Where I’ve been

I’ve been exploring my new home, Portland, OR and trying not to allow too much time to bring upon uncreative funkiness but it happens.  Been doing a ton of bike riding, which has kept my spirits up quite a bit, amazing to have such bikable weather into November.   Have discovered some great coffee [...]

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bridges and bypasses

crawl up and over and through this city
across the muddy bottomed river
and so much rust and pulp
heading for the columbia
and the pacific
arches and trusses,
drawbridges and spans of concrete
somehow graceful in their engineered form
spanning voids, carrying cars over
industrial riverbanks and salvaged green
spaces wearing engineered names like
esplenade and storm-water retention roofs
i sit in a north facing,
climate controlled
palace
waiting [...]

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A World of Sky and Cloud

i am a twisted fish
a fish longing for a world
beyond all these stones,
weeds and bubbles
a fish longing for
the sharp pierce
of something new
a glimpse at a world
beyond fins and gills
to a world of sky and cloud
and you
a heron
walking on water
legs like reed grass
or tiny pilings
drove your skilled beak
into my life, giving
me all I longed for
when i [...]

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2BRO2B

Just finished a quick read of Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s short story, “2BRO2B’, (read it at Project Gutenburg)  a not-so quaint distopia set in a world not entirely unlike ours in which certain ‘population control’ measures have been put in place.  It’s been a while since I’ve read any Vonnegut, not since the 2008 posthumous release [...]

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