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i crossed the ohio river florence y all rose in the distance remember how we used to tell the kids that from there it weather wise may 11 2024 april 6 2024 weather folk warn a tornado may lurk in our future some of us plan for eventualities more fully than others a wise woman delivers a warning via the internet of course true sages rely on ancient wisdom remembered experience and the latest greatest bras and teeth she intones i drop my phone then look down at the house the dog and the tree grieve may 10 2024 april 5 2024 the house craves value utility once six people lived here now all the men have left only two women remain rooms that once belonged to a person have half packed boxes in them semi sorted piles of clothes the women walk by them day after day rarely entering to the house grief is nightshady cinderella may 10 2024 april 4 2024 exotic invadesitaly plant poison fruit add garlic shoe fits for day 4 write a poem based on a topic in the strangest things in the world i chose tomatoes as the cinderella of vegetables which got a skeptical welcome when it was imported to europe i got some additional information about its role surrealistic visions the naked picnic le déjeuner sur l herbe may 10 2024 april 3 2024 write a surrealistic poem they said how check the masters so i asked samuel taylor coleridge what he recommended take some opium i m not much of an opium eater would drinking enough coffee to leave me buzzed do the trick maybe but the second step is to fall asleep then have a weird dream which you write down what about look to the helpers love the helpers may 10 2024 april 2 2024 a siren rips through the air it s midnight slicked with rain no one knows whether ice is forming the dogs awaken our elderly puggle starts a throaty contralto litany the doxie raises his head for a full on howl it rises and falls with the siren we live a quarter mile from a fire station also across little women may 10 2024 april 1 2024 jo march runs the story but what of the two younger sisters amy bratty strong overly blessed baby sister and then beth harp strings plink in the distance from the moment she s introduced sweet accomplished mender baker noble lover of kittens knitter domestic goddess no she s too demure for that domestic devotee and just so ocean april 1 2024 march 31 2024 in january we dream of the beach and beachwear a bulge here a fat roll there time to diet exercise fight the urge to eat purge sweat medicate despair then come fall beach body dreams fade halloween thanksgiving christmas flaunt their feasts in march beach businesses dream of summer crowds what do they see garbage from the lasting memories december 6 2023 december 6 2023 people we say only people have the memory to mourn pull a puppy away from its mom and neither remembers or at most for a day or is it a year oh how lucky to only cause what we intend we award superior us badges for bereavement aching memories of touch voice scent a smile sunrising on carry on carrying on april 30 2025 tales of troubled artists abound drug use violence especially sexual violence betrayed families demeaned employees deceit the stuff genius is made of painters musicians writers dancers producers actors every art has these dark stains swirled within it a fecal sundae molding away in a cupboard forget the bio concentrate on the art i ve to think to feel april 29 2025 when euterpe erato or calliope proffer us a poem or tale who flavors it clio take a bow history isn t just orderly lists of rulers and wars it s ideas too a dance between this writer and that idea ideas aren t genuinely new under the sun clio s got a rolodex she s converting to a database feminism has fought before who won april 28 2025 we climb up the arena stairs settle in seats then reshuffle our winter coats all rise time for the national anthem or anthems time to spend time with my quebec born habs nurtured husband one of his happiest memories from childhood skipping school to go to a canadiens victory parade detroit like montreal was an original six city we stand politely focusing on ab fab self at a funeral april 27 2025 when you go to a funeral you meditate on life and death somebody s at least maybe even the guy being memorialized or not if you re a narcissist too hard to imagine a loss more searing than the loss of your precious self isn t anyone going to speak english did i get enough praise from my a grievous failing april 26 2025 i caught thee no puppy aged o er 3 years plus a quarter past teethingcracking my own dental guard i see you chiweenie so teeney yet in need of thinkingor should be grown into a dog man s estate all that ear flopping thunderous head shakinghas yet to rattle the sense of elders into your dear mind hearing a song of long ago april 25 2025 back in the 70s two north american teens who had yet to meet listened to carole king and james taylor on fm radio plus a plethora of other musicians zeitgeist all neither was either s absolute favorite