Monthly Archives: February 2020

Tuesday, I saw grocery cart after grocery cart after grocery cart after grocery cart … of white plastic bags roll out of HEB, Seguin, Texas. (It was on a Tuesday, but it could have been any day.) GIVE IT UP!!! ……………………… Wait! This humble, humbling attempt at a work of art for Creekside Poets in […]

In especially trying times … durante la gran y larga sequía en los Estados Unidos en la década de 1950, the terrible southwestern drought of the fifties … it felt particularly satisfying to drag my young but experienced and leathery bare feet through the warm deep Devine sand while traversing my little niche of south […]

Recycling mineral resources takes energy which in being produced and used causes pollution and environmental degradation (recycling-is-not-the-ultimate-answer principle). To reduce resource waste and resource supply interruptions, get as much as possible of what we need locally, and dispose of or recycle wastes locally (principle of localism). Stress the use of perpetual and renewable resources and […]

Yes fifty years of one Quihi-Love. Twenty-four and eighteen they meet on the Quihi dance floor. The lighter wood was there. The Johnny Hoffmann smile, a somewhat revealing blouse, alcohol, great music and smooth tight dancing … Sparks ignited a bright enduring flame. A young bull and a heifer with hormones flowing. Or perhaps young […]

“Rollin’ in my sweet baby’s arms Rollin’ in my sweet baby’s arms Lay around the shack Till the mail train comes back I’m rollin’ in my sweet baby’s arms” Wish I’s rollin’ in sweet Earth’s arms Just a rollin’ in sweet Earth’s arms Gotta get off my back Ain’t ’nuff good-railroad-track Rollin’ in sweet Earth’s […]

I’ve had this page open in Eduardo Galeano’s book Children of the Days–on my desk–since January 30rd: “January 30 The Catapult In 1933 Adolf Hitler was named Germany’s chancellor. Soon after, he presided over an immense [Trumpinanesque] rally, as befitted the new lord and master of the nation. [ https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-signs-by-supporters-at-rallies-photos-2019-10 ] Modestly he screamed: ‘I […]

My genes, probably especially from Mom St. Louise, are such that I never get terribly despondent/depressed. Nevertheless, it is almost impossible to not be extremely frustrated & cynical in a world of humans, especially so many humans who consume so much … and who share grudgingly with others including other species … AND leave little […]