Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

haunted by dreams those ethereal nighttime visions surreal tales the mundane in drag gibberished messages like the white knight talking backwards long ago visions of unknown import whose memories persist long after the war was fought... the severe white church on a hilltop the steep ocean beach at n...

sunlight returns
the twig's beads of water
have become buds

pick up your fiddle or your kazoo or tambourine and make up some music doesn't matter what as long as it sings join the jam the dance of words begun by wireman (the one you knew as mark colburn) whatever comes to mind whatever moves your soul whatever the moment feels like just jam yeah baby that's ...

 
   
 

 

 

I like this!

and I do so declare... wireman's legacy is not the words but the ethos of the jam we know that words can fail but if propelled by the truth failure can be noble to jam is to try is to jam and if the words ring bravo and if they don't maybe they will next time... perpetual jam is all about ensuring a...

gap mountain small peak, but "strenuous" in the guide books... park by the swamp cross the stream through woods to the field - then UP past an old ski tow's corpse to an orchard and beyond up to the boulder where I allow myself a rest up some more to the scramble - four-wheel drive only now does the...

a pickup truck!
bark bark bark bark bark bark!
there, it's gone now

( While my ex undergoes chemo, I'm tending her dog, a poodle mix more accustomed to an enclosed backyard surrounded by well-manicured suburban homes and paved streets than to my decidedly less refined lifestyle. Still, she's coming around. Perhaps I'll even be able to restore some of the rough edges...

first cup of coffee
primes the system
for the second

Guess we've all known people like that. I've done my share of stuff I'm not proud of, but I don't think I've been a chronic user or exploiter... at least I hope not.

"No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public" - unknown (often misattributed to PT Barnum; possibly paraphrasing HL Mencken) The rise of AI and its inevitable misuse are making it even easier to evade accountability - "I never said that!" And the tragedy (for me an...

I don't know if she posted much of her own work outside the Haiku forum - but she commented everywhere, like a cheerleader, leaving words of encouragement for everyone else. I just thought "In Memoriam" was incomplete without some mention of her name.

her father-in-law said COVID would just "go away on its own" - he failed to mention the 400,000+ Americans it would take with it. He said that no one in history has suffered as much abuse as he has. I suspect residents of Auschwitz & Buchenwald might disagree with him. He said Mexico would pay for a...

Birch Hill WMA 10 minues down the road quiet magic no vistas no towering oaks no thunderous waterfalls - just the confluence of two small rivers a few remnants of days past a glacial erratic or two but best of all - peace serenity stillness silence broken only by one's own footsteps and thoughts a h...