1928 Bridge in Northeast Kingdom Vermont

School Street in East Haven, VT

Jerry Johnson With Reeve Lindbergh at Signing

St. Johnsbury Athenaeum April 11, 2018

"Montpelier in the Afternoon"

"Montpelier in the Afternoon"

Words Fail

Double rainbow Lyndonville, Vermont

Now We Know Who's On the Album

Marianne Ihlen

SEE: So long, Marianne: Profoundly moving story behind the death of the beauty who inspired some of Leonard Cohen's greatest songs...

"It Ain't What You Know"

It ain't what you know
Yo
It's what you know
That
. . just
. . . . ain't
So.
July 30, 2016
(with apologies to Mark Twain)

Life Among the "Servile" Puppies

"You would think it would occur to him, 'Every place I've ever been, everyone has hated me. My only shot is to tie my wagon to Donald Trump. Maybe I can be attorney general or solicitor general.'"

Ann Coulter

Calls Senator Ted Cruz "a little bitch"

Our Next First Lady?

Melania Trump

"Lock Her Up!"

Chris Christie indicts Hillary at GOP convention

She Can Stand in Front of My Flag Any Old Time

Melania Trump

Hero of the Day

Jonathan Schoop knocks in two runs against Dodgers in 14th inning

Somewhere West of Woodstock

No Left Turn

Route 2, Burlington, Vermont

MOSCOW POSTER: “Smoking Kills More People than Obama, Although He Kills Lots and Lots of People”

“Don’t smoke, don’t be like Obama.”

Hunger in Vermont?

Free food being offered for the youth of Montpelier.

But nobody showed up.

They made it more attractive by freshening up the sandwich board.

But it didn't make the youth of Montpelier hungry, I guess.

Poetry Society of Vermont @ Phoenix Books in Burlington April 25, 2015

BACK: Sam Hewitt, Tamra Higgins, Danny Dover
FRONT: Nancy Vandenburgh Brunelle, Elizabeth Stabler, this poet, Regina Murray Brault,
Dan Close, Joanne Mellin
MISSING: Corey Burchman

The PSOV reading at Phoenix Books in Burlington last Saturday, as a part of National Poetry Month, was notable for light, comedic verse—some of it even rhyming. I'm not used to such things in Moose Country.

For myself, I read a couple dozen quatrains—somehow squeezing them into my allotted time (did I indeed?)—including quite a few newer ones.* I started with "It's God Who Works Things Out" and worked my way through a pile of them** I'd been editing for possible production. Included were two what I call "logic" poems I'd converted to quatrains: "Maintaining Position" and "If You Solve My Riddle". I finished up, I think appropriately, with "Your Dying Star".

For the second round I read "It Goes On" and "The Flowing Ink" (both 2014). The last line of the latter poem I was futzing with till the last second. 

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*posted at this blog (click on "quatrains" label in "tag cloud" at right, or below any quatrain you discover here).
**others included "You Can't Go Home Again", "Remembering the Hug", "the Youth of Today Are Different", "As the People's Poet", "Fix a Thing for Me", "Come Visit Me in Outer Mongolia", "Way Up There In Sweden", "A Poem Is a Painting", "What Can I Teach You?", "Ignorant Bliss", "Such a Persnickety Brand", "Inked Feelings in Metered Rhyme", "The Man Who Didn't Exist", "Killer Eyes", "Then the Hugging Came", "Did You Know", "A Certain Razzmatazz", "Sundays Are for Papers",

Haiku Workshop in West Burke: April 12, 2015

l-r Sarah, Mary Steve, Abby, Louise, Olivia, Denise, Jonathan, Nan, Judy, Judith

My workshop output (after our little nature hike to the bridge and back): 

Shaggy ponies

Watch us pass

We say 'hi'.

April 12, 2015

Country bridge

Racing water

Sounds like life.

April 12, 2015

Force of Nature

Someone's child

Races by.

April 12, 2015

Brightly shining

Returning sun

Melts the snow.

April 12, 2015

Sarah, Jonathan, Mary, Steve, Denise, Abby, Louise, Olivia

Which Finger Is Longer?

Such wide shoulders you have!

Wear heals much?

My, how tall you are!

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Ice Is . .

"Right-Wing Hit Man"

Leon Trotsky?