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• Five Haiku Gone Awry

  

  one-winged seed drops, twirling to earth, in slant descent twisted petals painted by textured brush fall as one porch-sitter views a corn crib and red barn;... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Philippine Chinese Spiritual Temple

  This entry was posted in Philippines, photographs, Photos, pictures, Taoism, Tourism, travel and tagged Cebu, Cebu City, Chinese Folk Religion, Philippine... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Wild Boys by William S. Burroughs

  Amazon page This is a work of the Beat novelist best known for "The Naked Lunch." It's one of those dystopian novels (like "1984") that makes for a strange... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Foamy Sky by Miklós Radnóti

  

  Foamy Sky the Major Poems of Miklos Radnoti A Bilingual Edition by Miklós Radnóti My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page The short life of Miklós Radnóti was... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Carl Lutz (1895-1975) by György Vámos

  

  Carl Lutz by György Vámos My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page (only the French edition is currently showing) Carl Lutz was a Swiss diplomat assigned to... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Dissolving Past

  

  I've heard it speculated that all times exist at once, and that our consciousness merely shines a light on a sequence of nows. But it sure feels like the past... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Frosted Glass

  

  I knew I was old when, upon seeing a frosted windowpane, I felt no urge to plow my finger through it. The cost of a cold finger tip didn't feel worth it for... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Metaphorical Sailor

  

  The gruff sailor said, "No sail and she just floats all lazy like. No rudder and she's a missile to nowhere." I nodded. "You see, you need strong sails AND a... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• First Eclogue: Flow, Interupted

  

  Thru-hiking a sheep-cropped pasture, I spied a shepherd in repose, in the shadow of a boulder. I asked, "Do you know which way it flows?" "It flows? What... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

  The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones My rating: 5 of 5 stars Release: May 19, 2020 Amazon page Stephen Graham Jones's new book shows the unfolding... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• Haiku on Music

  

  listless drift metronomic mast sweeps the sea's mute tune snapping flags halyard and hook ting the pole spastic anthem creek burble amid the cedars stream... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Lonely Boat

  

  The languid roll of the boat signaled loneliness - silently but steadily. Was it the inseparable connection of wave and hull - each feeling that, despite the... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: The Revolution of Donald Duck & the Anchormen

  

  Oh! Cast off these khaki shackles! Like Don Duck, pants raise my hackles. I'd chuck my slacks in the river Styx, show all Hades my bag of tricks. No more this... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: On “Walk On, Ye Doomed”

  

  Radnóti wrote, "Walk On, Ye Doomed" [Járkálj Csak, Halálraítélt!] in 1936 - Eight years before he was force marched to death by Nazis. And I am... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• DAILY PHOTO: Church of Mary Magdalene

  This tower is one end of the old Church of Mary Magdalene. The rest of the church (save foundations) was destroyed. These days the structure goes by the name... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Kurtz & Marlow of the Mind

  

  Everyone has a darkness to navigate. I chased my Kurtz into the river's savage tracts - steamboat long since left behind - portaging to lands above the catarac... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine

  A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page This is a great little guide for a person... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: The Weird Ed. by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer

  The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories by Jeff VanderMeer My rating: 5 of 5 stars Amazon page For a book themed by such a niche genre, stories of... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• BOOK REVIEW: Prescriptive Stretching by Kristian Berg

  Prescriptive Stretching by Kristian Berg My rating: 4 of 5 stars Amazon page Many people have problems that they are only aware of through symptoms like head... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL

• POEM: Orange Jelly Fungus

  

  Its alien orange gleamed across a mid-winter forest. The only thing - save shamrock green moss girding the base of trees - that begged attention in that... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2020 SOCIETY, TRAVEL