A few years back I was recycling inventory sheets at work and noticed that the abbreviated descriptions of some greeting cards and rubber stamps created amusing fragmentary phrases both silly and profound. In a fit of rogue whimsy, I cut out a bunch and put them in an envelope as fodder for found poetry... then forgot all about them until tonight ( Read more... )

(hdlao wrote: "Barak's ashes are being scattered the weekend of June 28. drop a few flower petals into the nearest body of water on mid-day Sunday. Red roses were his fav..." So on this perfect summer day I went down to the rose garden by the Willamette River and scattered some. This being for Barak, of course things had to be ornery; the wind was ( Read more... )

Swirling swarms of cats
Emerge from every cranny
With a peep, chirp, and miaow
Crying, yowling, "Pet me now
Pet me pet me now NOW NOW
Why is your lap so small???"