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Month: August 2020
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Emojiing again
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Evacuating
..…when it is over said and done…..
I packed my bags before the way out was too distant. The longer I stayed the greater the possibility of maybe this time, maybe tomorrow, I would walk out the door. This time would be different; a perfect opportunity, a break through in a time of near disparition.
It had been five months since I had traveled. Was flying safe? Was driving safe? Would I accidentally walk into someone else’s sneeze? Touch a surface that hadn’t been Cloroxed? Where would I eat? How will I get water?
So many questions and now a hurricane was rolling through the gulf. Evacuating made it possible. Evacuating blew me out of the house, into the car and down the road. Evacuating meant I could leave everything behind in an instant, hoping I will return another time.
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dVerse prompt on verbing. Evacuating— evacuate now— so many people evacuating from fire and hurricane. I was planning on leaving before the need to evacuate. Quote from Allison Adele Hedge Coke from “A Time”
Scare Tactics
Do not call for Wrinkles the Clown
he might just burn your house down
not a prank or urban myth
if you make that call
you will lose some sleep
His clown eyes are empty sockets
red dot on his nose
lips set in a clown frown
you won’t forget
& of course the wrinkles
What benefit is there
in giving people such a scare
Peter Piper
So many times
this nursery rhyme spoken
a tongue twister
with its own history
Pierre Poivre
missionary from France
with an eye on peppers
places to plant and grow
and a recipe for pickling
no refrigeration
so Peter Piper picked
and pickled
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dVerse prompt on stream of consciousness following my first experiment with pickling peppers. This rhyme was a childhood favorite.
Fish in Jamestown Harbor
There are fish in the water so the fishermen put out their boats, night and day. The nets bring a haul, both large and small, and when the boat is full, it is pulled ashore and the fish are released onto land in baskets and buckets. Some are smoked right on the beach, while others are spiced and fried. Who knows where the rest of the fish go.
The Jamestown Fishing Harbor Project has began with the demolition of existing structures at the site of the Chinese funded $60 million Jamestown Fishing Harbor Complex. There will be dredging of 118,000 cubic meters in the harbor basin and shipping channels; construction of hydraulic structures, seawall, a breakwater, and supporting facilities including a fish market and a processing area. Who knows where the rest of the people will go.
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dVerse prompt on boat. On May 21, 2020, the demolition of over 400 temporary and permanent structures occurred at Jamestown fishing community. Is this neocolonialism or a move to benefit the Ghanaian people?
Photo taken in Jamestown in September 2019.
Hot
Leaves fall
from pepper plants
sweet banana
jalapeño
ghost and scorpion
Habaneros did just fine
picked with gloves
slit seeded and diced
cooked outside in two cups water
don’t touch your eyes
Add vinegar and blend
into tasty habanero hot sauce
good on everything
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dVerse prompt on a garden quadrille. My garden is a hot mess.
On Bees
great souls in little bodies—- Virgil Book 4
Wings
It was the first death I could remember—-my father’s father, my grandfather. It came as a surprise, an aneurysm, as the family sped on the highway trying to get to the hospital. We were too late. I never saw the body.
How could I make sense of death at such a young age?
When we returned home, I picked the butterflies off of the grill of the car. These were dead, their soft bodies smashed, the wings intact. I took those colorful wings to the garden across the street. I sat under the overgrown asparagus in the corner of Laird’s garden and buried the butterflies one by one.
life is a flicker
mind what is most beautiful
pathway to the rest
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dVerse prompt on how nature plays into our lives. This is a haibun about a death and how nature played a role in how I dealt with that death. I was six years old and loved butterflies.
Birth Days
Some birthdays are easy to remember like when the family got together and my favorite aunt bought a cake that set the bar for all cakes proceeding it. A January birthday meant I could wear the dress my gramma made for Christmas. Uncle Clifford snapped a Kodachrome memory.
On birthday number five, all my friends set at the extended dining room table. I remember the balloons. I remember blowing into a red balloon and it expanded out and away and I swear it grew nearly as long as the table.
celebrate the day
when no one wants to destroy
and a new birth comes
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