Loose Leaf Notes

_______Wordless Wednesday 

The Floyd-based band Flirting with Chemicals was the Mardi Gras soundtrack to a lighted hoop show and dancers that included a troupe of Mystic Witches. Here’s what the band’s Facebook page says: “Flirting with Chemicals, Floyd Virginia’s Neo-psychedelic dance band draws inspiration from many sacred sources including Velvet Underground, Neil Young, Yo La Tengo, Guided […]

________Shadow Shot Sunday

Today I’m moving words that have become part of the furniture I’m cutting the clutter and repairing the wear I’m taking junk to the dump and rearranging the mood I’m putting the elephant in the middle of the room _________Colleen Redman / Poets United

1. When Your Grandkids turn your house into a Farmers Market. 2. And not only do you let them, but you set up a play lemonade stand. 3. I just realized while googling the PBS News Hour that David Brook’s and Mark Shields’s last names spell Brooke Shields. 4. Living daily with the chaos and […]

-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on February 1, 2018 Morgan Wade was back on the stage where she first performed her original songs in public.  This time, she played with her band, The Stepbrothers, for the debut release of her new full length CD, Puppets with My Heart.   It was a hometown […]

The foreplay My adversary I can see your letters. Is this cheating? This really happened. It was the first time in 20 years that I got Joe to play Scrabble with me.  We had fun. I won. And now he’s watching the Super Bowl.  / Our World Tuesday

My dream has little value unless I write it down like a baby isn’t named until it’s born Is it the voice of God-within that gives me clues in dreams? That grades my day by scores at night? That lives a double life? __________Colleen Redman / Poets United

The juncos stand precariously on snow They can’t feel the ground beneath them Their black bodies hop like clipped silhouettes as if they floated to the top from the underworld _______Shadow Shot Sunday