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Week 2 of ModPo - 2018
Week 2 of ModPo – Thinking Ginsberg (flashback to 1983, I think) My alternator belt broke on the road driving from Seattle to Vancouver.
Sep 7
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School Daze - Peripheral Reflections on Hurricane Katrina
Here is a poem I had almost lost - until last week hen the 20th anniversary of Katrina showed up in the news
Sep 5
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August 2025
Last Friday of the Summer Sonnet
(from the archives)
Aug 29
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This FBA Madness
August 2, 2025 I doubt I will adopt this new race name – This Foundational Black American Madness.
Aug 8
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July 2025
a poem for Mary Wilson
another COVID poem that was almost lost
Jul 16
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Sailor memories
Here is one that almost slipped through the cracks. Written during the COVID lock down.
Jul 16
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June 2025
Post missile launch poem
This poem got lost in the shuffle, only emerging after posting my little piece of micro-fiction in slight reaction to the so-called 12-Day War here:
Jun 27
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April 2025
Experimentation in Standard Time
This 2013 poem never made it to Substack.
Apr 15
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If Deer Could Speak
another 2013 poem
Apr 14
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Memories from Rope-Yarn Wednesdays
Three years from now, as the crow flies,
Apr 13
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Sonnet #62 - Government Shutdown
I wrote more poems in 2013, the year of my retirement from State, than any other year in my life.
Apr 13
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for a rainy Sunday morning
Here is a sonnet I wrote a few years back, "for a rainy Sunday morning." I was obviously obsessed with penning a sonnet with a standard rhyming pattern.
Apr 13
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