6 days ago
December 16, 2007
wood day
Got up, fed frannie the cat, started fire in wood stove, made bowl of granola and toast & bologna sandwich and boiled water on woodstove for 2 cups instant coffee and read Farenheit 451; swept up, tested & strung up 5 strings of christmas lights, put cat out, washed dishes, made noodles and beans and beef veggie soup, watched episode of Sherlock Holmes, brought in wood from garage, found cat, put out cat, worked on dozen webpages of my site, read Funny Times newspaper, listened to some of A Christmas Carol. Wind blowing, boiled water on woodstove, listened to Prairie Home Companion 2 times, cat at the window, let cat in, work more on webpages, cat sleeping in front of fire, fed fire all day
November 15, 2007
travelling
Noisy freezing snow & sneet, cat on the carpet, red wool plaid, breaking up wood, "wandering thirteen valleys crying out, it coulda been me". Two nites ago warmer than it had been, cottontail bunny hopping around in headlights, 2 dogs run in front of the truck, one dark right before the model railroad church ( Uncommon Carriers), man running across street with coca cola. Kitty ignores her water bowl and drinks out of the giant green plastic watering can
November 12, 2007
cold hard dark
Peals of thunder and large leaves falling fast.
A lot of raining, little kitty makes itself at home half under a sleeping bag, cooked squash for supper, late for the nursing home in the black cold hard dark, in the black hard rain
A lot of raining, little kitty makes itself at home half under a sleeping bag, cooked squash for supper, late for the nursing home in the black cold hard dark, in the black hard rain
October 13, 2007
No War No More for you and me
No War No More book is now available here: click to view at authorhouse.com
Description:
These are poems, essays, artwork and photos for the cause of peace. We take a stand for peace, independently and collectively, artistically and politically. In these times it is imperative not to let slip through one's hands the opportunity to say again and again, with whatever means possible, creative and peaceful, that war is wrong, that love is the only path to peace, justice and freedom, and that we will not stray from this path no matter the consequences. This idea fed this project and I hope will feed the minds and hearts of those who share in our efforts by reading this book. A.F.Jenkins is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism & a peace activist. Her photojournalism can be seen at www.allreelimages.com Greenwood/Blue Lotus Press and No War No More grew out of the ideas and hopes of a few activists in the Mahoning Valley in Ohio. The philosophy of our press is rooted in a Buddhist, environmentalist and social consciousness.
Product Details:
Printed: 92 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink
ISBN: 9781434309839
Publisher: Greenwood Blue Lotus Press
Copyright: © 2007 Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
These are poems, essays, artwork and photos for the cause of peace. We take a stand for peace, independently and collectively, artistically and politically. In these times it is imperative not to let slip through one's hands the opportunity to say again and again, with whatever means possible, creative and peaceful, that war is wrong, that love is the only path to peace, justice and freedom, and that we will not stray from this path no matter the consequences. This idea fed this project and I hope will feed the minds and hearts of those who share in our efforts by reading this book. A.F.Jenkins is a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism & a peace activist. Her photojournalism can be seen at www.allreelimages.com Greenwood/Blue Lotus Press and No War No More grew out of the ideas and hopes of a few activists in the Mahoning Valley in Ohio. The philosophy of our press is rooted in a Buddhist, environmentalist and social consciousness.
Product Details:
Printed: 92 pages, 6" x 9", perfect binding, black and white interior ink
ISBN: 9781434309839
Publisher: Greenwood Blue Lotus Press
Copyright: © 2007 Standard Copyright License
Language: English
Country: United States
preview only here:
October 07, 2007
too warm
Kids screaming in the too warm early dark; too warm the spider ponders the bounty of tiny gnat snacks filling its web; lights are on and the pool balls click: snickery dickery
Too warm, perspiring on the photo-maker, on the photo-taker, sun fries and our skin crawls, earth has a fever and us is viral
All we can envision is cupcakes, sweetcakes, wooden rocking chairs and a harmonica that gives you pnuemonia
"we're bringing in the sheaves" john-barley-corn, squirrels arguing in the oak leaves, and chipmunks under the wood pile, squealing
The heart-shaped pink-coloured catfood is gone but who ate it? Doug says, "meadow brother," coughs and pushes in another Stargate
All the Leaves Are Green and autumn will come with a shattering crash...little do we know.
Too warm, perspiring on the photo-maker, on the photo-taker, sun fries and our skin crawls, earth has a fever and us is viral
All we can envision is cupcakes, sweetcakes, wooden rocking chairs and a harmonica that gives you pnuemonia
"we're bringing in the sheaves" john-barley-corn, squirrels arguing in the oak leaves, and chipmunks under the wood pile, squealing
The heart-shaped pink-coloured catfood is gone but who ate it? Doug says, "meadow brother," coughs and pushes in another Stargate
All the Leaves Are Green and autumn will come with a shattering crash...little do we know.
September 06, 2007
chaos smells bad
"'The chaos smells very bad,'... p.352
Watch out for art, Crake used to say. As soon as they start doing art we're in trouble. Symbolic thinking in any kind would signal downfall, in Crake's view. Next they'd be inventing idols, and funerals, and graven goods, and the afterlife, and sin, ...and kings, and then slavery and war. "p.361
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (New York: Doubleday, 2003) , p. 352, p. 361.
Sending an unknown dark seed spirally down the drain, an oppressive sense of doom descends--a vision that heaves outward, "I can see the end and its about thirty miles from here..."
