Cast iron fervor “I can’t believe you just put soap on that!” a zealous student shouts at his peer on dishwashing duty. There is nothing that will upset a hippie more than improper maintenance of cast iron pans. The most pacifistic woo-heavy Californian will see red if they catch an amateur with soap in one hand and cast iron in the other. If the newbie has disgracefully scrubbed a pan […]
T J Barnum | Entangled world
Once during winter I talked with a black walnut tree who was cold and sleepy and ordered me to leave him be There was a mouse entangled in a sticky trap she shook, filled with death anxiety a quick finish was all I could give her I helped a neighbor find a lost pig in a field of tall grass and brambles the pig looked up then led the way […]
Helen Burke | Kidnapping the last happy day…and other poems
Kidnapping the last happy day You can ask why did we do it? But I would say – why not? We have kidnapped the last happy day in the Universe. It was easy – it was just being itself – not expecting trouble. And we have had enough – and action was called for. It’s not that I like to see its hands and feet bound – It’s not that […]
Laura Grace Weldon | Free range poems
Weed I Won’t Pull Some hardship curved it into a green ampersand. Tendrils sprout along a resolute stem. I want to lean close, ask for some photoautotrophic wisdom. Listen to the soil’s bacterial choir. Convert to the worship plants have practiced since the Beginning. *** November Morning at Dawn Jacket over nightgown over boots I walk out back exhaling clouds, bucket of kitchen scraps swinging in hand. Better than a […]
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