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EDEN

Yellow-oatmeal flowers of the windmill palms like brains lashed to fans- even they think of cool paradise,

Not this sterile air-conditioned chill or the Arizona hell in which they sway becomingly. Every time I return to Phoenix I see these palms

as a child’s height marks on a kitchen wall, taller now [...]

Another trip around the sun …

CROSSROADS  

The second half of my life will be black to the white rind of the old and fading moon. The second half of my life will be water over the cracked floor of these desert years. I will land on my feet this time, knowing at least two languages and who my friends [...]

McDowell Mountain Regional Park

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McDowell Mountain Regional Park, originally uploaded by flahute.

McDowell Mountain Regional Park, originally uploaded by flahute.

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Service

Obama highlights plan for national service.

(CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled a plan to create volunteer and service opportunities to help tackle some of the nation’s most pressing issues, part of his weeklong focus on patriotism and national service.

“This won’t be a call issued in one speech or one program — [...]

Video Poetry (G.I. Edition)

STREET DOGS – BACK TO THE WORLD

I got to go back to the world Back to my girl Back to my family and kids Have to go and see my home again Don’t want my life to end Before my time is due And the kids are big

Just got the postal package [...]

Poetry Friday

SILENCE

There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold grave—under the deep deep sea, Or in wide desert where no life is found, Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound; No voice is hush’d—no life treads silently, But clouds and [...]