July 11, 2007
walk of golden things
cicadas begin to sing walking back from Girard-town we see a Baltimore oriole brilliant from the viaduct over the railroad and also goldenroad (or goldenrod...) blooms now
June 04, 2007
bricks and stones
just a random check of contacts' latest photos popped this into view while just happened to have WWOZ playing , thanks Samantha ( her music place ) Patti Smith just came on with a stuttering promo for "community" radio as opposed to "Public" radio (yahooie). The deejays are great...JellyRollJustice is coming up next, then it's Problem Child ("Wake up with the Problem Child in the morning and your problems will go away")...Tom Waits (singing not a DJ), other singers:"take me to the electric chair", "dig my grave with a silver spoon" and "please help my brothers in Vietnam"...
http://www.flickr.com/people/qichao/ Bricks photo is by amanda qichao who has terrific work displayed on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/people/qichao/ Bricks photo is by amanda qichao who has terrific work displayed on Flickr
June 03, 2007
June 02, 2007
windstorm
raining and storming llllllllllllll.............llllllllll high wind gusts ripping the limbs off trees, sadly. A baby coon cute as a brown-eyed button scramples tippy-toed over the porch stairs while its slack-limbed owner holds its leash. A large dog watches with great interest. On the return trip a rabbit glows red-eyed at the edge of the road with a mouthful of lawn still hours before dawn.
May 30, 2007
blue-eyed beauties
Our sweet blue-eyed grass from the backyard lawn now reverted to meadow, they are positively explosive this year, I never saw such tall, thick and heavy clumps, whata lotta precious fiery blue jewels they are, blue-eyed beauties springing all about the yard singing about rain and sunshine and heat. Cardinal sits quietly on the oak branch overhead watching.One can pick them out from all the other non-blooming (don't want to say dull!...) clumps of grasses because the grass leaves are like little thin tiny iris leaves for they are in the iris family. Here is more info: http://2bnthewild.com/plants/H192.htm They say "There are many species under the rubric Blue-eyed Grass with only slight details of their form to distinguish them. They are not grasses of course but instead related to the Irises."
Index- plants in this FamilyIridaceae / Iris
I assume it is the Eastern Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium atlanticum) but will have to measure.
May 22, 2007
Eagle's Nest flying over the land
One of the coolest and most exciting projects I ever participated in was helping to build this trail shelter (Eagle's Nest Shelter, on the Blue Mountain straddling Berks and Schyulkill counties, Pennsylvania.) In this photo (see credits below) I've circled the house we were living in at the time in Bernville. The National Guard based at Fort Indiantown Gap, used this task for practice, using their skycrane to ever-so-gently whisk our precious Swedish-styled scribed construction up to the top of the mountain in the blink of an eye. The Blue Mountain Eagle Climbing Club (based in Reading) led by David Crosby constructed it at Rentschler's Arboretum in Bernville. Cindy Ross and her husband Todd Glatfelter showed us the scribing method, a secure method of sculpting out the logs to hug each other.This photo was taken by Chris Johns, for National Geographic, page 99 in Mountain Adventure: Exploring the Appalachain Trail
c. 1988 by Ron Fisher, photos by Sam Abell illustrations by Alan Singer
Special Publications Division National Geographic Society, Washington D.C.
ISBN 0-87044-668-1
Special Publications Division National Geographic Society, Washington D.C.
ISBN 0-87044-668-1
May 20, 2007
May 12, 2007
May 09, 2007
cathouse
Came across this cathouse on the Palisades of Jersey...note the large bowls of water and milk and heap of pet food..it was a little spooky even in the bright warm sunlight, although it is probably a warm-hearted person at work.May 04, 2007
want candy, we want candy
Lancaster Farm Market goodies from the venerable Green Dragon... the shopkeeper behind the counter was happy to pack us samplers...I can't remember all these flaovors and he said more were on the way, canteloupe being one and sounding yucky....
April 28, 2007
April 20, 2007
blooming
big bed of tiny yellow violets, with arrow shaped leaves and purple stems & parts.
ants on the floor.
forzen inchworm -- or mummified, more likely-- on the door frame.
ants on the floor.
forzen inchworm -- or mummified, more likely-- on the door frame.
April 10, 2007
April 08, 2007
Easter Bunny
The Easter Bunny is 2 doors down our street in someone's yard this Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday...they did a nice job sculpting the snowbunny...
April 07, 2007
notes to self edit me
slant 66 album-gregg brown song: Spring and All
Nat merchants album with Wayfarng stranger
warm breath breathing warmth balmy blow blows away senses.
sometimes one gets so tired of being a human on earth, so being just another animal yipping and pipping
silverfish in the bathtub
3/26/2007 4:00 PMcoltsfoot in backyard meadow
"like i kicked little cats around"Rush Limbaugh
I know where the silverfish play
3/29/2007 8:06 PM robins singing so bittersweet
yesterday mornign I had another in the series of The End of The Wolrds dreams again, everyone dropping like flies, floods, ice, disease
considerin'the major feng shui needed for the contents of rooms, living spaces, at dusk occurred that the gods always practicing their feng shui with us --htis one here and tha one here works better and lets throw out the worn out clunky one because nothing can get done in this world
"no borders no fences unbound" buffalo springfield going down
doug and chomsky under the hill where it went down, the shooting + the fear
4/1/2007 8:12 PM sun shone thru house straight thru. fuzzy bunnies fuzzy buns, bzzz bzzz bzzzz
4-2 flower list
4/4/2007 1:21 PM jobs u never think youd have editor,salesman, chef, excavator. gatthering faggots in the muddy woods
robin drying on the line, robin walking the ridgeline ogf the roof. Cold dropping in like november expectatikons
pale sherbert moon htru the pines
4/6/2007 7:52 PM steady wet snow 2nd day in a row. thick green grass showing in hthick patches . Really long icicles.
