of culture (happy birthday to my sister)

A redux, for the occasion. of culture when I was little more than childmy sister a teenagerwe owned a reel-to-reel recordera brown quarter inch of plasticfed from one reel through a channelof pressing heads and circling rollers to the other push both buttons down when you're ready to record my sister I believe has cultured …

A Book Cover a day for seven days (Day 7). Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett

Day 7 I've been tagged by Mick Canning to choose and feature 7 book covers in 7 days. The covers of books that mean something special to me. This entry is for my Day 7 (and final) cover. Terry Pratchett What a great shame this man was afflicted by a form that scurviest disease of …

A Book Cover a day for seven days (Day 6). A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute

Day 6 I've been tagged by Mick Canning to choose and feature 7 book covers in 7 days. The covers of books that mean something special to me. This entry is for my Day 6 cover. A Nevil Shute Omnibus. I came across Nevil Shute fairly late and considered him to be too old fashioned …

A Book Cover a day for seven days (Day 5). Dune – Frank Herbert

Day 5 I've been tagged by Mick Canning to choose and feature 7 book covers in 7 days. The covers of books that mean something special to me. This entry is for my Day 5 cover. Dune Hands up if you've read all of the books in Dune - prequels and sequels and roads to? …

A Book Cover a day for seven days (Day 4). Guys and Dolls – Damon Runyon

Day 4 I've been tagged by Mick Canning to choose and feature 7 book covers in 7 days. The covers of books that mean something special to me. This entry is for my Day 4 cover. Damon Runyan was a wonderful writer of short stories set on Broadway in New York, during the Prohibition period …

A Book Cover a day for seven days (Day 3). The Wedding Party – H. E. Bates

Day 3 I've been tagged by Mick Canning to choose and feature 7 book covers in 7 days. The covers of books that mean something special to me. This entry is for my Day 3 cover. H. E. Bates was a wonderful writer of short fiction. He wrote during and after the Second World War …

A Book Cover a day for seven days (Day 2). Rocannon’s World – Ursula Le Guin

Day Two I've been tagged by Mick Canning to choose and feature 7 book covers in 7 days. The covers of books that mean something special to me. This entry is for my Day 2 cover. I can't go past Ursula K Le Guin as a writing heroine of mine. All the Sci Fi stuff …

A Book Cover a day for seven days. Don Camillo

I've been tagged by Mick Canning,  over at another social media location, to choose and feature 7 book covers in 7 days. The covers of books that mean something special to me. This is a real topic for me, as some years ago I made a choice to seek out and acquire books that I would …

the forest lewinii (ours)

let us all rise up high to sing a machine gun song chip-chip-chip-chip let the forests ring with our call chip-chip-chip-chip even unseen they will know we are here we are alive the forest . . . this forest is ours chip-chip-chip-chip chip ~

watching (who and who)

yellow bird little bird there you are here is me I came here to spend time watching you you came here I see you watching me yellow bird this is your place I am here and it is right that you watch me watch me leave ~