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by sasha
March 3rd, 2024, 10:43 am
Forum: Stories & Essays
Topic: Wolf Trees
Replies: 7
Views: 303

Re: Wolf Trees

Beautiful! I've seen glimpses of them, but I'm more apt to hear than to see them. Their characteristic call is a kind of twanging, loose-banjo-string note: "chip-BOINNGG".
by sasha
March 2nd, 2024, 12:37 pm
Forum: Stories & Essays
Topic: Wolf Trees
Replies: 7
Views: 303

Re: Wolf Trees

Hey Steve, thanks for coming along on this jaunt. I've taken lots of pictures of wolf trees along the way, and hunted down a few of my favorites in anticipation of this write. I didn't actually clear the trail from my stone wall to the staging area - just marked the way with bits of forestry ribbon....
by sasha
February 28th, 2024, 4:05 pm
Forum: Stories & Essays
Topic: Wolf Trees
Replies: 7
Views: 303

Wolf Trees

  IMG_20201108_21291.jpg   Ever since I was a boy, misshapen, gnarly old trees - white pines especially - have excited a resonant frequency inside me. There's just something about them - something that speaks to me. “I am the Wood,” they seem to say – not with boastfulness, not with bravado, nor ste...
by sasha
February 27th, 2024, 5:37 pm
Forum: Poetry
Topic: bring on the spectacle
Replies: 2
Views: 205

Re: bring on the spectacle

I'm trying to kick my outrage-porn habit, but having only limited success. At least I realize when I'm binging on it, and know that even the viewpoints I agree with are more than a little skewed. But it's a powerful drug, and I can't seem to get enough of that angry rush of self-righteous contempt i...
by sasha
February 27th, 2024, 5:25 pm
Forum: Paintings & Drawings
Topic: Cookin"
Replies: 2
Views: 236

Re: Cookin"

"Portrait of the Artist" !
by sasha
February 24th, 2024, 12:02 pm
Forum: Haiku
Topic: 2024 02 24
Replies: 1
Views: 199

2024 02 24

dusty books
rearranged on shelves
for... what?

ancient bibles
"First-Year Quantum Theory"
long forgotten

trophies perhaps
from when I was young
when they mattered
by sasha
February 18th, 2024, 4:08 pm
Forum: Paintings & Drawings
Topic: Gothic Moon Rising
Replies: 2
Views: 249

Re: Gothic Moon Rising

And who might have lit the tapers in that sinister tower?

"I have given you the room in the tower..." - from the narrator's recurring nightmare in E.F. Benson's "The Room in the Tower" (a story that scared me silly when I was 10 or 11)
by sasha
February 16th, 2024, 10:18 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: The cheese tastes good
Replies: 2
Views: 251

Re: The cheese tastes good

yup - always listened to the wrong music - never interested in sports - actually liked math, & did well in it (matrix theory excepted) - always too odd to be an insider - being outside suits me
by sasha
February 15th, 2024, 11:23 am
Forum: Stories & Essays
Topic: The Reluctant Gladiators
Replies: 7
Views: 19309

Re: The Reluctant Gladiators

Thanks Doreen! Been thinking about it since Steve commented, and I'm starting to realize that most of those little snapshots of family life probably didn't happen that night - but they did happen. Brian insists he was finishing his final year at UNH at the time - and if so, Betty wasn't yet pregnant...
by sasha
February 14th, 2024, 10:11 pm
Forum: Stories & Essays
Topic: The Reluctant Gladiators
Replies: 7
Views: 19309

Re: The Reluctant Gladiators

"Never let the facts get in the way of a good story!"
by sasha
February 10th, 2024, 9:52 am
Forum: ~GO!
Topic: perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!
Replies: 5746
Views: 592289

Re: perpetual jam!!!!!!!!!

winter short days, long nights cold and wet gloom and desperation the arctic wind claws at the cabin finding its way in through the cracks - so throw another log on the fire another loaf on the table refill your goblets and hoist them in remembrance of those who once sat at our table now their chair...
by sasha
February 9th, 2024, 3:00 pm
Forum: Stories & Essays
Topic: The Reluctant Gladiators
Replies: 7
Views: 19309

Re: The Reluctant Gladiators

Thank you, Steve - stories keep the elders alive - my dad's gone, my mom is all but gone, my wife (now ex) is very ill - but they all live & thrive somewhere in the past. Someday we'll all be dirt - if we can only leave something behind, something that says not just "this was me" but "this is how it...
by sasha
February 7th, 2024, 11:07 am
Forum: Poetry
Topic: Groan Into The Night
Replies: 4
Views: 342

Re: Groan Into The Night

I like this - very noir. Can hear the rain pattering on the pavement, and somewhere a mournful sax
by sasha
February 7th, 2024, 10:58 am
Forum: Haiku
Topic: 2024 02 04
Replies: 7
Views: 460

Re: 2024 02 04

.....the woods has a lot of predators far better than I at catching little meals That's a fine point that I think gets overlooked sometimes - the Nature of predation. From a moralistic point of view, it looks unpleasant - but morality is something we invented to protect us from ourselves. Predation...
by sasha
February 5th, 2024, 9:35 am
Forum: Haiku
Topic: 2024 02 04
Replies: 7
Views: 460

Re: 2024 02 04

I had an infestation of flying squirrels several years back. They weren't content to confine themselves to the attic or within the walls - they were finding their way into my living quarters. I tried Havahart traps without success; so I set out a number of snap traps, but they weren't robust enough ...

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