roasted a hotdog over the wood fire and ate with beans and cornbread
holly brought her borrowed inkle loom
4/8/2007 8 PM pecan pies depleted say dont cry....milling with the homeless heathen orphans us
4/9/2007 4:13 PM burnt lemon Still snowing; a redtailed hawk, a chickade and a cardinal all sing loudlyyy on turn . 89 inches of snow for season at Warren airport. and in the evening robins' trilling retiurns
4/10/2007 12:27 PM snowflurries house wrens.walking over girard bridge see blue heron and cottontail rabbit bouncing about
4/14/2007 1:04 PM Imus called cheney war ciminal repeatedly. blue heron tracks in mud on rock at river, heard ravens over the river valley, coltsfoot & arbutus barely open
4/15/2007 4:37 PM wind howling like a voice, ice particles falling from the sky
4/20/2007 4:46 PM spring beauties, bloodroot finishing, mertensia still budding, no full bloom, furry buttercup, 2 kinds toothwort, trillium still in bud inly, tiny yellow violet with spear-shaped leaves, marsh marigold,trout lilies (yellow), dutchman leaves, twin berries
4/23/2007 10:16 PM ants onthe tile in the morning, tornadoa warning in Pennsylvania
old september notes trip:yello tick-trefoil, queen annes lace, pink swet pea,orange daylilies goldenrod,pink crown vestch, white assters, Bastille DAy GET DATE, chew mailpouch tobacco
5/2/2007 Vickers nature reseerve--set at poolside long time waiting for peepers to resume, watvch lg frogs, some call; watch yellow warbler long time going around in thr shrubbery no clear virew,
5/5/2007 shenks ferry heard scarlet tanager
5/6/2007 meet the same porkie on the same place on 949, exchange same pleasantries
5/12/2007 late on 80 saw long slow meteor
5/15/2007 cardinal on head of dionysus --reading Barbara enrmerteich Dancing in the streets dianysus not about sex
and big red dog too
5/16/2007 11:16 PM dark matter evidence and up on the roof ladder nails big wind spring wind. Clever Jerry Fallwell Fall well, Jerry.out of the ashes of flint strikes sparks that light up the space in ypour head
5/17/2007 11:17 PM big red dog and fat bifg black dog
5/18/2007 cleomes are up; hear barred owl in the backyard
5/21/2007 8:40 PM what a waste of carbon--- & sometimes u forget which compromise was made for what and what price or how cheaply
may 29 fox or scat dissolves onto rock in the boulder field revealing rabbit foot with fur, moth wing and a lot of white shell bits, a shard of bone
6/2/2007 12:56 AM every now & then get a whiff of the Beginning, the smell of the long ago beginning
in th enorthern dead city & all i got was tis lousy purple tote
7-11 cicadas wlak see goldenrod and baltimore oriole
7/13/2007 6:50 PM clothes smell of smoke, like poor people, good poor, ---there are no good poeple
9/07/2007 magnolia blooming in Firt Lee
9-9-07 When did the name of campus police change from officially titled “Public Saftey” to “Security”
Magnolias blooming September 8, 2007
The seed on the sink and the end of the world
The jeep scene isn’t as real as my photos of it…the ground isn’t real because I’m not going to pull up the macadam and figure anything out
“he was tall, my everlasting soul” Ruby at Donna's
9/12/2007 Alex the Atwood mentioned parrot (Oryx and crake) dies;blu heron long & slow,, reddtail low swoop, clean & stiff-haired clean pink pigs on theirn way to heaven
10-06-07 74 degrees at 9 pm. hot and polish, children running with guns and chainsaws, a bold little girl waves her doll. Pacing the roof shilnglres , her head in the clouds, steering wheeel of the volkwagon belolow. Invasion of the cold bugs. Listewning to Odetta late sat nite. Morning started with larvae losing its balance on wooded kitchen table & tumbling backwards, whatcha get for leaving your acorn...
10-07-07 kids screaming in the too warm early dark; too warm the spider ponders the bounty of tiny gnat snacks filling its web;lights are on and the pool balls click snickery dickery too warm perspiring on the photo-maker on the photo-taker, sun fries and our skin crawls, earth has a fever and us is viral
all we can envision is cupcakes, sweetcakes, wooden rocking chairs and a harmonica that gives you pnuemonia
"we're bringing in the sheaves", john-barley-corn, squirrels arguing in the oak leaves, and chipmunks under the wood pile, squealing. The heart-shaped pink-coloured catfood is gone but who ate it? Doug says, "meadow brother," coughs and pushes in another Stargate.
All the Leaves Are Green and autumn will come with a shattering crash...little do we know.
