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September 2025

How did we give up the stars?
They used to sprawl across the night skies messengers from beyond time & space & understanding telling us stories about ourselves in their precise…
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Let's make America...
More bumper-sticker poetry
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Seeking a path through the wilderness that is now
a poem or a prayer or a plea, take your pick
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The waterfall
In the dream I dream a waterfall is splashing water cascading down steep cliffs plummeting to unseen depths cold clear purifying ecstatic a stream of…
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Addled by distant starlight
There must be a middle ground between stars and subterranean depths the light of distant galaxies and the fire of molten lava beneath our feet. Again…
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Looking for patterns lurking right in front of us
It's a surprise, isn't it how hard it is to see what's right in front of you trace in a sea of details a pattern learn how the small things add up to…
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Writing political postcards on a sunny day under a pale blue sky amid a miasma of gloom
the sky is implausibly blue impossibly clear and my eyelids are drooping as I write political postcards on a sunny September afternoon in blue ink as…
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Even if
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Evict him!
Like you, perhaps, I’ve been a bit distracted lately.
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August 2025

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