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- 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".
- 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....
- 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...
- 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...
- February 27th, 2024, 5:25 pm
- Forum: Paintings & Drawings
- Topic: Cookin"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 236
Re: Cookin"
"Portrait of the Artist" !
- 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
rearranged on shelves
for... what?
ancient bibles
"First-Year Quantum Theory"
long forgotten
trophies perhaps
from when I was young
when they mattered
- 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)
"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)
- 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
- 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...
- 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!"
- 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...
- 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...
- 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
- 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...
- 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 ...