but we each liked them well enough very well indeed my beloved and i met in the 80s started shedding vinyl albums for tapes moved two sisters april 24 2025 today is my mother s birthday just past the sixth anniversary of her death what you learn first you forget last we children in our sixties were too recent to stick in her mind at the end of her life the last voice she recognized was her sister s in my heart i hear you sing againevery note as natural as dino descendant april 23 2025 helmet strapped brakes tested off to risk my life biking to work the first half of the ride was the lure a retired railroad bed turned into a bike trail surrounded by trees a river babbled next to it goldfinches swooped yellow flashes alongside the path was slightly uphill until i could coast down at dusk it was the best part after school april 22 2025 my brothers and i plagued my mom with a nightmare of schlepping but hey she signed us up to be that way let s survey the menu of after school activities dished up for us in the mid 1960s to mid 70s in morris county new jersey at the y swimming arts and crafts ballet and guitar last two nightmares of a nation april 21 2025 when i went to sleep my country was unwell maybe getting worse if it were my child i d sit by its side put a strip thermometer on its forehead check for fever stow beloved drinks by its bedside imploring it to slurp some liquids down clock blood pressure blood oxygen blood pulses but it s a grown ass adult transcendental reunion april 20 2025 the promise is the dead rise again find those they loved in life but what s the premise it s not a corporeal reunion just our souls alone what s a soul something bereft of body an essence of who we were across time space doesn t a soul grow over time as the universe expands if not that what s empty bed blues april 19 2025 i woke up this morning isn t that how all blues start what more need be said awake but alone blues enough for the rest of my life waiting for the its end what of grief s other source a strange sick man sits in the seat of power not a private matter our body politic bleeds in ways we re too eclectic playlists april 18 2025 when your children grow up leave you behind they never take everything a room with posters of old hockey stars stray socks jerseys things they can use again on a visit things they ll never use again one son s a medic with the army checks in when he can all my kids are good kids adults refresh renew restart april 17 2025 when you are a stranger in a strange land you can comfort yourself with solitude a soul selects her own society doesn t she but like our bonobo forebears we re social animals survived the african plains the riddance of fur the growth to uprightness as part of a group when war and dictators kick you out of your homelandbut an ocean all that morning jazz april 16 2025 shine django reinhardt awakening to another michigan morning dogs poke out noses from the covers chiweenie hermes leaps in to the new day as count basie s lester did his elder a doxie mix burrows back under the covers he knows the drill mentally rolls his eyes at impetuous youth wild cat blues clarence williams blues five i dress then feed the freud fetishized april 15 2025 watch bipolar mom draw the drapes she sobs plucks at hair two hours later depression flips to fury years later you rage passionately about need for dispassion reason deep breathed calm dashed at a whiff of violence mind screams duck run flee but never back to thirteen where blood s spattered a wall desperate search for tranquility space blue grass tunes april 14 2025 in summer when the morning sun has scoured the last dew from the grasses the trees rev up an incessant buzz cicadas the annual ones old reliables who sing all summer the hotter it gets the louder they buzz during the day they blare background sound the elevator music of the outdoors only louder and more what she saw in the woods april 13 2025 emily carr moved her paint with a rhythm known to the great green trees of her forests never silent too many insects for that huzz zing birdsong too nor untracked first folk s feet pad paths sans pavement she saw their art as she created her own in the rain racing her oils with gasolined speed undrizzled ah cassandra if only april 12 2025 first movement introducing the past a foreign land apollo gave cassandra the gift of prophecy or so say myth makers perhaps she could ve simply been a noticin sorta gal if you steal the wife of well anyone never mind a king bad stuff s gonna happen predictable enough with a merely mortal mind no thoughts on national pet day april 11 2025 we are sparks that spiral upward in the darkness in the nightlike bright sweet eyes longing for our approval our carewe are brief as summer lightning we are swift as swallow s flightwhen did i not have at least one animal by my side in my sight too young to remember a time before a dog or nonplussed by bemusement april 10 2025 i struggle to remember exactly what the word bemuse means because