Love’s not always pink–It’s what you feel and livenot what you think.Sometimes it’s what you giveor are allowed to takeor nothing you can havefor someone else’s sake. Love’s not always song–its voice not always heardor clear and strong.Sometimes it’s just absurdand makes no kind of senseOr it speaks without a word,has neither rhyme nor tense. …
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Raw: Summer Creek
Silt settles in the summer creekover hard-wedged woodand the largish stubborn stoneslaid bright and barewhen vernal torrents raged:ripped raw the bed,tore out old banks,walkwaysand little bridges–wild waters shattered, scattered… Recut pathwaysand the landscapein the violence of season’s change. The sun is warm now glimmering over the water where leafy branches gaze and tease the eye:The …
Mirrors
Mirrorsreturnwhat’s cast at themreversed. Mirrors,mute,suggestand delude. Mirrorstease and mock. Mirrorsshatter. 2006
Trolls
“Rudeness is the small person’s imitation of power.” There is a troll who occasionally wanders to my posts here, and gives every one of them a one-star rating. This troll probably doesn’t actually read, just has a personal agenda that expresses itself in this petty way. Please, when you read my posts, if, at the …
Lost
This morning as I wokeI recalled the day of sadness I could not bring from memoriesbefore her deathmy mother’s face. Not your facebut something of youas essential and as dearI cannot bring to mind todayand feel the rift has widened nowbeyond my strength to leap. Though I can stand and gazea while longertowards an empty …
Cash or Card: travel finances & documents
One of the major necessities of travel is money management. As it turns out, this can be quite tricky: I was assured by various sources that nearly everyone in China prefers online payments through a thing called wiipay… that no one wants cash. This turned out not to be quite true. Our hotel only accepted, …
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SUMMER THUNDER
Heat comes after the cool of morning down out of a clear blue skythat reaches upwards towards forever. Land bakes underoven-air that parchesgrass and flower,sears the souland wearies hearts and limbs. Over the mountainsbuilding toweringdarkening clouds confoundthe sunbright heatlift windsfling lightning boltsand grumbleand deluge at lastto bludgeon flowersinto the sudden mudbut the grasslikes it. Passing, …
Recipe File: Harvest Soups
Summer harvest soup: veg broth, yellow and zucchini squashes, corn, onion, spiral-cut butternut squash, and some beans been in the freezer too long, and at the end, some bok choi… goodly splash of Yoshida sauce… And added some firm tofu, too, and a dash of salt–not enough to overwhelm the fresh flavor of the veggies, …
California Summer
Summer heat– sweet relief in darkened hall beneath the fan, the rumbling wind, the storm that blew the cool all through the house… I’d catch a chill and die, they claimed. Disbelieving, driven out to play, I’d wait another chance… Summer feet– freed from socks and kedsnot always sufficiently aware of bees among the clovers …
Journal: Home Garden Report
I harvested all the ripe tomatoes today and had them with my breakfast. Cherry tomatoes… 3! And there are a couple of bell peppers growing nicely, which are green now, but will, I think, go red later on. The squash flower on prolifically, but I am not seeing much in the way of actually squash …
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