10-08-07 what digitally impaired artfreak has not gone int glide upon simulataneous;ly drewamweaver supper dark headlites
10-09-07 lambs' ears at the door, dark hard-rock skies (colour?). spuce. onion fumes released gathered up nall the sicness ibn the house & hauled iyt out t o the edge of the road and threw tit in thre treash dumoper and wernt to the landfill and drained into the water supply and made th awolhole world sik. CAbn tell which waterris which the one from the faucet tastes like algae and th eone from the fridge pitcher tastes like iodine. sick to my stomach all day. all dya they cleared trees and stuff we watche wiht binoculars
10-11-07 for a minute we do not know what that odd sound isit is the sound of rain on the vent piipe cap falling in the dark cold. Our throats hurt, all of them. It is a race to keep up with not havinf something in our shopping bag of brown nabga grovceries carried in the door and on the wooden tablkel not to have a recllaed suspecte dof contaminatin ffod prooduct. By the time you go & come back form store has chnaged.
10-17-07 infection CRI radio shartwave croatia radio balllgames fundraising a very long press confernecec from the 14 yr old shooter in cleveland incident, ball games the Cleveland Indians playoffs, Burned a plate until it snapped, the spoons stove tile chipped . Doug foiund a dead tiny sparrow yesterday stiiting like asleep
10-18-07 tiny ants come in the nite to my gingrer orange lemon water in th ecup near my bed In the morning watch chickadees flitter about. warm wind blows. right ear has a continual reverberartion of every sound although only the higher pitches are very noticeable--like a fast echo in a valley. Very first writing on a "found " laptop pc in my own little preslumber nesting in blankets and pillows,,,coughing,,coughing ,,throat is tender over left-hand nodes,,,rib muscles get strained,,,th epc is stuck in timewarp stoned but is fine typwewriter. still warm today. forgot to eat last nite--pllanning on a milkshake tha tt did not materialize, i forgot to eat & got woker up twicw by tummy in pain --past the growkling & akll--- so little kids and families do go to bed hungry in america
10-19-07 scattering the dried asetr seeds they get stuck to my pile slippers; empty bottles coughing syrup, juiced lemons, ail of gingerly ailed. Its windy & there was lightening last nite
10-24?--day of the hundred train whistles and int to the night the whidstle out of the vallley
10-28-07 kitty in the attic
10-27-07the soundtrack to their lives is your beautiful by a pop singerhe sings it sleepily in th emorning getting in the car and it plays out of the [arked car
10-29?monday-07 a cirping sparrow the right temp & light and tone and it is ion the trail in the edgy solo late fall backpacks looking fo rth trail in brushy edge of woods , with ice on the edges of the brooks, frost on the brambles
11-03 doug showed me comet in the northeast after 9 near perseus Arrianne watched us curiously peeking aroiuund the corner of her porch. Every morning the big maple was a dif colour and now its lost most its leaves
11-05 thunder today and b ig drops; grey all day. Kitty came in yesterday and doug played bob dylan for her
11-06-2007 first blowing snowflakes, very windy and cold,kitty came in again but didnt eat much
11-12-07 peals of thunder and large leaves fallling fast. A lot of raining, little kitty makes itself at home half under a sleeping bag, cooked suash, late for the nursoing home in the black cold hard dark, in the black hard rain
11-15-07 noisy freezing snow & sneet, cat on the carpet, red wool plaid, breaking up wood, "wandering thirteen valleys crying out, it coulda been me". Two nites ago warmer than a bit, bunny hopping around in heradlights, 2 dogs one adark right before the model railroad church ( McPhee book here), , man running across street with coke. Kitty ignores her water bowl and drinks out of the giant green plastic watering can
11-20-07 the house has a hole in it thru which my kitty comes. sharp-shinned hawk in villlage on postal wlak thru roasting meat smells and cars full of driveways. he needs sweet scratch tunes to sooth the decay smack-gnarling grinding stabbing through. Huge yellow leaves sent down by trees to me, pages in all the books that people won't read
11-25-07 heard coyotes over towards the far northwest of Mcdonald at 3:30 am eerie yowls then yips then howls and then maybe all the area dogs replying--moon was very full and below 30 degrees, water freezing in the buckets
11-27--07 after dark heard what sounded like f lock after flock of snowgeese going overhead heading south calling; stars bright & large but lots of fast moving clouds; very gusty winds, square of moon on the tile floor
12-16-2007Got up, fed frannie tha cat, made bowl of granola and toat & bologna sandwich & bioiled water on wooodstove for coffee, 2 cups instant coffee and read Farenheit 451; started fire in wood stove , swept up, tested & strung up 5 strings of christmas lights, put cat out, wshed dishes, made nooodles and beands and beef veg sup , watrched episode of Shrlock Holmes, brough in wood from garage.found cat, put out cat, worked on dozen webpages of my site, read Funny times newspape, listen to some A Chrisstmas Carol. Wind blowinf somer, boiled water on woodstove, listen to Praire home camopanioin 2 times, cat in window, let cat in, work more on webpages, cat sleeping i front of fire, feed fire all day
and cottontail rabbit runs in the night.
