A poem (?) I did at a writers’ group based on this prompt. Charley said he’d like to have it for the archives (which don’t yet exist) so I’m typing it up emailing him and blogging it. The book of prompts is called “Finger Exercises for Poets” by Dorianne Laux.
Category: environment
Latest iteration on my business card + Excerpted poem “We”
[…] Punch in, punch out; as the weary depart; you are alert on the headset; she is shifting packages among conveyors, up, down, across slides the latte. Clinkety clink go the coins and rustle of crumpled ones, out of pockets and into tip jars. Brake, stop, go, the drive thru, the sausage biscuits. The scrubs and IVs and X-Rays […]
Singular Fragments of Incarnation No. 2
Baristas set things in order / — clear surfaces / — clean windows / — near to closing time / — squeaky squeaky squeaky / — an item falls / — and Pink Pony Club / — — comes on the stereo / Singular Fragments of Incarnation / — sound of squirt bottle / — […]
Dreaming Plants
Writing, ring-toss ’round the rosies, limits of imagination, checkerboard pattern of climbing vines straightened with Backbone Growing all through the night bedroom, the jungle, where the wild things are & limits unlimited, the mind unbound untwisted untwisting the madness free associating and unwinding on these small pages Cranking out the thoughts like so many fireworks […]
Reality Bubbles, Rootedness, Clouding of Consciousness – Postcard Poems
This island reality or that tunnel reality or that life experience bubble or another media panorama or social nexusAll the written word is by human hands Rootedness with your feet in the here & now & your head sensing both the near & present & the far horizons or might besWhether skyscraper, coal mine, or […]
Policy Ideas to Unite Our Communities
One of two main text/image blocks I’m currently printing & attaching to my postcards (although this one has no image, I had too much to say!). The stuff handwritten on the left edge and the ‘fortune cookie’ glyph sequence are unique to each card. The other one has the last paragraph from this text block […]
Copies 20 Bucks a Pop
A rare post by me with a lot of rhyming – Not based on real events – Original post date 12/2/2016
“All that which we cannot see, /
Opens paths to mystery /
Inner feeling ever shifts /
What before & what betwixt? / […]”
Something Which Will Affect Everyone including Louisville / Neighborhood Non-profits
AI summary of post text (but not video) from Wordpress: The post opposes a bill that would allow the Treasury Secretary to label non-profits as ‘terrorist supporting’ without evidence. It encourages activism to safeguard essential community services, civil rights, and the rights of medical professionals and patients. Concerns are raised about potential authoritarian implications of the bill.
World Ocean Review 8 is Out: The Ocean – A Climate Champion? How to Boost Marine Carbon Dioxide Uptake
The World Ocean Review has released World Ocean Review 8: The Ocean – A Climate Champion? How to Boost Marine Carbon Dioxide Uptake. This is a peer-reviewed (but not original research) publication which is put together like a textbook accessible for a general reading audience. You can read it online, download it as one or several PDFs, or order a paper copy free of charge (and free shipping!).
A Nation’s Interlude
The driftwood of our lives
Washed up on some foreign shore
We glistened
But the sun was not amiable
It was fierce […]