Wild Horses at Shackleford Banks
Outer Banks, North Carolina… Read More Wild Horses at Shackleford Banks
Tag: Poet’s Corner
Panning For Gold in North Carolina
at Reed Gold Mine… Read More Panning For Gold in North Carolina
Acquainted With Puppets
Making puppets at the Center For Puppetry Arts in Atlanta… Read More Acquainted With Puppets
Digging for Diamonds in Arkansas
Crater Of Diamonds State Park — Murfreesboro, AR… Read More Digging for Diamonds in Arkansas
This Memphis Pyramid is in Tennessee
In a city named after one in Egypt… Read More This Memphis Pyramid is in Tennessee
Lindsborg, KS: “Little Sweden”
A Lindsborg limerick… Read More Lindsborg, KS: “Little Sweden”
Driving Through Kansas
Driving Through Kansas… Read More Driving Through Kansas
Driving Through Wyoming
The problem with driving through Wyoming… Read More Driving Through Wyoming
Reno Limerick
A limerick about the biggest little city.… Read More Reno Limerick
Walking the Walk in Hollywood
A stroll down the Walk Of Fame in Hollywood… Read More Walking the Walk in Hollywood
Thinking of Mark Twain on a Spring Hike in San Francisco
Hiking across Golden Gate Bridge… Read More Thinking of Mark Twain on a Spring Hike in San Francisco
Double Haiku: Locke, California
A village built by and for Chinese workers in the Nineteenth Century.… Read More Double Haiku: Locke, California
Generations at Disney
Celebrating Disney with our son and Kimberly’s birth mother.… Read More Generations at Disney
A Comedy Club in Beautiful Downtown Burbank
A Comedy Club in Beautiful Downtown Burbank… Read More A Comedy Club in Beautiful Downtown Burbank
They Call It the Miracle Mile Because of How It Was Developed, and It Has Nothing to Do with the Film Industry, Except That in L.A. Everything Does, Doesn’t It?
They call it the Miracle Mile Because of How it Was Developed… Read More They Call It the Miracle Mile Because of How It Was Developed, and It Has Nothing to Do with the Film Industry, Except That in L.A. Everything Does, Doesn’t It?
What Was Once Extinct Can Be Reborn
Brooding roadside dinosaursat Cabazon Passprepare to duelover distant prize:Indian casino.
A Forest of Windmills Near Palm Springs
Like pinpoints on a battle map.Ecologist’s dream.Don Quixote’s nightmare.
Haiku: Visiting Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch and Being Informed That Ostriches Are Surprisingly Aggressive and Dangerous
Stand clear: these birds aredeathly territorial.They don’t play ostrich.
Returning to Carlsbad Caverns
We must probe deep below to eludecities that crack their knuckles against the skyand humanity staking its territorywith appointments, verdicts and broken glass. We delve, as if craving some sourcethat sculpts these interjections in stonewhich we parallel with celluloid scenes:what endures versus what must pass.
In the Ruins of the Somewhat Racially Integrated Sloss Furnaces
(Birmingham, Alabama) Men of all backgrounds came to this forge–oppressors working beside the abused.Now all on the same page of history;more than metal was being fused. But the sweatiest, grimiest labor wentto a select part of the company staff —those with most to prove and least to lose:the back rows in the group photograph.
The Most Notorious Feature of Flagler College
After our tour, our student guideupon some nudging, took us asideto reveal what we’d been waiting for:the legendary ghostly face on the floor —an inescapable point of pride,not part of, yet still vital to, the tour.
St. Augustine Lighthouse, Survivor
The lighthouse is riddled with bullet holesbut the bullets didn’t diminish the light.The structure is still what the shooter was not:upright, lofty, solid and bright.
