This call may be monitored This call may be dropped from a landline sinking on an iceberg floating as the planet unravels like a spool of thread and you can’t move the needle or pull the frayed edge through This call may be disconnected from an unplugged grid where nothing is normal and all the […]
1. A Winning Love: We are like two sides / of the same coin / Heads or tails / We both win. 2. I asked Joe what song with the word ‘love” in the title comes to his mind first. He answered, “Love Me Do,” by the Beatles. Mine was “What’s Love Got to Do […]
We mostly read to ourselves, those from the Artemis Journal table at the Taubman Museum for Roanoke Arts Pop! But we met other poets, and for Katherine and I, it was another notch in our Grief and Relief Soulful Aging Reading Tour, which lately I’ve been calling the “Still Acting Our Age Tour.” The Arts […]
Well, I’ve always called it Round Ball, but whatever the name, it seems to be everyone’s favorite. By my count (videos and blog posts), the band has played at Dogtown six times. Add Floydfest to that and you can just about double the amount of times that they’ve played in Floyd. The Hotel Floyd was […]
When thoughts reverberate and my mind is a bell I reach to hold the clapper to match my breath with a mantra When night takes a toll I toss and turn the other cheek where the grass is greener and the sheep have been counted I let my mind escape my brain’s confinement where thoughts […]
1. I think I’m a Dude: “I think the Dude is an example of someone who doesn’t feel that he needs to achieve anything. He likes lying in the bathtub drinking White Russians with the whale music on. He’s just taking it easy, taking it the way it is. There’s a lot of generosity in […]
