Category: covid
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Foraging the forest during the pandemic
Each morning, when the red-crested woodpecker calls out, again and again and again he puffs his chest goes tchurrrrrr-charr-charr-charr tchurrrrr-charr-charr-charr-chiiirl….. In the debris of the forest floor morels spring up like yachts and private jets feeding on corporate welfare rot Senate scattered for Wall Street handlers In mossy rust-belt northern woods we call them peckerheads…
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and I think it’s going to rain today
(stream of consciousness poem) On my sixty-eighth birthday a tropical depression spins offshore and the forecast is for rain all week and I worry about whole beaches being torn from the shore and the song ‘And I Think It’s Going To Rain Today’ is caught in the riptide in my head and I curse Randy…
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Book marks
Yesterday, I straightened stacks of books I’m in the process of reading and I tried to remember where their journey began Bookmarks are a good point of reference Magazine ad inserts mean it was first opened on the porch among last week’s stack of periodicals Receipts, it began at a literary festival or used bookstore…
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The Last Super Moon of the Year of COVID-19
A friend told me last night, she and her husband looked out over the ocean at the last super moon of 2020 She said it would be just as beautiful tonight My wife and I live in an urban forest dotted with houses At moonrise we walked two blocks to a darkened ball field trees…
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Listening to Bob Dylan at 3am
I’ve heard Paul and Ringo say in interviews that the Beatles would’ve eventually played, again if John and George hadn’t died and talked of unfinished business things they would’ve said things they would’ve done A friend of mine lost her partner to COVID-19 but not thoughts of things she wishes she had said things they…
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Muddling
You were not certified to be born to nurse to be a child or an adolescent set adrift in hormonal seas You were not trained to be a friend to love to be a parent or a partner in this thing called life You were not prepared to be quarantined for COVID-19 but somehow we…
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for a friend who got furloughed yesterday
For all the unemployed fathers and mothers who have worked hard all their lives who worked two jobs and a side hustle who paid their taxes who send their kids to public schools who use public parks who believed in the American dream For all the children whose parents are putting their lives on the…
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