More About the Moon

The moon is shy but bold, The moon’s made of ground goblins, The moon is a mirror. The moon doesn’t belong to me, The moon is a Frisbee, Is a scoop of lily ice cream. The moon cried louder than cats do, I heard it and came running, But then…

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How Clinging Happens

And never sacrifice; for if you sacrifice you cannot forgive and you cannot forget.Osho Freedom makes even love beautiful.Osho I am not talking here about the natural clinging of the infant to its mother; primate babies, including humans, have a powerful grip designed to enable them to grasp their mother’s…

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Green-Olive and Bean Pate

This is a hearty, tasty dip or bread-spread or can be put on pasta or raw veg. Put in the blender: 6 or 7 large green olives, pits removed 3 cloves garlic, peeled 1 can organic salad beans, rinsed about 1/3-1/2 cup tahini sea salt and freshly ground pepper to…

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Everything-Free “Coffee” Smoothie

This is a delicious cold nourishing drink without sugar, caffeine, or dairy. Pu in the blender 2 frozen bananas (freeze them already sliced), about 2 cups unsweetened almond milk, a jot of good vanilla extract, 2 ice cubes, and 2 tsps Pero or other grain coffee powder. Add 1 envelope…

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If People Had Noses Like Dogs

I accompanied a horse-shoeing friend on her rounds one day in the rolling hills around Liberty, Mo. All the snow and mud and old barns and so on gave me the heebie-jeebies – farms for some reason bring up acute claustrophobia in me – but the biggest annoyance was being…

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A Summer Day in Northern California, 1919

Two-year-old Virginia is missing Her parents look throughout the tidy Wooden house Where yellow curtains glow They go outside and peer In the shady woods Where a brook chuckles a sudden secret And small shy forest mammals Are gone to earth…

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A Dream of Colors

After much valiant and serious facing of the big bad world of publishing, as pertains to my book-which-is-trying-out-its-big-strong-wings-but-is-yet-new, events evolved into such a place that it was relevant and indeed correct for me to cease my struggles, scrounging, and bullet-biting for a little while. I could hardly believe it…freedom, after…

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Green Lentil and Cabbage with Pasta and Tabasco

The Swiss chalet where I was staying has a beautiful kitchen, but I didn’t want to lay in a lot of supplies, as I was just there for a few weeks before taking off to Holland. Too, shopping involved dragging a rolling caddy up very steep hills – an opportunity…

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Seven Poems from Europe with Pix

In a Purple Greeting Card for Nisarg Which has on it a painting of a full moon blobbily luminous behind the branches of the huge tree which borders the courtyard of the pyramids in the commune in Poona (What is life but a pyramid Near which is a…

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Exploding Toilet

My father loved fireworks. My brothers tell me that before I came along, he would, each Fourth of July, take a babies’ bathtub out on the crabgrassy front lawn and fill it with water from the hose. Then he’d put into it a thing from his lab: sodium metal, a…

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Mom and Brother Write Poems, Too!

Mom (age 91) recited this while we sat in the HomeTown Buffet in Eugene, Oregon with our piled plates in front of us: Little Miss Muffet Went to HomeTown Buffet And was eating her dinner one day Along came a spider And sat down beside her…

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