Another Shameless Poetry Post

Summer Clearing We pick locusts sliding fresh from the dunes like little Saint John the Baptists wandering in our wildness. Our little wilderness, sanctuaried by a wheat truck and a chain, arrives each time the metal-gray auger slips under the patch of dust- blue prairie sky.

Standing at the Threshold of the Fire Flower

This would have, like, cost us $1,000,000 twenty years ago. I found vNES online today.  It’s amazing how technology has gotten us to the point where something that brought so much excitement, sleepovers at Ned’s and Adam’s homes, and persistently sore thumbs could become so mundane and compact as to be virtualized on the net.  Available now, without having to blow [...]

October, and kingdoms rise, and kingdoms fall

We approach our gathering, and I’m enjoying the anticipation. I look forward to speaking with you all. It’s been a long couple of weeks, one of which was spent on the road in New Jersey for the Dodge Poetry Festival (anyone who has viewed Bill Moyers’ special The Language of Life knows the Dodge Festival) [...]

Classic Jazz Music Thursday

My favorite jazz musician this week.  Not a new release, but hopefully one well-received and/or revisited. John Coltrane | Giant Steps 01. Giant Steps02. Cousin Mary03. Countdown04. Spiral 05. Syeeda’s Song Flute 06. Naima 07. Mr. P.C. 08. Giant Steps 09. Naima 10. Cousin Mary 11. Countdown 12. Syeeda’s Song Flute

Finished

Dear friends: Just a note to let you know that at last I finished Gandhi’s autobiography (whew!). Good but tedious at times. It does not even cover the latter part of his life when he really drew the most recognition. I also recently re-read a book I had first read in NY, called the Ninemile [...]

Starring: The Master Bath

In this part of Texas you can’t throw a rock in the air with out hitting at indie film maker. Last weekend an indie script writer landed on our porch and asked if she could use our bathroom – as a location. When our house was on the market a few years ago this script [...]