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INNER SPACE

Posted on January 30, 2015 by John | 3 comments

Purple Milkweed – May 2, 2011

Alien spaceships,
purple people eaters
or just milkweed in bloom.

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USELESS ACCOUTERMENTS

Posted on January 29, 2015 by John | 1 comment

Fiddleneck – April 5, 2011

I’d make music
if I could only trumpet
from my fiddle neck.

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SPRING 2011

Posted on January 28, 2015 by John | 2 comments

Phacelia (Scorpionweed) and Lichen – May 15, 2011

Competing everywhere you look
grace and color
growing together.

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PURPLE CHINESE HOUSES

Posted on January 27, 2015 by John | Leave a comment

Purple Chinese Flowers – April 5, 2011

Cleaning houses
in the high-rent district
has certain advantages.

NASA

Posted on January 26, 2015 by John | 2 comments

Wild Cumcumber, Sierra Man-root – March 10, 2013

No need to go to outer space
to touch the stars
sparkling at our feet.

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Mizpah

Posted on January 26, 2015 by John | 1 comment

It was good to see the historic Mizpah Hotel open for business again in Tonopah, Nevada when we passed through Sunday on our way to Elko. Traffic was light across the Great Basin, as we only met 74 cars between Tonopah and Carlin, some 250 miles.

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TOGETHER

Posted on January 25, 2015 by John | 5 comments

Phacelia (Scorpionweed) – May 15, 2011

If we all lean in the same direction
maybe we can change
the world.

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Ramblin’ Jack

Posted on January 24, 2015 by John | 11 comments

I’ll be thinking of my friend Jack this coming week in Elko, Nevada, one of the first hands I shook at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in 1989, as we waited to get our schedule of sessions, poetry and song. I had to introduce myself, having watched him perform at the Ashgrove many times in the late 60s. Our direct link to Woody Guthrie and the pure heart of the working man, he’s been magically expressing himself on stage for over 60 years.

WPC — “Express Yourself”