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Not Just Humidity

Flood Time

The atmosphere is
supercharged with folly
that pours down on us
June 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Drone

The drone is the stone
Ukraine slings at Goliath
forehead of Putin

The hell of war continues. Each new generation of weaponry makes us less safe. With the advent of small drones, huge aircarft carriers, billion dollar airpalnes, even high tech tanks
resemble the Maginot Line...
June 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Newly Hatched

Dragonflies don't seem
to fly but rather to float -
blue needles darn air

Of Air And Light

Poetry, that's hewn
of air and light, can let us
learn to see to be
June 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Apolitical Poem
Homage to Emily 77
essay of Doom needs reprieve of Mood crocus or daffodil will do for Spring is no artifact of Grief but intimate with it
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March 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
February 21, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Just published "The School On Magnolia: New Life For High School" written 47 years ago during my first year of medical school. Sadly, it is topical, as thinking adn pleasure in learning are under attack.
February 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
1. When we don't meet a patient as a person we fail them and ourselves

2. When we don't meet a person as a person we fail them and ourselves

3. Time is precious

4. Hurry steals it from us

5. Haraka haraka haina baraka ("Haste brings no blessing" in Swahili, Emmanueli on cone of Kilimanjaro)
December 20, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Treason against earth?

Musk and Bezos using their loot to prospect for another planet
while despoiling this one.

What are they fleeing?

Why are they fleeing?

Folly...consequential...

Do they find themselves uninhabitable?
December 16, 2024 at 12:20 AM
We live in the lght and shadow of our understanding, the two inextricably connected along a border whose intricacy is beyond gauging.
December 13, 2024 at 1:22 AM
Is wisdom what's left when everything else is put aside?

If so, it is the simple result of a process that is not simple.

So, if this is the case, the search for wisdom is, first of all, a search for the process of "putting to the side" to find the center.

This is the opposite of archery...
December 12, 2024 at 12:20 AM
Bec d'Ambes

At 2 I was an inverse Descartes tot,
they rumbled, they grumbled, they bit the dirt,
I knew they had feelings and intent, too,
abstraction's genius had not yet come on me
in the rubble of the refinery
that had fueled U-boats to hunt cold dark sea
and now was rising to feed new purpose
December 7, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Poems elude me
which is how
they come into being

and then disappear
like smoke that rises
and trails off

from fire
that is otherwise
unremembered
December 7, 2024 at 1:59 AM
Is there something like law of conservation of information, namely, that information can neither be created nor destroyed, but can be moved from compartment to compartment, as black and white holes?

This would be a law of nature.

There is a human fact, namely, that information can be ignored
December 5, 2024 at 12:57 PM
"Defenestration of cat"

Apocrypha

Descartes didn't throw cat out winow to see if he felt fear...

Descartes, human automaton excarnate in reason...

(T)reason against body...

Descartes, genius thrown frozen in fear out window into another dimension...

Soullless disembodiment...

Crash landing
December 4, 2024 at 10:03 AM
Descartes stripped surface bare of quality, gave it mathematical skeleton, Cartesian coordinates.

Descartes' mother died when he was one, leaving him to send out a projective schema to meet what he could not find.

Was this part of the impulse to his genius for abstraction, mind/body split?
December 4, 2024 at 1:33 AM
Bibi reached up to scratch his head, as if he were reflecting and felt two nubs...

his horns...

not of the same provenance as those of Michelangelo's Moses,,,

no awakening for him, deaf to the ram's horn...

Bibi, the face of plague,,,
December 3, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Michelangelo gave Moses horns. Why?

Hebrew qaran: radiance and horns...

Horns and light both project

Moses' stubs foundations for the huge rack of the law this ram carried...

Ram caught by his horns in thorn bush sacrificed in place of Isaac...

Horny, light, power...awakening

Shofar
December 3, 2024 at 7:59 AM

Forest

Forest of my brain
holds creatures undiscovered –
and I’m one of them
December 1, 2024 at 11:05 PM

A thread of tension and terror
runs through my life

now that I'm old
it has turned to gold

silken filament
runs through my fingers

as I wander maze
of me I have been

hurt and bafflement
are not gone

but I have happier way
to round past corners of me

catastrophe spared me
even as it did not
December 1, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Like a school of fish
a crowd knows what it is doing
only by intricate contagion
which bypasses thought

this can happen
in virtual space
and become actually
manifest as mob
November 30, 2024 at 4:44 PM
Interpretation interpolates interpreter...

nothing's immediate...
November 30, 2024 at 4:39 PM
AI devours energy, munches chips, remains disembodied...

Gresham's law: bad money drives out good...

Now, bad thinking drives out good, bad feeling drives out good...

AI is counterfeiter's dream co-conspirator...

I'm embodied, breathe, feel, think, walk, talk, sleep, dream etc...

Embodied!!!
November 30, 2024 at 1:16 PM