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Writing

Believing in Iron

The hills my brothers & I created Never balanced, & it took years To discover how the world worked. We could look at a tree of blackbirds & tell you how many were there, But with the scrap dealer Our math was always off. Weeks of lifting & grunting Never added up to much, But […]

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Photography

Sit a spell

Today’s photos are from the Shaw Nature Reserve.

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Writing

I wandered lonely as a cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils, Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch’d in never-ending […]

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Political

The non-conformist

Full title of photograph: The Non-conformist among the patriots at a strip mall in St. Louis

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Political

Far away thoughts

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I woke the morning of the last day of March with other things on my mind, of shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings but then I did some weblog reading and that changed the course of the day. Where before my mind was on visiting the Arboretum and […]