March 21, 2008 kestrel on the line, kestrel lifeless on the hard rock highway, kestrel in the sky, Canada goose in a still pond, no leaves only reddish buds, crumblly , swollen streams and rivers, skeins of goose bodies dot the leaden greys, sole redwinged black bird on every tiny tree top, nuthatch hopp, tufted mouse tits inthe hemlocks, jayblues swoop and jump, chickadees , crows everuywhere, new trailing arbutus leaves but no budspicking 2 fields edged with strong pine scarfs, wrapping and clutching -- what is the pine hold? is it because the firat visioons came then and it was a time of hope ("Lordy mercy if there comes a time...') The Desire for wood My brave forsythia looks so promising; found 2 bird nests in the neighbors ancient forsythia hedge. Gravel snow and river. snow aon the high hills, Caution water not drinkable signs posted at Slocum springs, Sawmill burger sign spins, at the harley shop in the forest Support the troops, end the war ("Sally go round the roses, the roses , they cant hurt you") Why doesnt Obama or Hillary talk about class unequalities instead of focusing on the colour of our skins? Mike moore sure talks about the income gap but does not call it class; I'm not sure about Nader although he does talk about eco inequality, listening to the computerized weather voice for part of an hour, coffee-trucks: truck-coffees. Fluff of a dead skunk across from the Catholic church on the hill, parishioner steps into the road for the Good Friday service and steps back out of the way of the incoming car, (squeal of the stove door heralds warmth of wood, the firery furnace ), writer strings together spring, resurrection and vampires' undead-ness, and 2 shows deal with techincal descriptions of death by crucifixtion -- what 's the fixation? I like my hotsauce closet very much flaming endorphines of the state, on the sidewalk in the rain a wide wide bandaid wet but never wide enough to cover all the valleys and wooded hills, with snow, ice and discovery. another copper thief starts a fire, its cold , then its warm who's got the cat?, late talk with the northern man out of his watershed, strung out on sere edges , the barren , the stark, slashing, and burning up with art, whirly-gigging a werld dance, poring over words on a page in the long quiet
Wednesday March 27 08, seagulls off the lake which is less than half a block from the Knickerbocker Hotel .
April 7The university of Wisconsin Milwaukee is full of happy energized students. At least 3 times a student was engaged in energetic conversation with an older professor srtopped along the sidewalks -- this on the sunny day. Thursday it flurried most of the day, then began snowing about 3 to 1 inch. Heard a crying bird like a young hawk on top of the one science building. The day before found a bird body below it --- it had speckled brown feathers like a young bird, but its head seemed gone. There is a stack of slanted triangles of concrete outside the planetarium as a sculpture with a plaque : flyash & slag pumice?and ................. mixed in the concrete from a conference in 94. We walked to Noodles chain clarstaurant for yummy ginger lemongrass & curry soup; on the way was a backyard with panes of colored glass set in tall wooden framework on both side . First nite we went to a pizza pub for thin crakcer pizzas & guys ordered us all salads but I had cold bad & hhadnt dslept th e nite before, Steve the assistant after a couple beers kept telling me how awful/tired I looked, but was gushing about the famous experiment he was a litle involved with measuring a spread out wave that was tearing apart the fabric of some molecules, the data being sorted by roomsful of computers in the physics dept. (where the planeatarium is
JUne 11 blue eyed grasses sun heat. cat spit on robin feathers fluttering thru the carpet of , blood on white walls. bunny screams pilgramedges in predawn to the woods. mouth full of snarling teeeth but luckily they ran over the lawn shears heavy in hand even missing one grip. white wild roses spill down . tree frogs new to me(like pirkos in the catalpa) rose breasted singing ("how can I keep my heart from singing/" --maybe this is why theres a why) solved mystery of the kittys growl--at osund of garbage casbs---coons see big one silently it floats in broad daylight
Nat merchants album with Wayfarng stranger
warm breath breathing warmth balmy blow blows away senses.
sometimes one gets so tired of being a human on earth, so being just another animal yipping and pipping
silverfish in the bathtub
3/26/2007 4:00 PMcoltsfoot in backyard meadow
"like i kicked little cats around"Rush Limbaugh
I know where the silverfish play
3/29/2007 8:06 PM robins singing so bittersweet
yesterday mornign I had another in the series of The End of The Wolrds dreams again, everyone dropping like flies, floods, ice, disease
considerin'the major feng shui needed for the contents of rooms, living spaces, at dusk occurred that the gods always practicing their feng shui with us --htis one here and tha one here works better and lets throw out the worn out clunky one because nothing can get done in this world
"no borders no fences unbound" buffalo springfield going down
doug and chomsky under the hill where it went down, the shooting + the fear
4/1/2007 8:12 PM sun shone thru house straight thru. fuzzy bunnies fuzzy buns, bzzz bzzz bzzzz
4-2 flower list
4/4/2007 1:21 PM jobs u never think youd have editor,salesman, chef, excavator. gatthering faggots in the muddy woods
robin drying on the line, robin walking the ridgeline ogf the roof. Cold dropping in like november expectatikons
pale sherbert moon htru the pines
4/6/2007 7:52 PM steady wet snow 2nd day in a row. thick green grass showing in hthick patches . Really long icicles.
