snow is falling

 

snow is falling --

it makes a sound

like no other

bloginafog: A long time ago

 

A long time ago
We were reduced
to inventing agriculture
because already
we were too many.

 

 

Year of the Rabbit

far too often

the carrot and the stick--

Year of the Rabbit

 

noon on new year's day

 

 

Come and Go Blues; Allman Brothers (Live at Beacon Theatre, March 2003)

just one

 

just one that first comes,

then they all fly off together --
winter sparrows

 ;;;

 

You Can't Get There From Here ... (yet surely it's certain the End is quite near)

 

What went wrong? After long delays in response, including ignoring a referring health clinic's requests,
I went my way into the portal - and made an appointment myself!
My mistake was to then criticize their "value system" and "threaten" established protocol ...
Prior to this exchange, you couldn't get through to a clinician. Telephone numbers are unlisted, also, pharmacies closed. For several years since, in fact, coinciding with the date they abandoned most Medicaid patient's care. 

My initiative has garnered an ill reward. I'm entirely censored from their board.

For you Europeans who crow about your Public Health and advantage over profit,
the American Medicare Plan is consistently 2/3 of gross annual debt. Unlike Social Security, which can be adjusted, CMS will take us down in impending sovereign default - aren't you, pleased? - although of all the West, we'll be the last man standing.

My apologies for that defeat. Perhaps you'd be more comfortable if you could turn up the heat?

One question remains unanswered, it seems. How many lawyers fill out a Care Team?

Did The Former Soviet Union Experience What Awaits Europe?

 

graze

 

a mob of black cattle

grazes through the fallow --
autumn wind

 

 

a thin path

 

visible now,

a thin path down to the shore --

leaves falling on Lake Mallalieu

 

 

 

signs

 

elections signs,

and morning glories, strung along

the back lot's fence  

stand

 

"no more corn"

at the road side stand --
Indian Summer

Most days, I exhibit a certain lack of concern in my eye ...

 

 

 

... to this day rarely, if ever, to be challenged.

Pierce

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Pierce County corn fields --
a little bit raggedy

the closer you get

 

 

Summer moon

 

summer moon--
a drop of sweat

on Shiki's tanka

window

 

 

 people in each window--
a lawn freshly mowed
lies between us

 

U.S., Ukraine expand program to relocate Ukrainians to Japan

 

Omicron

 

 

cutting grass --

the shadow of Omicron

close on my heels

.

thin heat

 

a war brews

continents away --

 this thin heat

Elon

blood red moon --

Elon's satellites

mar the night sky      

the oarsman

 

 

verdant now, a forest

rises above the banks--
the oarsman

struggling upstream

 

 

 

April Fools ~ Yotsumono 

 

April Fool

  

loose ice clogs the river,

a snow drift crowds the bridge --

April Fool's Day

 

  Scott Ritter: Battle of the Donbass

Swede Hollow

 

 

 

Maidan

 
I'd just spent time analyzing my troublesome laptop with a computer tech, online, in the winter of 2014. This guy was different than any I'd spoken to before. He'd just recommended a competitor over his own software. I wanted to know more about the man.

"Where are you from, friend?"

"Ukraine."

His tone belied a weight as though burdened with some calculation - I'd heard of trouble. Not many others had. I couldn't quite phrase the question, fresh on my mind, uncertain as I was in how to frame it.
 

All I could muster was to ask about the weather. Where I live, we boast of our Latitude, as though it's some great fete to survive such extremes.




Maidan -
 a technician reports,
"it's cold as fuck"

cold moon

 

 

 

little village

 

 

this time every year

a little village springs up --

ice on the St. Croix

 

 

 

 

last man

 

 

last man standing--

dry socks, a pack of winstons

and johnny walker black

dark chocolate

 

 

 

Yotsumono: November (2017)

 

 

 

 November --
countless raindrops to measure
the length of a day


a veil of frost
tints Johari's window


ranks of children
prone and obedient
to a flickering image


Lebensraum,
a none too distant dream

 

 

Little Ice Age; Skating on the Thames

 

:::;;;