Oh the beauty of this moment on the same date in 2015!
the coast
won’t boast;
it waits
in silence…
for you to grow
wild!
Definition #250 Maine Coast
23 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry
At the Deep Heart of Things
23 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in At the Deep Heart of Things, Poetry Tags: At the Deep Heart of Things, Don in batman glasses, Feb 2011, quarks, Ronald Wallace, String Theory, the ellipical music of gossip, when everythng's flying apart
Don in Batman Glasses (February 2011)
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String Theory
by Ronald Wallace
I have to believe a Beethoven
string quartet is not unlike
the elliptical music of gossip:
one violin excited
to pass its small story along
to the next violin and the next
until, finally, come full circle,
the whole conversation is changed.
And I have to believe such music
is at work at the deep heart of things,
that under the protons and electrons,
behind the bosons and quarks,
with their bonds and strange attractors,
these strings, these tiny vibrations,
abuzz with their big ideas,
are filling the universe with gossip,
the unsung art of small talk
that, not unlike busybody Beethoven,
keeps us forever together, even
when everything’s flying apart.
“String Theory” by Ronald Wallace from For Dear Life. © University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015.
You Smell Bad
22 Jun 2016 1 Comment
in Poetry, You Smell Bad Tags: book I designed, memorializing Camden, our whippet/lab dog, You Smell Bad
https://cloudup.com/cA-waNBEl84
This is a book I designed
to memorialize Camden,
our whippet/lab grand-dog!
WordPress tutors taught me how to use Cloudup
to show this PDF to you!
Don’t give yourself to a machine…
22 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry
There is more to human life than increasing its speed!
the machine in your life
intrusions
confusions
protrusions
probes
selections
knobs
ALERT
DISCERN
PREFERENCES
let the human choose.
take time
distinguish yourself!
Point of View
22 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry, point of view Tags: at light, father and son stare, Highlights, living eyes of loved ones cherished, point of view
2012
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Father and son stare
at light-highlights-living eyes
of loved ones cherished.
Leaving the Motherland
21 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in Poetry
I was loving poetry in 2014!
bee comes along…picks up the pollen…
bee alights
pollen sticks
seed blows
roots
buds
you’ve left mother:
found soil.
air, water, fire, earth:
elementary.
Idol
21 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in Idol, Poetry Tags: a satisfied mind, I want to see enough, Idol, illustrated by Cheri Rowlands, not more, when I look up
illustrated by Cheri Rowlands
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when I look up I
want to see “enough”-not more:
a satisfied mind.
Pillow Back
20 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in Pillow Back, Poetry Tags: fur, illustration by Elizabeth Rose Stanton, Just the right height, just the right slope, Mom, Pillow Back, scent, silken milk, with heart beat
illustration by Elizabeth Rose Stanton
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Just the right height, Mom
Just the right slope, with heart beat,
scent, fur, silken milk!
Father Flow
19 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in Father Flow, Poetry Tags: celebrates in house with no closed doors, Father Flow, gifted my son, it was for him, knew the children would play with it, men's manicure set
I gifted my son
with a men’s manicure set.
His daughter opened the gift and played with it for 15 minutes.
I thought it was for him.
He knew the children would play with everything in the family.
He celebrates “father flow”
in his house with no closed doors.
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Blaise Pascal wrote: “Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, still less what the mind is, and least of all how a body should be united to a mind. This is the consummation of his difficulties, and yet it is his very being.”
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Stress Test
18 Jun 2016 1 Comment
in Poetry, Stress Test Tags: appointmant time, Business Manager, commode, cubby, diarrhea, hospital gown, Hospital Patient Manager, Lexiscan, modesty, paraphrasia, privacy, procedure, scanning chair, Stress Test
Went to Have A Stress Test
Here’s what happened:
1 Appointment time ignored by staff. Waited over 45 minutes.
2 No privacy in waiting room, hallway, testing rooms, scanning area or nuclear injection site.
3 No modesty allowed for application of electrodes for Lexiscan/ Myoview or for scan after.
4 Although Debbie administered the Lexiscan, two male techs stood and watched every move.
5 I was not given a hospital gown to open in front or a private room to change and store my personal items.(I had to carry them around for 4 hours)
6 On the gurney, there was no sheet to cover me or my body while electrodes were placed on my abdomen.
7 My gastric bypass caused extreme pressure and bowel contractions.
8 Couldn’t leave the table; didn’t know where the bathroom was, or if I could stand up.
9 Had to dress, find and walk to a bathroom not occupied, and use the 30 minutes specified for drinking 20 oz of water and some crackers to manage my diarrhea.
10 All of this was in full public view.
11 Next I was seated in a rigid chair for the scanning and was told not to move for twenty minutes, sitting half off the chair with my arms extended over my head, electrodes attached in 3 places on my abdomen, and holding in my bowels.
12 Inane chatter distracted me from the discipline I had to exert.
13 The diarrhea lasted for 5 hours after my release, I had semantic paraphrasia, and was disoriented.
In order to go back for Phase 2, I require the following:
1 Give me a small private cubby with hospital gown, and a locker for my personal items to stay until the testing is completed.
2 Have one woman accompany me throughout so I can comply easily to the procedure without panic at having a bowel movement in public. There should be a commode for the exclusive use of the patients within view to prevent my soiling myself in the testing room.
3 When a woman is administering the test, get the men standing around out of there. It takes privacy away from both of us and is demeaning.
4 Formulate a procedure if a patient gets diarrhea and print it out so everyone follows one protocol.
These changes should be presented to the Business Manager and the Hospital Patient Advocate
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