Sam Harrelson

Washington and Oregon added a great deal to my visited states map!
These are places where I’ve spent some time/nights/days…

 
Sadly, my world travel map is definitely lacking!

create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands
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Anna and I just returned from our Seattle trip and I’ll post lots about that soon.  In the meantime, here’s a great post from CosmicVariance…
This famous 1958 photo by Art Kane, A Great Day in Harlem,
brought together 57 jazz musicians for a group portrait. Luminaries
range from Count Basie and Coleman Hawkins to Charles Mingus and [...]

This one gets liturgical/existential/philosophical…

VOICES
Your perforated body speaks loud
      into
my head,
                              my brain hitting the hard wall
      of
ill-intention and poor

      reception.

It is here when I know you don’t
really exist –
                             [...]

Voodoo Universe

I manage time but still loose heart,
my brain vertigo hemorrhage of
gravitons and gluons.
Hands whirl on a silver circle
on the office wall,
timing the heart beats until Golgotha.

I smell the stench of veneer and
hide in the cave of your empty republic mentioned sunken city.
Yet I cannot stop the goose skin
death ticking of [...]

This one is self-explanatory…
Sclerosis = house or home

A word of advice:  don’t
listen to the voices from your murky oversexed perception of what may
be reality. 
Choke on a plum instead and kiss
the heart of the one who loves you. 
Smile at the great green deep and
imagine a world of
fencepost holes [...]

Here’s the second installment of Magnets Open All the Same.  My grandfather from my mother’s side has had a strange and lasting impact upon my life.  Some of my fascination with "fallen hero" characters come from the relationship I shared with him.  At the present, he is the closest relative of mine to die which [...]

Something to think about from one of my favorite daily reads, Chekov’s Mistress…
Be Diligent This Tax Season
Discussed: Paul Verhaeghen, Flemish Culture Award for Fiction, taxes

I have a friend who doesn’t care much about money (an ethos I envy but unfortunately, don’t share). He would give it away rather than bother with it, and takes [...]

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Last summer I wrote a series of 33 poems that I collectively called Magnets Open All the Same.  Over the next 33 days, I’ll be posting one poem a day even while Anna and I are in the great Northwest next week, thanks to the magic of the internets.
At the time, I had them [...]

I’ve been toying around with wordpress and typepad, trying to decide which blogging platform is the best for my preferences/needs. 
After much experimentation, I have to admit that I enjoy the typepad platform much more, and find the service easier to use.  I’ll be checking in on wordpress every so often, but for now, I’m [...]