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• A SENTIMENTAL CAT

  November 21, 2009

  • I’m a sentimental cat, particularly when it comes to cats and dogs and the love people share through them. So here’s my poem (an average sort of poem, I’ll admit) on that subject, published last week in The Blue Guitar, an online publication of the Arizona Consortium for the Arts. See page 27: http://www.theblueguitarmagazine.org/resources/Blue+Guitar+Fall+2009+76+pages.pdf
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• The Next Species

  October 21, 2009

  • We were talking about the next species to come. The species after Homo sapiens. She said she hoped its defining characteristic would be a new sixth sense. And when I asked her what sense that might be she said, “A sense of guilt.”  I formulated the idea that there already were members of the next species living here on our little planet. After all, it’s not always the case that a new ...
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• Here Comes the Sun

  October 10, 2009

  • These words are written and posted on the internet by the power of the sun. And the fact of it makes me think of Richie Havens and Montana. We have just installed solar panels on our roof here on the very edge of the edge of Tucson, up against the Santa Catalina Mountains in the Sonoran Desert. And I feel like singing of the smiles returning to our faces.  It’s not the first time we’ve ...
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