roasted a hotdog over the wood fire and ate with beans and cornbread
holly brought her borrowed inkle loom
4/8/2007 8 PM pecan pies depleted say dont cry....milling with the homeless heathen orphans us
4/9/2007 4:13 PM burnt lemon Still snowing; a redtailed hawk, a chickade and a cardinal all sing loudlyyy on turn . 89 inches of snow for season at Warren airport. and in the evening robins' trilling retiurns
4/10/2007 12:27 PM snowflurries house wrens.walking over girard bridge see blue heron and cottontail rabbit bouncing about
4/14/2007 1:04 PM Imus called cheney war ciminal repeatedly. blue heron tracks in mud on rock at river, heard ravens over the river valley, coltsfoot & arbutus barely open
4/15/2007 4:37 PM wind howling like a voice, ice particles falling from the sky
4/20/2007 4:46 PM spring beauties, bloodroot finishing, mertensia still budding, no full bloom, furry buttercup, 2 kinds toothwort, trillium still in bud inly, tiny yellow violet with spear-shaped leaves, marsh marigold,trout lilies (yellow), dutchman leaves, twin berries
4/23/2007 10:16 PM ants onthe tile in the morning, tornadoa warning in Pennsylvania
old september notes trip:yello tick-trefoil, queen annes lace, pink swet pea,orange daylilies goldenrod,pink crown vestch, white assters, Bastille DAy GET DATE, chew mailpouch tobacco
5/2/2007 Vickers nature reseerve--set at poolside long time waiting for peepers to resume, watvch lg frogs, some call; watch yellow warbler long time going around in thr shrubbery no clear virew,
5/5/2007 shenks ferry heard scarlet tanager
5/6/2007 meet the same porkie on the same place on 949, exchange same pleasantries
5/12/2007 late on 80 saw long slow meteor
5/15/2007 cardinal on head of dionysus --reading Barbara enrmerteich Dancing in the streets dianysus not about sex
and big red dog too
5/16/2007 11:16 PM dark matter evidence and up on the roof ladder nails big wind spring wind. Clever Jerry Fallwell Fall well, Jerry.out of the ashes of flint strikes sparks that light up the space in ypour head
5/17/2007 11:17 PM big red dog and fat bifg black dog
5/18/2007 cleomes are up; hear barred owl in the backyard
5/21/2007 8:40 PM what a waste of carbon--- & sometimes u forget which compromise was made for what and what price or how cheaply
may 29 fox or scat dissolves onto rock in the boulder field revealing rabbit foot with fur, moth wing and a lot of white shell bits, a shard of bone
6/2/2007 12:56 AM every now & then get a whiff of the Beginning, the smell of the long ago beginning
in th enorthern dead city & all i got was tis lousy purple tote
7-11 cicadas wlak see goldenrod and baltimore oriole
7/13/2007 6:50 PM clothes smell of smoke, like poor people, good poor, ---there are no good poeple
9/07/2007 magnolia blooming in Firt Lee
9-9-07 When did the name of campus police change from officially titled “Public Saftey” to “Security”
Magnolias blooming September 8, 2007
The seed on the sink and the end of the world
The jeep scene isn’t as real as my photos of it…the ground isn’t real because I’m not going to pull up the macadam and figure anything out
“he was tall, my everlasting soul” Ruby at Donna's
9/12/2007 Alex the Atwood mentioned parrot (Oryx and crake) dies;blu heron long & slow,, reddtail low swoop, clean & stiff-haired clean pink pigs on theirn way to heaven
10-06-07 74 degrees at 9 pm. hot and polish, children running with guns and chainsaws, a bold little girl waves her doll. Pacing the roof shilnglres , her head in the clouds, steering wheeel of the volkwagon belolow. Invasion of the cold bugs. Listewning to Odetta late sat nite. Morning started with larvae losing its balance on wooded kitchen table & tumbling backwards, whatcha get for leaving your acorn...
10-07-07 kids screaming in the too warm early dark; too warm the spider ponders the bounty of tiny gnat snacks filling its web;lights are on and the pool balls click snickery dickery too warm perspiring on the photo-maker on the photo-taker, sun fries and our skin crawls, earth has a fever and us is viral
all we can envision is cupcakes, sweetcakes, wooden rocking chairs and a harmonica that gives you pnuemonia
"we're bringing in the sheaves", john-barley-corn, squirrels arguing in the oak leaves, and chipmunks under the wood pile, squealing. The heart-shaped pink-coloured catfood is gone but who ate it? Doug says, "meadow brother," coughs and pushes in another Stargate.
All the Leaves Are Green and autumn will come with a shattering crash...little do we know.
10-08-07 what digitally impaired artfreak has not gone int glide upon simulataneous;ly drewamweaver supper dark headlites
10-09-07 lambs' ears at the door, dark hard-rock skies (colour?). spuce. onion fumes released gathered up nall the sicness ibn the house & hauled iyt out t o the edge of the road and threw tit in thre treash dumoper and wernt to the landfill and drained into the water supply and made th awolhole world sik. CAbn tell which waterris which the one from the faucet tastes like algae and th eone from the fridge pitcher tastes like iodine. sick to my stomach all day. all dya they cleared trees and stuff we watche wiht binoculars
10-11-07 for a minute we do not know what that odd sound isit is the sound of rain on the vent piipe cap falling in the dark cold. Our throats hurt, all of them. It is a race to keep up with not havinf something in our shopping bag of brown nabga grovceries carried in the door and on the wooden tablkel not to have a recllaed suspecte dof contaminatin ffod prooduct. By the time you go & come back form store has chnaged.
