1. I dreamt all night that I was filling out a form to report how the January 6th insurrection affected me. I kept having to start over or get a new form to fill out. 2. When I lost you in Paris / we were both naïve / not to have made a plan / […]
When a birth is happening All of the universe Coalesces to attend So it is with someone’s death Time opens the doorway As it so wonts To allow Passage of leaving As we wait upon, As we attend The slipping away of a body The soul prepares For union Once again Being with Monika Watching […]
_________Wordless Wednesday
We biked up to the top of Mill Mountain from the Roanoke River Greenway. It was a steep switch-back climb. I Ieft Joe in the dust because my bike has an electric motor and his does not. At the top is the world’s largest man-made star. Erected in 1949, the Mill Mountain Star sits 1,045 […]
_____Wordless Wednesday
1. I was playing Old Maid with my youngest grandson and wondered out loud what a comparable word for an old maid would be for a man, and he suggested, “Old Butler.” It took me a moment. 2. As we played cards, my eldest grandson played some Master of Puppets Metallica on guitar. 3. Thug […]
There was a lot of green to be seen at McDaniel’s Tavern at Buffalo Mountain Brewery last night and a new brew called Lucky Charm. I was already lucky because I had just come from The Great Clover Hunt with Muriel Alderman at Floyd’s Center for the Arts and found my first wild four-leaf clover. […]
Life is a number’s game A countdown to morning where I re-member myself and start over each day I have dark thoughts I told a woman in a dream She said don’t say dark The dark is fertile Life force is fuel and time is invisible A broken mirror of chaos and order She said […]
1. Because of my dyscalculia, Joe says, “If you were a band your name would be “Wrong Direction” instead of “One Direction.” 2. The new goal of my poetry readings is: “Reading Poetry that Jack Has Never Heard.” 3. I’ve read with carpenter poet Jack Callan at his Fairmount Five readings in Norfolk, as one […]
Daylight Saved Daffodils Chilled Bouquet on Ice Snow Kidding
A groove to move. The Parachute Brigade Lands at Dogtown. Thanks for the dance music!
But it was Knitting Bee and Scrabble Social at the Floyd Country Store, a homey hub for lunch hour clubs.
