Tag: politics

I Vote Because – VoteForward.org

Vote Forward (https://votefwd.org) connects volunteers to voters to increase voter turnout without resorting to partisanship. I have updated my statement that I’ve used on Vote Forward letters and also in my own postcard campaigns. It’s included below. I still have some of the Victory 2024 postcards left and I have been printing out and gluesticking […]

Night Notes

“Night Notes”, a poem with irregular rhythm. First draft was 2/2/2017, has been extensively cut down because parts were mostly incoherent. A movement awakened, a crowd exposed.Who holds the loudspeakers? Whoweathers the trolls? How long dothey carry? How long hold the seams?What must think the neighbors, andwhat words do they speak? Whatmethods to mend? What […]

The Revolt, Ever to Collect Its Due

A poem with a more concrete narrative than most from my book Synaptic Syntactic. Read more from Synaptic Syntactic by checking out the posts tagged Synaptic Syntactic. Buy the whole book in one neat offline package with no clicking around page loads at BookBaby or Synaptic Syntactic on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, […]

Threatening Cloudbursts / Don’t Let Them Steal Your Joy

Haiku from my postcard art and activism project, ongoing since 12/30/2015 spin cycle machinesdont let them steal joy from youcharms, sparkles, & stars threatening cloudburstsDont let them steal joy from youKindness increments transfer of limitssparkling infinitesimalsfragments of kindness happily dancingnow dont let them steal our joytoday is a new day featured image source material: Thorn […]

“Pick Cards from a Hat / Base it on a Faith” – 7 postcard haiku / 5 postcards, some fun memes

Base it on a faith // We won’t be going back now // Each day further on — Great times of puzzles // Interesting times’ dilemmas // Serious times rejoice — STOP Pick cards from a hat // Make policy assignments // No one can predict — STOP Schizophrenia // But of splendor, not of […]

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 […]