phobicly yours
superstitions
le chat noir
ladders
cracks in stones
spilling salt
and on
and you know some
for sure
I don’t
so this is a bad
day
as it was
certainly for the Templars
on 13 Friday
in 1307
(October)
and I have not had the best day
though
I hope you have
because
if you didn’t know the day or number
you might have a good or bad
day
regardless
and the same
a good
or bad
day tomorrow
hoping it’s good
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in 1307, the king of France got the approval of the pope to attack and kill the Knights Templar with the agenda to eradicate the order; the date was 13 October, and the day was Friday (all over France at the same time, Templar knights were captured, slain, or imprisoned to be slain a.s.a.p.)
and if cats, by the way, black and any kind, were not considered evil as likely devilish familiars—and so exterminated in great numbers throughout Europe—then the Black Plague might have been forestalled or in fact not happened, since cats tended to eat the rats that carried the fleas that carried the Bubonic infection
stepping off the soapbox now
photo by Adél Grőber on Unsplash
the drive
June
first fireflies
time to see as lights above
the darkling field
something bigger with wings
that flew by the front
and we
did not collide
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photo by Mike Lewinski on Unsplash
in this late season
it is bright and
hot
yellow
emerald like Oz
dark branches hold up spring
fullness
blossoms’
debut
voices to whispers in the trees
dismal bouts are done for now so
that
the moon should look clear
in its expressions in
the night
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photo by Simon Berger on Unsplash
sodden leaves by rain
black branches keep dimension
folded out pale sky
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photo by fr0ggy5 on Unsplash
the edge of Normandy back then
we like the beach
don’t we
and
for a moment
did a soldier
think if
in
a sliced half-minute
before
before getting to take a second
step
from the landing ramp
a couple thoughts
like
this is the beach
and
I think
I’d like the beach
being
from the real Omaha and
never stepping
on
warm sand before
and
should there be
a third
step
on the beach
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photo by Daria Strategy on Unsplash
on World Environment Day
on the day
World Environment Day
we may think of Earth
on our
reliance on the ground
even that which is
the solid planet
beneath
water and ice
and through and over air as well
and shall we keep it
Earth
sure
we are so used to it the firmness or
even the firmament by
Bibles
we step around the bad parts
don’t you know
the parts
that nature made
as can with
the bad parts made by us
if once
perhaps
by mistake and now
without doubt
by
will
and shall we leave our steps
reliant
the things we walk or ride on
too
the Earth whose sureness is in trouble
that splits
and lava-
magma-bleeds
and is
a hotter place than
ever
via human extractions
formulation
and how much do we believe in bunkers
really
that should protect us even
as the planet ‘round them
fails
there is no such protection and for now
nowhere else to go
except in orbit
maybe
where most of us will never go
and
can’t sustain itself for life
in body or
in spirit
meaning we give up on Earth
then
we are done
and other planets
other sentient species will
have to take
over
means for
foundation and if by
a change
benevolent inventing
and
no other
world kind
and yet
if we may style and make a world
and then a salutation
well
go
Earth
only and as
to cheer
for all
the elements that make
and keep
a world
made and kept anew
honestly and thoroughly
by us
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image by USGS at Unsplash
pointed leaves pressing
dark on glass before pale sky
wind returning rain
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photo by Homa Amani on Unsplash
“Waiting with frozen eyes.”
Tabriz, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran
President’s Cancer
My President has cancer
The kind
That killed my brother
Whose detection seemingly
Went late
And though he lasted through
The treatment and his life
Awhile
He was taken by the cancer away
From us
And what he knew
For sure of him
And so I feel strongly for this thing
My parents
And too many others I
Have known
While
This is about you
Mister President
Like
My brother
And I am sorry
And I wish you well through medical
Responses
Thank you for your service
By which we know
How to pray for you
In
Days
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Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash
graves say
(because they do)
hear them
while
we look at them and
hear
a message
as
we might wonder if they like the rows
or would they rather follow
contours
helter-skelter
around
trees
or as combined
through dells and over knolls
and gently curved
plus
with a wish for wildness
yet
they say at any time
so then
maybe we hear
and for certain days
articulate
a familied story from one loved or
waving narratives from
all the stones
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for Memorial Day
photo by Gabe Pierce on Unsplash
In the USA, Memorial Day is the last Monday in May (so this year 26); the day is a formal time for remembrance, mourning, and gratitude.
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