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Friday, February 15, 2019

Be It What It Will

Midnight Express
—Poems and Photo Artwork by Smith, Cleveland, OH



STATUS REPORT 285

Black cat in lap,
olive eyes watch me
through the purr.

Falling snow scatters light,
softens sounds, sweetens strife.



 Clownburst



Leaf from tree
flies with birds
briefly


 Wins of War



Wounded frog suffers—
full fat heron watches
unconcerned



 Lion's Den



Spider, quiet, waits
for whine of web—
juice



 Kronos



Winter cold kills plants
which rot in soil
flower spring warmth



 Old Comb By Lady



LIFE WITH WIFE

I dumb cracker
she smart cookie
I walking disaster
she good looky



 Lady K



Warming heater expands,
its metal cricket creak
music in the cold



 Outtaorder



Sometimes sleep slides us
one trouble to another
with but dream between



Be It What It Will



Today’s LittleNip:

PHILOSOPHY
—Smith

I got my pluses
I got my minuses
I got my in-betweens

So do you

___________________

Good morning and thanks to Smith (Steven B. Smith) for today’s tasty brunch in the Kitchen! And don’t forget that Robert Ramming and Charles Halsted will read tonight at The Other Voice in Davis, at the Unitarian Universalist Church on Patwin Rd., Davis, 8pm. Scroll down to the blue column (under the green column at the right) for info about this and other upcoming poetry events in our area—and note that more may be added at the last minute.

Poems-For-All Press has released a new book by Paul Fericano:
Things That Go Trump in the Night: Poems of Treason and Resistance, a lively collection of satiristic poems, comments, and prose about you-know-who, all put together by Robert Richard Hansen in his always classy style. And—Barack Obama has made a short comment on the back: “A searing and timely lampoon of the juvenile Trump dictum, and the courageous satirist who rescues truth from delusion.” Howzabout them apples!?! Check it out at outlawpoetry.com/2019/things-that-go-trump-in-the-night-poems-of-treason-and-resistance-by-paul-fericano/.

—Medusa



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