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Poetry Friday

APPROACH OF WINTER

The half-stripped trees struck by a wind together, bending all, the leaves flutter drily and refuse to let go or driven like hail stream bitterly out to one side and fall where the salvias, hard carmine,— like no leaf that ever was— edge the bare garden.

  — William Carlos Williams (1883 – [...]

Don't you worry, it's for a cause ...

In response to the recent passage of HR 1540, also known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which will have the chilling effect of suspending the right to due process, the right to a trial by a jury of an accuser’s peers, and the right to habeas corpus, now that the so-called “war on terror” [...]

Poetry Friday

IN DREAR NIGHTED DECEMBER

In drear nighted December,     Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne’er remember     Their green felicity— The north cannot undo them With a sleety whistle through them Nor frozen thawings glue them     From budding at the prime.

In drear-nighted December,     Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne’er remember     Apollo’s summer look; But [...]

Poetry Friday

WINTER TREES

All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.

  — William Carlos Williams (1883 – 1963), American poets & essayist.

Thanksgiving

Once again, it’s that time of year … time to sit back and reflect on all that I am thankful for.

I continue to rediscover my love for the bicycle, even though my lungs continue to rebel … and I’m looking forward to my “training camp” in Arizona. I still have a good job, which [...]

Poetry Friday

CHAOS IS THE NEW CALM

Chaos is the new calm violence the new balm to be spread on lips unused to a kiss.

Left is the new right as I brace for a fight with a man who stands on his remaining hand.

Fetid harbor harbor me until someone is free to drive me [...]

Poetry Friday

[the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office]

the cocktail hour finally arrives: whether ending a day at the office or opening the orifice at 6am [legal again to pour in californica]: the time is always right

we need a little glamour and glamour arrives: plenty of chipped ice a [...]

Poetry Friday

AN EASY SONG

It’s rained every day since you Went away. I’ve been lonely, Lonely, empty, tenderness — Longing to kiss the corners Of your mouth as you smile Your special, inward, sensual, And ironic smile I love Because I know it means you Are content — content in French — A special, inward, sensual, [...]

A UTCX first (and we think a first anywhere)

Keegan Swenson & Jason Sager in a dead heat.

Today, at the Utah Cyclocross Series Race #7 (held at Wheeler Historic Farm, in Murray, Utah), Keegan Swenson (Cannondale Factory Racing) and Jason Sager (Team Jamis) finished in a dead heat for first place; which we believe to be a first, not only in history in [...]