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Category: Wild Card

Living with a hunk o’ meat or something

December 9, 2023November 9, 2023 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Or was that “loving’?

I really do wonder about some of the notes I collect.

How many remotes do you need?

December 8, 2023November 9, 2023 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Sometimes it takes more effort to find the remote control you need for a particular device than to actually get up, go over, and push a button right there.

If the device even has buttons nowadays.

As his grandmother says

December 7, 2023November 9, 2023 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

“He’s got negativity about things he doesn’t know shit about.”

And I’m fond of them both.

Yet I’m thinking the perspective could apply to many others in the public sphere.

Out of the darkness

December 6, 2023October 16, 2023 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

How precious the Light is in these shrinking days.

One lesson of the Chanukah menorah: faithfulness multiplies the Light.

 

Kinisi 186

December 3, 2023October 16, 2023 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

“His poems are brilliant, even though he leaves lines unfinished, work uncorrected.”

 

Kinisi 185

November 26, 2023October 7, 2023 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Companions, as excess baggage.

 

 

An epitaph springing from a recent news event

November 24, 2023November 9, 2023 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

DIED

WHILE CARVING

PUMPKINS

AT SEA

We were spared the full hurricane

November 23, 2023November 9, 2023 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Lee blew down
all
the wild apples

to ferment
for crows
and deer

to turn tipsy

Kinisi 184

November 19, 2023October 7, 2023 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Barbarian

Barbers

Kinisi 183

November 12, 2023October 7, 2023 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Mottled pink and gilt-edged clouds

new moon

 

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