Consider the Chinyingi Footbridge

Excerpt from the award winning 2023 novel Community Board by Tara Conklin, used without permission, pages 164-168 [ Blogger’s note: The footbridge, Brother Crispin, the fatal accident and the story of building it are all real. Darcy Clipper and Marcus Dash-La Grand are of course fictional. Community Board is a novel ] [ . . […]

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 […]

Ooohh … Sick burn

Volodomyr Zelensky and JD Vance appear in Wikipedia’s top 5 English most read articles today, upstaging Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I’ve never seen Elon Musk in that list and I don’t *think* I’ve seen DJT in it. Still, a tragedy for Ukraine (&& now Trump’s ego). Overheard American Ukraine War blogger Jake Broe from […]

Postcard Poems – selected recents sent to Congresspersons & to a little town in Tennessee (because I felt like it)

Suspension of beliefConsider the counterfactualWhat would have brought it about?What would it be like while it was happening?What implications and consequences would it have?Ask a voter. See the wheels turning. Too many chancesEasy chancesChances not to screw upSquandered, Wasted, turned to Wilful, Mindless DestructionBreak the Government!By all means!Feel the consequences[… time to switch parties …] […]

Iris’ Pathless Void of Dreamspace footway (in 8 postcard poems)

Theoretically(& it’s also perfectly practical!)Each lightning strike of the stormEqualsOne soul awakened& Set ablazeOn fire with passion Helium Dreams& Neon DawnsCobalt Darkness& Lithium MoonlightThis, above all………. <write your answer on your heart & hold it close- > Incremental catapultsBit of an oxymoronContradiction in termsIn a test of lucidity vs. dreamspaceWho do you wager wins? In […]

More New Postcard Poems

More new postcard poems. A more complete example of the format pictured: Threading through the sequence of a day is the sequence of a life, like thread stitching, passing through cloth. It gets the job done, cleanly or messily. Onwards! To the final puzzle There is no magic solution of us We are Earthbound Animals […]

New Postcard Poems (& design in use since August 2024)

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Today, We Are Lucky

[…] objectively, I was a very, very lucky person and it was important to remind myself of this fact or else risk a self-absorption so complete that I might actually disappear into my own navel. /// I am not unlucky, I said aloud. I have a home; I have parents who love me, despite their recent abandonment; I have food; I have strong legs and a brain that works (usually) and my teeth are fairly […]