10-17-07 infection CRI radio shartwave croatia radio balllgames fundraising a very long press confernecec from the 14 yr old shooter in cleveland incident, ball games the Cleveland Indians playoffs, Burned a plate until it snapped, the spoons stove tile chipped . Doug foiund a dead tiny sparrow yesterday stiiting like asleep
10-18-07 tiny ants come in the nite to my gingrer orange lemon water in th ecup near my bed In the morning watch chickadees flitter about. warm wind blows. right ear has a continual reverberartion of every sound although only the higher pitches are very noticeable--like a fast echo in a valley. Very first writing on a "found " laptop pc in my own little preslumber nesting in blankets and pillows,,,coughing,,coughing ,,throat is tender over left-hand nodes,,,rib muscles get strained,,,th epc is stuck in timewarp stoned but is fine typwewriter. still warm today. forgot to eat last nite--pllanning on a milkshake tha tt did not materialize, i forgot to eat & got woker up twicw by tummy in pain --past the growkling & akll--- so little kids and families do go to bed hungry in america
10-19-07 scattering the dried asetr seeds they get stuck to my pile slippers; empty bottles coughing syrup, juiced lemons, ail of gingerly ailed. Its windy & there was lightening last nite
10-24?--day of the hundred train whistles and int to the night the whidstle out of the vallley
10-28-07 kitty in the attic
10-27-07the soundtrack to their lives is your beautiful by a pop singerhe sings it sleepily in th emorning getting in the car and it plays out of the [arked car
10-29?monday-07 a cirping sparrow the right temp & light and tone and it is ion the trail in the edgy solo late fall backpacks looking fo rth trail in brushy edge of woods , with ice on the edges of the brooks, frost on the brambles
11-03 doug showed me comet in the northeast after 9 near perseus Arrianne watched us curiously peeking aroiuund the corner of her porch. Every morning the big maple was a dif colour and now its lost most its leaves
11-05 thunder today and b ig drops; grey all day. Kitty came in yesterday and doug played bob dylan for her
11-06-2007 first blowing snowflakes, very windy and cold,kitty came in again but didnt eat much
11-12-07 peals of thunder and large leaves fallling fast. A lot of raining, little kitty makes itself at home half under a sleeping bag, cooked suash, late for the nursoing home in the black cold hard dark, in the black hard rain
11-15-07 noisy freezing snow & sneet, cat on the carpet, red wool plaid, breaking up wood, "wandering thirteen valleys crying out, it coulda been me". Two nites ago warmer than a bit, bunny hopping around in heradlights, 2 dogs one adark right before the model railroad church ( McPhee book here), , man running across street with coke. Kitty ignores her water bowl and drinks out of the giant green plastic watering can
11-20-07 the house has a hole in it thru which my kitty comes. sharp-shinned hawk in villlage on postal wlak thru roasting meat smells and cars full of driveways. he needs sweet scratch tunes to sooth the decay smack-gnarling grinding stabbing through. Huge yellow leaves sent down by trees to me, pages in all the books that people won't read
11-25-07 heard coyotes over towards the far northwest of Mcdonald at 3:30 am eerie yowls then yips then howls and then maybe all the area dogs replying--moon was very full and below 30 degrees, water freezing in the buckets
11-27--07 after dark heard what sounded like f lock after flock of snowgeese going overhead heading south calling; stars bright & large but lots of fast moving clouds; very gusty winds, square of moon on the tile floor
12-16-2007Got up, fed frannie tha cat, made bowl of granola and toat & bologna sandwich & bioiled water on wooodstove for coffee, 2 cups instant coffee and read Farenheit 451; started fire in wood stove , swept up, tested & strung up 5 strings of christmas lights, put cat out, wshed dishes, made nooodles and beands and beef veg sup , watrched episode of Shrlock Holmes, brough in wood from garage.found cat, put out cat, worked on dozen webpages of my site, read Funny times newspape, listen to some A Chrisstmas Carol. Wind blowinf somer, boiled water on woodstove, listen to Praire home camopanioin 2 times, cat in window, let cat in, work more on webpages, cat sleeping i front of fire, feed fire all day
and cottontail rabbit runs in the night.
March 21, 2008 kestrel on the line, kestrel lifeless on the hard rock highway, kestrel in the sky, Canada goose in a still pond, no leaves only reddish buds, crumblly , swollen streams and rivers, skeins of goose bodies dot the leaden greys, sole redwinged black bird on every tiny tree top, nuthatch hopp, tufted mouse tits inthe hemlocks, jayblues swoop and jump, chickadees , crows everuywhere, new trailing arbutus leaves but no budspicking 2 fields edged with strong pine scarfs, wrapping and clutching -- what is the pine hold? is it because the firat visioons came then and it was a time of hope ("Lordy mercy if there comes a time...') The Desire for wood My brave forsythia looks so promising; found 2 bird nests in the neighbors ancient forsythia hedge. Gravel snow and river. snow aon the high hills, Caution water not drinkable signs posted at Slocum springs, Sawmill burger sign spins, at the harley shop in the forest Support the troops, end the war ("Sally go round the roses, the roses , they cant hurt you") Why doesnt Obama or Hillary talk about class unequalities instead of focusing on the colour of our skins? Mike moore sure talks about the income gap but does not call it class; I'm not sure about Nader although he does talk about eco inequality, listening to the computerized weather voice for part of an hour, coffee-trucks: truck-coffees. Fluff of a dead skunk across from the Catholic church on the hill, parishioner steps into the road for the Good Friday service and steps back out of the way of the incoming car, (squeal of the stove door heralds warmth of wood, the firery furnace ), writer strings together spring, resurrection and vampires' undead-ness, and 2 shows deal with techincal descriptions of death by crucifixtion -- what 's the fixation? I like my hotsauce closet very much flaming endorphines of the state, on the sidewalk in the rain a wide wide bandaid wet but never wide enough to cover all the valleys and wooded hills, with snow, ice and discovery. another copper thief starts a fire, its cold , then its warm who's got the cat?, late talk with the northern man out of his watershed, strung out on sere edges , the barren , the stark, slashing, and burning up with art, whirly-gigging a werld dance, poring over words on a page in the long quiet
Wednesday March 27 08, seagulls off the lake which is less than half a block from the Knickerbocker Hotel .
