It’s time to leave
when guns grow on trees
orange blossoms cut down
Kiss the dream good night
alarms set
locked in gated housing [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Pilgrimage to RAF Brüggen
I had to fly to RAF Brüggen
to find an olive branch
for the country of my birth
talking itself to death
I had to travel to Germany
to see runways
outflanked by forest
munitions planted
in fortified bunkers frozen by Cold War
carpet bombed by meadows [Read more…]
Sore Loser!
Sore losers! you sneer,
because they question the way the game was played.
Cheaters! they cry,
because it just doesn’t make sense
the way it went down,
compared to what they saw with their very own eyes.
Just politics.
That makes it all OK,
As if this was just a game of chess,
With nothing lost but the round,
unless you waged a bet. [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Hijacked
A madman
has taken over the plane
forcing sheep
in business suits destined for Germany
to fly from Vienna to London
where they are herded
into Heathrow’s overcrowded stalls
for half a day
If they have 25 pounds
it will be sheered from their coats
for a bottle of water
and greasy bread crumbs
said to be fish [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Getting Away
Flying back in time
to a man who grew out of himself
Knocked about by turbulence
until he passed through security
traveling lightly:
No baggage to search
nothing to declare
no allegiances to profess [Read more…]
Public Pays for Hedge Funds’ Profits
By Donald Cohen / Capital & Main
What do 82 public libraries, a Texas beef-processing company and a string of Pizza Huts across Tennessee and Florida have in common?
They’re all managed by the same private equity firm.
Fifteen of those libraries are in Jackson County, Oregon, where public officials are starting to raise concerns over the firm’s ownership of the private contractor that manages them. Facing budget issues in 2007, the county contracted with Library Systems and Services (LS&S), the country’s largest library outsourcing company, to try to save money—but LS&S is owned by Argosy Private Equity, whose mission is to “generate outstanding returns” and “substantially grow revenues and profits” for the businesses it owns. [Read more…]
Eleanor’s Story: A Book and a Stage Production Not to be Missed
I met a woman named Eleanor Ramrath Garner early in April at a nice party at a beautiful Del Mar home with a wonderful view on a warm inviting sunny day.
The gathering had everything I like: delicious food; refreshing drinks; interesting witty people, scholars all, practically, filled with colorful stories to tell and they didn’t mind telling them.
Some of them had written doctoral studies and books and essays for professional publications. Eleanor happened to mention that she was an author. She didn’t say what her book was about but something about her made me want to read it. So I looked for it on Amazon. [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Another World
Outside drawn curtains
many different worlds
Outside drawn curtains
orange eyedrops of ink
punctuating pages
between leaves [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: New State of Being
The first time
i heard the call to prayer
Nicosia’s Venetian walls
melted into mosaic pigments
colors bleeding into anonymity
The first time
i heard the call to prayer
i was released
from a prison of architectural semantics
Carried
above lilting cities of clouds [Read more…]
Wild and Wooly
By Sloanranger
Well here it is, wild and wooly. We thought it was already crazy — obstructional, destructional — dysfunctional to the ‘nth degree. Tea parties, three parties — and the mob finally playing their Trump card. But no trustbusters, not yet – maybe because the trust of the people had long gone, anyway.
Nuclear options, up and down votes, heck, just stop everything. And inside the beltway, the people’s business — or rather lack of it, went on as usual. Our representatives listening only to lobbyists and extremists, corporate paid pundits and media, not much was said about us…to us or for us. [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: Illumination
Imagine
landing sick in a country
where pharmacists
refer to themselves as chemists
measure medications
with their own hands
call customers by name [Read more…]
Geo-Poetic Spaces: The Mediterranean Sea
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Landlocked
oligotrophic sea of transparency
Sheer blue openness
incapable of fending off light [Read more…]
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