Little Red Books & Some Poetry Potpourri

A couple short videos including some poetry reading

Hello, Friends!

Today I recorded a little video about the Chinese app RedNote and some brief context for The Little Red Book, a key symbol during China’s Cultural Revolution.

Below that, you will find another video of me reading some recently written poetry along with the text of the poems.

There are no new poetry comics this week, but I did publish a personal essay on Medium with some haiku comics, and you can read it for free with this link or by clicking the image below:

Mom/Mother

Mom and mother
shared a body but,
were separated by an
incomprehensible chasm.

They’re both buried now, 
and when I miss Mom,
I eat a handful of semi-sweet
chocolate chips
because they taste like 
her love.

Selection of Around Town Haiku

holiday lights still 
cling tight to front porch eaves 
of happy houses

late afternoon gray 
skies—air stagnation with no 
precipitation

desaturated 
leaf litter covers the ground 
joy of change is gone

blackbird hard at work 
hunting for food on the lawn—
watched by poet

moss surrounds the base 
of a bare, ancient oak tree 
blanketing its roots

dull mid-afternoon 
the songbirds are all napping— 
cell phones are chirping

a bright yellow door 
invites visitors to a 
plain two-story house

for want of a breeze, 
long-dead leaves dangle from limbs 
of motionless trees

afternoon joggers 
try to jump-start stagnate air 
with heavy breathing

haze lingers over 
my mind and my valley, low 
visibility

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