Poems & Other Lies
Good Morning
1/12/26 6:30 31F (0.5C) Dark and icy calm. The moon, waning last quarter, hangs S SE, in a strand of clouds. A light east wind blows tufts and streamers across the stars. Walter Dawg has toured the perimeter. Finding everything in order, he is resting...
Good Morning
1/11/26 6:30 35F (1.6C) Cool, calm, with a light overcast. The moon in its last quarter is low in the south, mid-transit shining through the willows. Today is as a good as day as any to stand with our community and say "Fuck ICE. Fuck Trump. Fuck the MAGAts."...
Good Morning
1/10/26 6:30 33F (0.5C) Calm, dry, icy. The waning half moon glows dimly through a gauzey veil of clouds. Something just grabbed a duck from the pond. I could hear them thrashing, wings beating the water, and the frightened calls of his companions making...
Good Morning
1/9/26 6:30 33F (0.5C) Cold, calm. The waning moon is completely obscured by clouds. It is a dark morning. Amy's headlights sweep across the tipi poles as she pulls out to go to an early union meeting. I am proud of her. It is an important job, perhaps...
Good Morning
1/8/26 5:45 37F (2.7C) There is a light wind blowing a swirling, cold mist. The moon, waning gibbous, and at least one star pierce the thin clouds overhead. Both thermometers read 37F, but it feels colder than that and ice dots the horizontal surfaces....
Good Morning
1/7/26 6:30 38F (3.3C) Clear, mostly, with a cool, inconstant breeze. The moon, three quarters and waning, is resting atop the oaks. Stars are shining in a rich, blue sky. A pair of ducks just landed in the pond. Swooping silently in tandem they banked and...
Good Morning
1/6/26 6:45 32F (0C) The moon, waning gibbous, shines down through the freezing fog onto turf and leaves frosted with ice. A slight breeze flutters the streamers on the tips of the lodge poles . Yesterday, Walter was so clean and fluffy, but early this...
Good Morning
1/5/26 6:30 34F (1.1C) Quiet, cold, and calm. Partially cloudy with a few stars showing. The waning moon, two days past full, shines through the bare oaks. A light freezing mist wafts down, coating everything with a thin layer of ice. Christmas break is...
Good Morning
1/4/26 6:45 37F (2.7C) Fog in the trees, with cold, steady rain and no wind.
Good Morning
1/3/26 5:30 36F (2.2C) Raining, no wind, warm for predawn January. By 6:00 the rain had tapered off. The full moon, low in the west, peeks through a veil of clouds, then disappears again. Trump's forces have illegally attacked Venezuela with strike...
