He juggles sharpies, draws cartoons for kids and calls everyone Larry. That’s Tom Angleberger, New York Times bestseller of the Origami Yoda series and more. Our grandson Bryce is a fan and now, after seeing him at the Radford Library, we are too. Tom lives in Christiansburg and was a Roanoke Times newspaper columnist and […]
Not dreams as lofty goals but the unruly kind that we have at night when no one is looking The ones with potency that are brutally honest that bypass the vanity of ego and dogma Dreams that disturb and urge self-reflection are magically empowering but not politically correct Buried like bodies waiting to be claimed […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on September 26, 2019 with a smaller selection of photos. Woody Crenshaw estimated that 200 breakfast plates were served at Saturday morning’s Breakfast at the Market fundraiser for the Farmers Market, a project of SustainFloyd. The breakfast was held in the Village Green parking lot, adjacent to […]
1. Is it B or 13? 2. Silence or quiet? 3. Quiet means lowering the volume but silence is turning it off. 4. I hear the planets spin / and the weight of a complaining needle / scratching in the background / like an exasperated breath / across creation’s restless conscience – Read Quiet in […]
I’m bad with dates. It’s been that way ever since high school when we had to memorize the dates of wars, even though history was my favorite subject because it’s all about stories. Joe and I rarely celebrate our wedding anniversary. We remember that it was a blue moon in June but rarely can remember […]
Not far from the tree It all came down to Joe and this big black cow. Meanwhile, I watched from a monarch Shangri-La in a goldenrod patch that we stumbled upon. I tracked. I stalked. I waited. Everyone won. The cow ate too. And there was apple crisp that evening. _______Our World Tuesday
Quiet is a high scoring Scrabble word but in the morning when I’m grieving it’s an island that I’m stranded on and I’m anxious to find shelter and food It’s a filter for noise but some loud memories are too big to sift through They persist as a hum in my ears water-logged songs without […]
The evening sun streamed down onto the Hahn Garden at Virginia Tech as seven poets read among the marigolds and mums. The readings were in conjunction with the current outdoor art exhibit “Simply Elemental” and included an interlude of classical guitar, performed by musicians Ebru Bish and Renate Kehlenbeck. Sharing silence with a heron, gravity, […]
1. I used to only like to collect perfect shells. Now I like the varied shaped broken ones best. 2. Washed up moon shell / Turn your ear towards its shine / Hear the poetry of galaxies / in its phosphorescence tide 3. Just Breathe: A recent study has shown that deep breathing with longer […]
We topped off our Atlantic Beach vacation with a visit to “Willie’s Joint” and seeing Willie and the outlaws (Lucas Nelson, Alison Krauss and Bonnie Raitt) playing at the Walnut Creek Music Park in Raleigh. We got busted early on for changing our seats even though we stayed in the same section. At over $100 […]
It comes up pink rises gold and sets like the ghost of a white-haired crone ____________Colleen Redman / Poets United
______Wordless Wednesday
