Wrightings

  On a specific Sunday in May, everyone goes to their places of worship. But instead of bringing money to put in their collection plates, they bring in a flower. It doesn’t matter if it’s a rose, or a daisy, a tulip or a dandelion, but as people enter these so-called sacred buildings, they walk down a space between the seating toward where a speaker stands in quiet reverence. As they approach this area of the building, the entire crowd is hushed except for the low hum of organ or piano music, maybe a choir is singing some sweet tune about Mother Earth or Mother Nature. The individuals solemnly place their floral pieces into vases of consecrated water, and then the individuals go and find a seat. The speakers at the front of the building then speak words over the flowers and the people. They tell stories of motherhood and reiterate how people should treat each other. There is generally more music, and then near the end of the gathering, people are invited to take a...

  Politicians (after Angels by Russel Edson) useless torture devices       government cares not what they do      Insects, all, so unhuman . . .      attracted by bright shiny things      often reflecting off their own      exoskeleton, water barrier They often inspire man to do more like an army marching shoulder to shoulder with one purpose              Like exterminating the insects themselves with pesticides       30 percent of all insects face extinction  When they are gone there will be no need for politicians.

 

  After (After Turning the Clocks Back by Jennifer Moxley ) I make a pallet bed of 12 milk crates, Cuddle with my giant yellow lab Listen to the traffic on the highway  ignore the rumble of my stomach A cockroach scrambles up the wall I squeeze my eyes closed, remember squeezing into a car with too many friends at lunch to go smoke and buy day old pastries to eat lunch in the park. Time ticked with the bend  of my old man’s back, crooked by years of heavy work and falling out of a deer stand and I knew life was never going to be easier

 Teachers Molding lives in knowledge and curiosity..  Will artificial intelligence replace us?  Not until emotions are no longer needed.

  Siblings  Nature has decided on states of being as three, solid liquid and gas space measured in length width and height while atoms are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons. From red, blue, and yellow all the hues are formed, and dinner is served with a knife fork and spoon, decisions made with rock, paper, scissor games show threes the magic number. There should always be three like the musketeers, one for all and all for one,  or the stooges, why I outa because every family needs an oldest, a middle and a baby.