Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

positive vibes from NH - strong juju on your side

NPR used to periodically hold a writing contest they called Three Minute Fiction, in which they'd solicit stories of 600 words or less (that could be read aloud in 3 minutes). There were often additional constraints placed. The first one I submitted had to begin with "Some people swore the house wa...

an accident of geometry and angular momentum this spinning top on which we live rolling around its little star snow shadows shorten days lengthen and warmth returns ice melts seeds awaken leaves unfurl and the forests come alive with sounds flying things croaking things singing things life resurrect...

graduation day!
baccalaureate in basic obedience
sit stay down come
leave it
drop it
wait
extra credit:
this way
let's go
classroom work A-
(real world work C+)
parking lot melee
classmates sniffing butts
see you next semester

broken ribs three times do not bind yourself up you need good blood flow to heal Yup, Dr. Google says let it heal on its own, while managing the pain. I find ibuprofen by day and spiced rum by night to be effective therapy. Moderate exercise seems to help, too. broken bones every 20 years - ankle, ...

watching Kane
and not my feet -
broken rib!

cargo shorts
the unfashion statement
but they don't constrict sweaty legs
the way jeans do
on hikes
and all those pockets
that fill with twigs!

just in time
to block august sun -
forest green

oh, spring morning
dog and I sit outside
in silent communion
unlike the phoebes
and ovenbirds
(and is that a veery?)
chattering like tenement mums
hanging out the wash
I sip my coffee
he chews a stick
no words exchanged
none needed
to share this moment
of two animals in repose
worshipping the sun

4 am
a distant owl calls
the dog growls

Spirits are alive I could hear Carole Jean For weeks after she died Then a beaded Indian bracelet That she gave me and I lost In Baltimore mysteriously Appeared in Frederick beneath My work table....last time I had contact With her spirit, a going away present .......perhaps......???...... another ...

her ear
delicate
as an apricot

pearls unclasped
drop
into heaven

gossamer fabric
falls away

saw wrote:tI'm dead sure no one on their death bed ever says, " I only have one regret in my life,..that I didn't keep a spotless house. "......or a weedless yard....

"My biggest regret is that I didn't spend enough time at the office...."

the older I become
the more love I find
in the simplest things

(thanks, wire - appreciate your comment)

oh yeah, man jammin' cookbook searched, read, and shut now it's time for me 'n Miles to do our thing him on that lonely horn me in the kitchen "what? no garlic?" must be a typo it ain't food til it's got the garlic so in it goes and maybe a little jalapeno and maybe more than a little let's jam let'...