guy pretty much telegraphs his intention to lie, distort and just make sh*t up in an ends-trump-means effort to win at all costs. For keeping Republicans in the game even as their racist white, male, uber-Christian, know-nothing political base keeps shrinking, that is an essential tactic …
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A retelling of the Grimm brothers’ folk tale, “The fisherman and his wife”, for our times
One day Melania was walking along the beach wondering what to do about her husband. She was worried that he would not make it through another month, much less his term, without a miracle. While she was walking, feeling hopeless and deep in thought she came upon a beautiful iridescent fish that had been washed …
Venezuelans Need To Find Their Own Solution
Trump Venezuela Coup Will End Badly For US
Rick Sanchez, an anchor for Russia’s RT-America, reported last week of “Signs that the US attempt to change-out presidents in Venezuela may be falling flat.” He was speaking about the in-plain-sight US coup attempt unfolding on the northern coast of South America against the elected president of Venezuela. Lucas Koerner, a reporter with Venezuela Analysis, …
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The poet was not killed or harmed in this fantasy of world’s end
I’m sad. Let’s be sad together. I’m angry too. Let’s be angry together. Let’s be sad About what makes you sad first. Then we can be sad about What makes me sad. Then we can get angry together. I have a list of things That make me angry and sad At the same time! Will …
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