Where does the sound of a bell go? People, places and things of the past ring silently true in the present They glow like the ghosts of an afterlife and float wherever they will They’re as real as the ground that I walk on with nothing to hold as it spins They echo and ripple […]
1. What a world. My first boyfriend just talked to my former brother-in-law on my Facebook timeline. 2. Trump is the Spinal Tap Rockumentary of the American Presidency. 3. I wrote #2 after hearing Trump say this about the coronavirus at the CDC: “I like this stuff. I really get it… every one of these […]
The last few weeks of my brother’s lives played out like the conclusion of a dramatic Hollywood script, a plot with a twist. The road trip they took, two weeks before the first death, became the beginning of a larger journey, the one in which they would both leave this world. I have decided to […]
The Forever Now Band brought out the Dogtown dancers last night with their positive-themed, original Galactic Folk Rock songs. Venus is hot and fast. Along with Venus, songs about Jupiter, Neptune Saturn were represented, but we also painted it black with the Rolling Stones and danced to the Kinks. Blue Galactic Highway and Spiral of […]
Then came the golden finch to cinch the coming of Spring to turn on the bulbs and ring in the bells that wake the dormant daffodils __________Colleen Redman / Poets and Storytellers United
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on March 5, 2020. Sunday was the first planting party for the More Trees Please! Forest Initiative, a new non-profit that focuses on working with landowners to plant more trees in Floyd. “Trees provide wildlife habitat, they clean air, they clean water, they provide shade and food […]
1. I lied in my dream last night. I said to someone I was in conversation with, “I still go to church occasionally because I like the atmosphere of magic and mystery and it feels like being in a womb.” I should have said, “When I was a kid, the thing I liked about (Catholic) […]
The last few weeks of my brother’s lives played out like the conclusion of a dramatic Hollywood script, a plot with a twist. The road trip they took, two weeks before the first death, became the beginning of a larger journey, the one in which they would both leave this world. I have decided to […]
Take the cover off the dull buzz of words held captive in jars with no breathing holes Bury their carcasses Let them grow back green Set free the drone of repetition Don’t degrade the living with lie Don’t lose the chance to turn language into verse to pollinate the truth into flower chain conversations When […]
