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When we said we were driving down to DC together I understood we would both share the driving responsibilities. That meant – in my mind – that after one of us drove the other of us would. So imagine my … Continue reading →

My history with food is such that too many people will say, “We have this leftover steak here. Jon! Come over and eat this leftover steak!” And I like free food and I hate things going to waste and I … Continue reading →

Alone I’ve walked this island for many decades now and in that time a thing or two there is that I know how to accomplish or to generate, but one I cannot tame. Perhaps I could have once, but love … Continue reading →

There have been other stories about this creature (I just did a web search with conflicting information) but I deep dived into the subject and found out that the Truth Fairy comes to you every time you lose a youthful … Continue reading →

Another attempt at building my future canon of works before my brain begins to atrophy. Here’s a poem for 2034, written on spec today! When the otters took over, back in the day we said, “how could you treat us … Continue reading →

Just in case I find myself not as creative in five years’ time, let me try my hand at future poetry, to help plump my canon. If I am fully functioning in five years, great! Disregard. If not, we’ll just … Continue reading →

Reviewing my past writings, I see that three years ago, in one of my last spurts before I stopped writing poetry prior to the pandemic I played the prophet, claiming it would get better and that creativity would come again … Continue reading →

I just looked over what I was writing five years back and it appears it circled around thoughts of distance, degradation and devotion in equal parts. It seems there was a certain someone I was not being direct with and … Continue reading →

I looked back,and ten years ago I wrote perhaps the thousandth poem about the narrator’s emotional impenetrability with the ironic twist suggesting said narrator’s actual fragility all along. It was not the last time the subject would be addressed, not … Continue reading →

On the list of things to do today (compose three works of genius, two works of adequosity, one work of dreck, wash glasses, change socks, eat lunch), I did not place bird-watching anywhere near the top or on the list … Continue reading →