i often see it in contexts where it could mean confuse or amuse then i look it up the dictionary rolls its eyes here again duh lady it can mean either an in betweenish state twixt wit and wilderment why isn t bewit a word i know who playful winter april 9 2025 the northern midwest has an impish spring every march it and the sunstrut out to tease gray gone winter done but of course no no no meanwhile winter flies off to florida like a snowbird to give the tanned a show teases iguanas freezes them out of trees frosts oranges squeeze freeze the juice leave please florida pleads spring break over winter my beloved friend april 8 2025 the answer we agreed to nearly all problems all questions was to read you couldn t know everything but you could always know more so read naturally none should trust just any authors bloviators can write or hire ghosts culling s what critics are for thinking friends who see what you cannot because of all they ve read and not to lost shepherdess april 7 2025 back in my days of corporate cogdom i used to dream of a more pastoral existence yeah family farms struggle to remain self sustaining yeah my husband was seriously urban yeah he would hate the commute between any rural area and his work in the city but what i mused if we concentrated on high value crops instead russian tea with honey april 6 2025 my minnesota alma mater had saturday classes alarm off at 7 20 shushed off again 10 minutes later start to awaken at 7 30 dark and 20f if it was a warm dawn finally get up at 7 40 dash off to class too rushed to caffeinate let panic suffice for an hour our russian history prof liked to protest symphony april 5 2025 overture louder than possible congregating awaiting departure strolling organizers shout into megaphones never be baited into violence car honks don t litter the tram s bell dings obey all the laws cross when the marshals say okay a truck with a blast horn erupts back to chants stand up sit down detroit is a union town up and down woodward cars slow honking reciting alone april 4 2025 new to detroit i wandered about its art institute turned a corner saw six feet of blue green two women in edwardian dress indistinct looking at each other but isolated one seated in a hard backed chair staring at her companion the other stood at distance was she at the edge of a cliff a fog cloaked field failure to clap april 3 2025 preschool happy valley arvada colorado an actual ranch with ponies if we were good and no blizzard roared we got to ride the ponies or at least pet them offer a sugar cube or carrot extend your hand flat let nostrils lips tongues tickle delicious how to be good do what the teachers say of course it s relinquishing a dark night of the soul april 2 2025 last gasp of adolescent mood swings broke my studies mind bleak kept missing my grandma an anchor for my mind outside dark snowy night who shivered out there black under the night s weather meowing on a tree branch near my window minnesota wind chill could kill the window stuck shut ice i frantically hair dryed it les fauves the wild beasts april 1 2025 color color blazing brightburning canvas critics sight what mere sneer of ego nastycould destroy my joy to see thee from other distant lands and eyesdon t i a blue horse espy with pigments marks bold as thine and did not van gogh so shine in what ice limned morrisseau fauves in whose lines arctic hues did flow two portraits march 31 2025 portrait i a tilted chapeau on a tilted head concentric circles of blue red black some full some balked swirl eyes face down but glance up through a mauve shadow a lively nose shaded in curves of green mauve and yellow leads your eyes to her nonchalant smile color even more than shape or lessons about consent march 15 2025 not a poem just some recollections our school district at least through 2019 used the abstinence only sex ed curriculum in practice that means students learn nothing about rape abstinence only tells you that every time you have sex you are a piece of tape on the bottom of a shoe you grow more the joy of humility march 13 2025 maybe 10 years ago i heard npr announce that a literature phd had made a discovery about william shakespeare new news about the most studied writer in history bravo buddy evidence cited and submitted to a serious journal of lit crit all too soon someone else refuted it i winced for the prof s loss the misery he must while the birds slept may 14 2024 april 30 2024 luna selene fell into our bird bath while her twin shone above in the sky dark ripples of water lined her white bright face although april is her month to be pink like barbie or creeping phlox did she command the tides in the bath or lament the lack of bubbles or maybe say the cree the ashes of incandescence may 14 2024 april 29 2024 what s a crush love a bit but mostly a weight pressing on the chest inexorable constraining all thoughts seem to be of another did he just look at me does he even know my name 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