Vincent Hostak - Two Moon Sutras - The Dewdrop In his poem, "Two Moon Sutras", poet Vincent Hostak offers a pair of sequences focused on the moon as an object of contemplation.

I'm grateful to the Dewdrop and honored to be a featured poet in this issue. The Dewdrop features reflective and thoughtful writing, loosely based on spiritual themes, from both classic and emergent writers. Stop by, if you might.
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I've lived in Chicago and two Texas cities. I appreciate Mayor Brandon Johnson's comment: "the governor of Texas should be worried about Texas. Why are you all up in my business? Focus on Texas." Texas could start with its "unacceptably high maternal mortality rate (Dallas Morning News)."

The Herons, the D*ath Metal practitioners of the avian community.

...and while our populations of unhoused persons may include those suffering from addictions & mental illness, this country never recovered from Reagan's mass closures of psychatic care facilities.There's no "there" to recieve them. Goldstone's is the clearest explanation for another poor policy.

Here is a useful list US Senators considering their vote regarding H.R. 1. Some may have declared, some have stated they are still considering their position. Consider letting them where you stand.
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"Democracy Dies in Darkeness," says the Washington Post who turned the lights off on Ann's laudable work. This prize belongs to her, not the Post which refused to publish this illustrated reporting. I will never regret cancelling my subscription when I did.

Released sixty years ago this week, Alphaville, Jean Luc Godard

I'm heartbroken. Sobule was wonderfully talented. Her partnerships with Richard Barone, Tom Morello, John Doe and others were precious. My heart goes out to her family, friends and the musical community at large. The organization I work with was preparing to host one of her very special shows.

ICE Invades Wrong Home, Steals Their Life Savings, and Then Leaves A woman says armed federal agents stole from her family and left their home trashed. “I know it was a little rough this morning,” one of them later told her.

reck·​less
1: marked by lack of proper caution : careless of consequences

Subheading: A woman says armed federal agents stole from her family and left their home trashed. “I know it was a little rough this morning,” one of them later told her.
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Elbow Up!

Happy Terry Pratchett Day

"What a place! What a situation! What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter." -Going Postal, Novel, 2004

YouTube video by Johnny Cash - Topic I Won't Back Down

This one goes out to JB in Springfield, IL. We hear ya.

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Another fifty for the journalist who asks if we can expect pay more for Spice Melange from Arrakis.

Two poems in the April 6 TPA Quarterly. One asking questions of the oligarchy, another (Drama School) on memorizing words gone rogue from their ancient burrows. TPA supports the efforts of Feeding Texas. Image: from the First Folio, Shakespeare, 1623. www.texaspoetryassignment.org/texas-school...

I dream of day when Robert Galbraith's inane memes are thing of the past. Until then, like her books, happily ignoring them.

From Gwendolyn Brooks:
The good man.
He is still enhancer, renouncer.
In the time of detachment,
in the time of the vivid heather and affectionate evil,
in the time of oral
grave grave legalities of hate - all real
walks our prime registered reproach and seal.
Our successful moral.
The good man.

It's great to have fantôma fanboys. Future plot device, no?

We will too, Governor!

When Pete Buttigieg, public speaker with the restraint of a Buddhist monk, says it this way, you know it's bad. Of course, you know it's bad. For a start: Hegseth should resign.

One in common. The Sheltering Sky is radiantly terrifying (terrifyingly radiant).
Galway Kinnell
Paul Bowles
Joy Harjo
Joan Didion
Adrienne Rich

Love these. Somewhere between the state fair sideshow midway posters of my youth ("Awe to the Giant Jungle Rats-Savengers of the Battlefield!") and the Grand Guignol. You can actually commission an artist from Ghana to paint one. The Occultists...just sayin'.

Want a Better Grocery Store? Support Union Workers. Workers are on the front lines of an increasingly bleak shopping experience, and they bear the costs of understaffing, underinvestment in facilities, and feeble safety measures.

Grocery workers are on the frontlines of an increasingly bleak shopping experience, and they bear the costs of understaffing, underinvestment in facilities, and feeble safety measures, writes Ella Fanger. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Some more: In the Birds and Night of the Living Dead, you focus on individual/community responses to the unexplained threat. More terrifying. It doesn't have to be "Uh-oh, you disrupted ancient burial grounds." An argument can be made that a moral lesson is the province of Sci-Fi. Imperative even.

Agree with "No." Horror is often horror because the presence of malevolence goes unexplained (in Lovecraft, for sure). "The Birds" doesn't offer reasoning for the change in nature's behavior. Neither in du Maurier nor Hitchcock's interpretation.

NEW: Colorado's best known immigration advocate, Jeanette Vizguerra, has been detained by ICE, according to her family and supporters. Vizguerra famously spent years living in a church to avoid deportation. www.9news.com/article/news...

So many great performances. I think of his Billy Bibbit in Cuckoo's Nest, as well. But, damn, those scenes with Mary Nell Santacroce as the Landlady literally make me tremble. Angst,desperation, pathos.Two superb actors imprisoned in a scene. Think anyone other than Huston could've pulled it off?

Steve Bannon Speaking Event in Colorado Springs Cancelled The far-right pundit was supposed to speak at the Antlers Hotel on March 28 before plans were nixed amid public push back.

When you are sent to bed without dinner in Colorado (after you've just stepped out of jail). This GOP gala was also previously cancelled at the Marriott Denver Tech Center due to a highly vocal citizen response.
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YouTube video by Vincent Hostak Evening Roost Sandhill Cranes

Prayers of many summers come
to roost on a moment
until it sinks under them
and they resume their journey-WS Merwin, from Migration

A minute of a journey of thousands of Great Sandhill Cranes in image and sound I collected 5 days ago in the San Luis Valley, CO.
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