Category: Commentary
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Between the Storms Morning Ride
Between the Storms Morning Ride Rolled out underA marbled skyHeavy clouds broodingEager to dump loadsAnd cry, cry, cry Sun popped throughFrom time to timeLightening my moodSo I didn’t brood As the recedingFloodwaters fromLast night’s stormsLanguidly ambleNorthward to the GilaAnd beyond No fauna out todayBut a few fat pigeonsBobble-heading their wayNext to the pathReady to playOr…
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Why Choose?
Beach or mountains? Which do you prefer? Why? Why Choose? Personally, I ‘prefer’ wherever I am, not only in the moment, but seasonally and ‘migrationally’… Right now, I prefer the High Sonoran Desert, where I currently live. In years gone by, that preference was for lake, river, and ocean shores, and occationally, the vertical faces…
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Only Three?
What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals? Only three? My favorite (since I haven’t lived in a family situation for many years) meal changes from day to day and month to month. And it’s usually whatever I’ve chosen to eat in any given moment or situation…; -) Today, it’s Borscht … my improvisation of…
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Save Our VA Protest – 11/21/25
5 of us walked the line for this morning’s Save Our VA protest. for the 7:00 AM shift change at the Ajo gate. There was also a bigger protest at the 6th Ave. gate, with about 20 people with signs surrounding that gate. We had about the same percentage of responses as last time, with…
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Lake by LEO
Lake by LEO Once I saw a girl out by the boat dockssitting by the waterwith rocks around her ankles Hey whatcha gonna dosomebody must have hurt you so bad I’m going fishing for some answersat the bottom of the lake Once I saw a girl just fly awaybut she woke up from that dream…
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Late November Hiaku
LATE NOVEMBER HAIKU Thick cloouds and cold wind,Novembers’s salient points —decay feeds new life. –LE
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Trust and Instincts – Yes
Do you trust your instincts? It took me ‘a while’ to trust my gut (instincts, if you will). Everything in our social conditioning from education to social gatherings infused me with the idea that everyone else’s opinions were more important, more ‘reasoned’, more real than my own. Therefore, I should listen to them and not…
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Waves A Waving
Waves A Waving a wave rolls inwashes upthe sandy beach’s inclineas if the beachwere taking abreath in remnants or the waveslide back into the seaas the beach seemsto exhale only to inhale againas the next wavefroths, rolls, andripples in the steady breathingof land and seaas constant asthe stars and trees leaves mecontentedmy mindat ease –LE…
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First Impressions
What’s the first impression you want to give people? This is not today’s prompt, but I finally decided how I’d answer it…; -) First impressions are just another name for the masks we wear. Why do we wear them? We wear them because we’ve been trained, conditioned by society’s gatekeepers (our parents, teachers, social, religious,…
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Deamweaver
Dreamweaver secret murderin the drawing room the queen of Egypta fallen flame a moon markedtrilogy of mortalsdescended onCrescent City kidnapped thewatchmaker’s daughterstole the magician’s diarya glimmer of the other hex the witchthe charmerthe saintthe sinner in the palace oflost dreamsshackled to thedreamweaver –LE – 11/16/25
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