April 7The university of Wisconsin Milwaukee is full of happy energized students. At least 3 times a student was engaged in energetic conversation with an older professor srtopped along the sidewalks -- this on the sunny day. Thursday it flurried most of the day, then began snowing about 3 to 1 inch. Heard a crying bird like a young hawk on top of the one science building. The day before found a bird body below it --- it had speckled brown feathers like a young bird, but its head seemed gone. There is a stack of slanted triangles of concrete outside the planetarium as a sculpture with a plaque : flyash & slag pumice?and ................. mixed in the concrete from a conference in 94. We walked to Noodles chain clarstaurant for yummy ginger lemongrass & curry soup; on the way was a backyard with panes of colored glass set in tall wooden framework on both side . First nite we went to a pizza pub for thin crakcer pizzas & guys ordered us all salads but I had cold bad & hhadnt dslept th e nite before, Steve the assistant after a couple beers kept telling me how awful/tired I looked, but was gushing about the famous experiment he was a litle involved with measuring a spread out wave that was tearing apart the fabric of some molecules, the data being sorted by roomsful of computers in the physics dept. (where the planeatarium is
JUne 11 blue eyed grasses sun heat. cat spit on robin feathers fluttering thru the carpet of , blood on white walls. bunny screams pilgramedges in predawn to the woods. mouth full of snarling teeeth but luckily they ran over the lawn shears heavy in hand even missing one grip. white wild roses spill down . tree frogs new to me(like pirkos in the catalpa) rose breasted singing ("how can I keep my heart from singing/" --maybe this is why theres a why) solved mystery of the kittys growl--at osund of garbage casbs---coons see big one silently it floats in broad daylight
March 30, 2007
warm weather brings brightly coloured things
Thanks, Anne!
A single origami from a friend led to many digitally painted variations; here's one to the right, and there are others to see here. }}}}}}}}} (By the way, the original paper piece is second one in from top left.)
Two cardinals fighting in the dusty driveway behind the truck; robins singing choruses morning, noon and night; toads or tree frogs are trilling in the dark.
March 17, 2007
March 14, 2007
February 20, 2007
warm snow, cool air
the backyard at dusk---coming later and later, oh boy!amazing yummy tea, Chai is not new to me, so it must be the "masala" part...
February 04, 2007
Considering the fourth pair of sox
Rattle and thump at the front door but its only the wind
loud sound of clear air over the wings of the C-130 low overhead
Thick Towel against the window blow
3 below lullaby tea
(“ask a stranger why I’m waiting in the chamber of a gun” “ I’d like to be tha b ig black bird sitting in ypoonder tree….I wish Iw was that river rolling on cdown to the sea, I wish I was that cold hard stone” and other songs of ravens)
Cold knees predictions of doom
February 02, 2007
He found a pea in his pocket, in the pocket of his shirt
Prince’s pine, prince in the pines
The schools were closed because of sickness
A dried leaf of mint , remaining scent of summer visitors tossing back their whiskeys among the furniture
Down the dark hollow through the snowy cold, winter train flings –squeals shapes shidft something somewthig ---past at the bottom of the hollow at the end of the winter fhollow lies Spring
In the light of the sewage house where the sewage lives
Thast we have sent
That we have all sent
White cat runs between our cars on the backstreet in the wintery cold in the dark
The white cat between us
Giant wings going down the road –or props of a windmill blades –or thw ings of an angel so big
A man points out that Security is a a type of Theartre now. It is all about feeling, I t is a kabuki dance
Mary must mourne molly
Prince’s pine, prince in the pines
The schools were closed because of sickness
A dried leaf of mint , remaining scent of summer visitors tossing back their whiskeys among the furniture
Down the dark hollow through the snowy cold, winter train flings –squeals shapes shidft something somewthig ---past at the bottom of the hollow at the end of the winter fhollow lies Spring
In the light of the sewage house where the sewage lives
Thast we have sent
That we have all sent
White cat runs between our cars on the backstreet in the wintery cold in the dark
The white cat between us
Giant wings going down the road –or props of a windmill blades –or thw ings of an angel so big
A man points out that Security is a a type of Theartre now. It is all about feeling, I t is a kabuki dance
Mary must mourne molly
January 22, 2007
January 20, 2007
rack straw
It finally has been snowing and acting like January!
My friend Anne has created a website for a new science fiction anthology. Here is her description:
"Rackstraw Press was created in response to the Terrorism Act of 2006 - the controversial ban on the glorification of terrorism in the UK.
This Act is opposed by people from many political parties as an attack on free speech. Government protests that it will only be used if someone directly incites terrorism have been regarded as implausible by lawyers who point to the many other laws which currently cover this action.
Science fiction is a political genre. There are many science fiction writers who have already written novels and stories which could be considered in contravention of the law.... If you care about free speech, have a look at rackstrawpress.org "
My friend Anne has created a website for a new science fiction anthology. Here is her description:
"Rackstraw Press was created in response to the Terrorism Act of 2006 - the controversial ban on the glorification of terrorism in the UK.
This Act is opposed by people from many political parties as an attack on free speech. Government protests that it will only be used if someone directly incites terrorism have been regarded as implausible by lawyers who point to the many other laws which currently cover this action.
Science fiction is a political genre. There are many science fiction writers who have already written novels and stories which could be considered in contravention of the law.... If you care about free speech, have a look at rackstrawpress.org "
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