1. A tree’s buried roots / are as real as its branches / The poems are the test / and the dreams are the answers – from The Shape of Truth HERE. 2. Rats can recognize colors and understand left and right, but they can’t put the two together to locate a biscuit left of the […]
_______Wordless Wednesday
That’s what Joe said to me at the Blue Ridge Story Space that I was covering in January for the local paper. I wasn’t prepared to tell a story, but I had a good one to share that I made fit the month’s theme of “beginnings.” In the middle of my mystical story of my […]
That’s what I should have been singing after the Dogtown musician who specializes in covering Beatles songs asked for a request. Considering Nancy Pelosi’s skill in getting the longest Government shutdown in history to come to an end without giving in to Trump’s demands for border wall money, and the fact that I had been […]
At night I live in different houses and I’m never startled by how unrecognizable they are I live in one house during the day and carry a notebook to take down the proof I can’t see my own face only its reflection I make a living with poetic renderings and make myself at home Every […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on January 17, 2019. Art lovers filled the Troika Gallery at The Station for the grand re-opening last Friday evening, which included a meet and greet of the artists, snacks and drinks. Ownership of the Contemporary Crafts Gallery has recently changed hands. The new owners are jeweler […]
1. It was so cold Sunday night that when Joe and I went to watch a movie in our bedroom, I said, “I’m going undercover,” as in blankets and comforters. 2. We watched Blackkklansman, which was based on a true story about the first African-American police officer/detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department who went […]
Once there was this kid who / Got into an accident and couldn’t come to school / But when he finally came back / His hair had turned from black into bright white… Have you guessed yet? The Crash Test Dummies are on tour for the 25th anniversary of their award-winning album God Shuffled His […]
As promised in press releases, Floyd’s 2nd annual Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration was a beautiful community celebration that brought together an outpouring of support and participation from local businesses, organizations, churches, restaurants and individuals. Hosted by The Heart of the Child Music Education and Preserve Floyd, the event highlighted the Interracial Community Building in […]
We had one board, two Official Scrabble Dictionaries and three free look-ups. “Do you want the new or older one,” he asked one of the players who wanted to look up a word, “the one with the dirty words in it or the cleaned up one?” He had the 3rd edition that had swear words […]
It starts out with so much potential I flip to the ones I like I start at the back and work my way to the middle then lose my place and wander in circles like poring through clothes at the Goodwill Thrift Shop and trying on the same ones twice ________Colleen Redman / Poets United / […]
Clark Gable is back! Can you spot Scarlet?
