Category: ShortStory
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Each New Start
Each New Start each new start, an improvisationlaying-on paint, running musical scalesor penning rhymes – stabilizing time –LE This verse is from a longer poem, That’s Life, and was an epiphany for me, of sorts (a head-nodding realization) … That’s all it ever was … just ‘stabilizing time’, and perhaps my mind, and maybe that’s…
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Baritone Sax
Baritone Sax bass tonesof a baritone saxblast the underpinningsof space/time apartas we tumblethrough the voidreaching out forany residual strandsof melodyfrom the songof life –LE
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The Inevitable End
The Inevitable End Though I may not beThe sharpest crayon in the boxA modicum of intellect resides It occurs to me that reasonAnd desires can rationalizeAlmost anything The resulting reprievesAt best temporaryDon’t mitigate the end As all things doSo it is saidWith a whimper or bang Even the ‘eternal’ universeThough we won’t see itWill eventually…
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On The Beat And Off
On The Beat And Off an hour agoI wason the roadwith Kerouachit the roadJack …in the wastelandon one of those roadsnot takenas Eliot, Frostand I danced withFerlinghettiin his mind’sConey Islandconstantly riskingabsurdityas wehowledwith Ginsberghiking mountainpaths gripping ouraxe handlesin riprapwith Snyderas we ponderedDi Prima’sletters “…withno otherransomthanmyself …” –LE – 11/20/25 Yes, a tribute, mainly to the Beats…
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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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