Poems & Other Lies
Book Club
Book club was at mom's house tonight, so Andy brought mom up here for dinner while our wives were otherwise occupied. I spent the day scouring the house and cooking. We had pork loin and cornbread. Andy brought a salad, wine and beer. After dinner we had drinks,...
Good Morning
5/15/26 45F (7.2C) Broken cloud cover drifts above wet ground. It rained some more last night. An inconstant breeze flutters the oaks' leaves, making them shimmer. A crow caws over the cooing of doves, like the rasping smoker's voice of a bar floozy...
Good Morning
5/14/26 5:45 49F (9.4C) Cloudy. Calm, no rain. I think I will put some more corn in the ground this morning. If the wind doesn't come up, I'll burn the blackberry briars I cleared from around the rabbit hutch yesterday. Perhaps I should go up in the...
Good Morning
5/13/26 6:00 50F (10C) Mostly cloudy, windy, damp. A solitary spring storm to punctuate the drought. Trees sway and rattle in the gusts, spent blooms and small cones falling like last night's rain. The ground is wet, with puddles here and there. The...
Good Morning
5/12/26 6:00 48F (8.8C) Calm, partly cloudy. Clouds dot the blue sky like tufts of cottonwood dander drifting by. A robin buzzed me, so low I felt the breeze of his wings beating the air. Amy is home from California. Good morning. ...
Good Morning
5/11/26 6:00 43F (6C) A clear, windless morning, calm and quiet. The waning crescent moon floats ghost-like between the trees. A swallow glides by, white belly shining in the sun. The water casks have been soaking overnight. They still leak but are...
Good Morning
5/10/26 6:30 48F (8.8C) Calm air, cloudy sky. Tattered white clouds open and shut across a pale blue sky. The sun has climbed above the ridge. Birds twitter, the dog barks, squirrels run up and down the oaks. It is a mellow Sunday rising. Good morning....
Good Morning
5/9/26 6:00 47F (8.3C) Clear sky with just a tickle of a breeze. The ground is littered with stringy yellow-green flowers, fallen from the oaks. We will likely have a bumper crop of acorns come autumn. The corn starts I put in the ground yesterday look...
Good Morning
5/8/26 5:00 48F (8.8C) Cloudy with an attempt at a slight breeze. Rightous birdsong fills the morning, still cloaked in the dull blue light preceding dawn. The little black banty didn't make curfew last night and is wandering the chicken yard complaining...
Good Morning
5/7/26 6:15 51F (10.5C) Blue sky ringed with clouds.No wind, no rain. Birds chatter in the otherwise quiet morning. Twenty minutes pass. The neighbor's dog begins to yap, raising Walter's vocal ire. The rooster crows. Birds are singing. The sun crests...
