Poetry Reading with Ingrid Anders Tonight at Kefa Cafe!
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If you are in or near DC this evening, please join brilliant poet Ingrid Anders and I at Kefa Cafe in Silver Spring on Bonifant St right at the corner of Georgia Ave at
Nights like this
Sometime between day and night Sleep visited here for a moment, but Hurried on for some reason Someone else close was ready for sleep Too much to think about with you So far from me How are you? When will I
The early, early birds are chirping
The early, early birds are chirping In the very first part of The pre-dawn morning There is an order you see To the coming of day We have alarms and buzzers And all sorts of things built to Wake us to
Roll on, man.
Lord have mercy, man You’ll be ridin’ these roads Till God calls you home Don’t ya know Crossroads ain’t gonna let you go Just like Gregg Allman sang A back-end full of books And dirty clothes A head full of ideas and A
Another from the Road
Spring turning to summer Fruit trees all blossomed out Fields planted and 85 degrees Lines of real life ain’t so sharp Ain’t spring any more. Ain’t summer yet. Image Source: Derek Jensen via Wikimedia Commons © Creative Commons Copyright 2013 *If
The first hint of light in the East
The first hint of light in the East Birds awake Staking out their turf with chirps While I Struggle with darkness into light Night into day Sleep elusive played games all night Exhausted, rest still not fulfilled I wrestle with all I
Sickening Radical Right-wing Hypocrisy
When I was a union organizer in my early 30′s building the Georgia State Employees Union – SEIU 1985 in the late 1980′s – I got a call one day from the IRS. They
We choke our Earth at our peril
Now will the science deniers Deny the power of nature With the mile wide tornado That destroyed huge chunks Of Oklahoma And killed children in school and Folks in their homes and workplaces How many unbelievable weather disasters Will it take for
How Many People Must Be Killed and Pain Suffered Before We Get Busy on Climate Change?
First, let me remind all who are in the DC area of the book and poetry reading and signing that brilliant young poet Ingrid Anders and I are doing Friday night, May 24 at
Honoring the Fallen & Picking Up the Struggle
This past Saturday was a perfect spring-summer day in Chicago. The sun was bright. The air and sky were clear. There was a cool breeze off the lake. I joined with labor activists from across
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