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Thank you Mark for the read on both poems and additional information. I'm jotting off a quick response as we are battening down the hatches for an unheard-of weather event here in San Diego. A hurricane with all kinds of dire warnings including massive power failures. I am scheduled to fly out Wed. ...

The Dan Patch Express ran behind the school yard, the backs of bleachers, track and field on the other side. Even then, trains no longer whistled steam, the engineer laid on his diesel horn. We watched to see if this time he'd wave ahead of stop action sprocket drive that suspended in unreal space, ...

One night I dreamed I flew with angles over grids designed by visionaries. What an enlightening flight it was, all asphalt roofs and straight-edge canyons. Who needs trees and grass , I shouted, whipped aloft by heaven-bound updrafts. I see it now, the sacred logic. arranged in ninety degree interse...

Thanks Dave, natural events seem to be happening in unnatural ways more and more. Why not the reawakening of a volcano? 

https://poetrycircle.com/forum/attachments/1691768027990-png.39675/ You there, you and your companions spaced on my baseboards according to decades-old building codes, what is your lineage? Once coal fed your ancestors through umbilical cords strung on power poles from one coast to the other. Your ...

Tuff  little poem

I feel very complimented! Thanks Mark.

 Garden decorations run more to metalwork representations of plants and animals

I could get on board with that. Thanks Mark

I t's like the Halloween pumpkin lamps still rotting and oozing on doorsteps a week after the event.  Do these things become invisible to the owner? My daughters had a high school friend whose parents walked a good portion of their neighborhood every day. They invented a game in which documented Chr...

I thought about it. The title of this write is "Woke" which is now--that was then: back to that time some elements in this society wish to return----

One of these days, Alice,
one of these days--
POW right in the kisser--
you're going straight to the moon...

American audiences gathered
around their TVs and laughed.