Daily Archives: September 21, 2012

fall comes to the valley in whispers

cornfields left dry and standing in late september whisper urgency the harvest gods are impatient for everything to be gathered in, dried, or ground to flour, so they can dance with light on water before it freezes, or sleep in leaf-piles. yes, early fall … Continue reading

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(im)permanence: what i learned in elementary school

there was always sun & the rhythm of seasons in shortening & lengthening light falling & rising temperature patterns set as days, the stubborn optimism of each sunrise; the slow showy fade into twilight at its setting.  the insistence of spring … Continue reading

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haiku heights: birth

equinox, mabon the wheel balances & turns from birth to fading there is evenness between light and dark today, the birth of autumn

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Urban Jungle Blues

By Noel A. Ihebuzor and Susan L. Daniels Another wandering day finds worn out minds worrying on a wavering road wound tightly around anxious feet lost and soles tired, tiring, endless stomping, souls emptying, core eroding trapped penniless in hard … Continue reading

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