With just a pocket full of hope

 

Big fat orb spider season

 

Pandamnic

Pandammit
Navalny was spiked with the Russian vaccine
Wildfires in the west
Bubonic plague highlights
Asteroid coming to an election near you
Cancel Trump culture for eternity
Other aborhents, to name;
Shields without masks
Noseless masks
Maskless nose
Noses are horror show!
Other  reminders;
Washing AND sanitizing
Masks AND two arm-lengths distancing
What size arms?
Agile elbows and touching mistakes
Self hugs
Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter
Get together?

Nonchalance

 

On/Off Ramp

Beggar-ticks and beggars live there
Red-winged black bird,
tall wavy grasses,
feathery eastern red cedars,
untouched trees, jungles, ruins, all waiting
It's the home of fantasy farms, bandits, runaways, hideaway, getaway
Drifter residue in worn slatted Ozark signs
A telescopic, telepathic view transports you to the oasis in a derelict land,
as you're waiting
Off ramp gonna save your life, On ramp gonna set you free

Be a rose and cover your nose

 

I did not volunteer for this

 The people, the people

Desensitization process-

Hail Mary

 

What's that like, bird?

 To have a live cicada vibrating in your beak?

You flew from branch to branch,

looking for a good spot for lunch.

All the while, your little feast rattled.

Pink August

In my world, the growing season ends and begins with pink.
From pink April to pink August

My daughter, the mushroom scientist, is using art to get her thinking right for her experiment to make poisonous mushrooms nonpoisonous.

We have had quite a harvest of fungi the last few weeks of July:
Gilled and pored
Ruby Boletes
Smooth Chanterelles
Meadow Mushroom, white with pink gills-adorable
Hygrophorus Milkcap
Russula cerolens
Turkey tail
Pale brittlestem
King Alfred's cakes
Scaly ink cap, dissolves into black liquid
Thin-walled maze polypore
A mushroom growing in a sign stake with the cutest baby mushroom in tow
A Smurf village made of ruby boletes under the Echinacea
Jellied false coral fungi
Tapioca slime mold

We made spore prints for the first time too!  Looking for that purple print!

A sampling:

Hippy gifs

FAR OUT!

strength to endure

Ad astra per alas porci

To the stars on the wings of a pig

Repeat all day

I'm in a state, I'm in a state, I'm in a state

I also live in a series of bell jars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Prototype_of_the_Kilogram

If-a you could, you would

Observation #333

First sound of cicadas at around 8:50 this evening. Just a short burst, then it was done. Heard it again the next night, similar burst. It was like someone turned on the cicada radio with the volume set too loud and then quickly turned it off.

Where is Sanctuary?

I need an ankh

Happy House

We've done no wrong with our blinkers on It's safe and calm if you sing along
This is the happy house-we're happy here in the happy house.
To forget ourselves-and pretend all's well There is no hell.

Celebrate Fireworks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I want to go home, Lena.

I don't wanna go back
I don't wanna go back
I don't wanna go back to work
A sitting duck in pandemic soup
is not my cup of tea
just want to be home in my own germies

Home is where I want to be

Handwash not brainwash
E. pluribus unum
July 4th spells
burning three snakes simultaneously
White russian with a poot
mixed with a drumpf
Flush it away
dreams about human waste
Probiotic or prebiotic?
Handwash not brainwash
We the people chant
E. pluribus unum
shadow spirits of ourselves multiply and spread out over the country,
heading east
to overcome the white house throwing a tantrum
all the shadow spirits come together to make a giant shadow spirit of you
hold it down, lull it, try to lull it, rocking back and forth
if you made it rest, good.
if not, it was still productive.
I hope you have a yard and someone to be with and sparklers
lots of sparklers.

End of June

Remember to wear blue
Toward the end of June
When the cornflower is in bloom
You can hide in a ditch with nothing to do


The cancer crab is on us all

"And just because we love us, doesn't mean we hate you."
-Masani Barnwell, NJ Bookstore co-owner of Source of Knowledge

Ms. Barnwell, left

a hole in the wall

I don't know you all from a hole in the wall
jump in on sensory deprivation, shrooms and dissolution of ego
ego death she said
not a bad idea.

I don't know you all from a hole in the wall
Still, I'm gaining energy from the room
I'm two wild and crazy guys
cackling and awkward hugs

I get sick
I get sick
Why-o why-o why-o

I don't know you all from a whole in the wall
but I'm loving you
All my tmi airing out to dry
It's so sunny here
I'm so funny here

I get sick
I get sick
Why do I do why

I guess it doesn't matter, it depends on the wall
I know me and I notice holes
But I don't know how to stop the self-flagellation

Maybe float tanks, shrooms and ego death

dogwood drupes

Say it again
dogwood drupes
soft as a magnolia catkin
the guh after the ah hits the heaviest,
especially if you let the
drupes drop out of your mouth
dogwood drupes

Observation #521

First lightning bug sighting!! This summer it seems like there are lightning bugs everywhere.

Bundie nature of things

Poemettes

Have you ever watched a snake climb from one tree to another?
It's like a vine in real time
are snakes and vines related?
did one vine reach too far and
break off,
rootless and free?

juneberries and thyme

warnings on hotdogs
hotdog warnings
victorian illustrations of 8 year olds saying ass
247 Trolls
Campbell kids saying hot damn!
butthole, buttholes, butt nuggets,
my butt, your butt, butts
Victorian butts class it up

Octo rock

Odyssey
Ram!
Dad
Mom
Brother
Sister
Dogs
Love

COVID Trends

long nose hair and shaved heads
cowboy rustler bandana
face mask fuzzy dice
Lysol perfume
copper revival
snakes everywhere
squirrel family reunions
no loud talking
no talking at all,
except for the birds
listening to birds
*I hope they don't spread it,
don't think of bird flu*
idiots in charge
distrust of leadership
lives in the hands of the brainwashed
masks to protect others
masks for spreading kindness
masks cuz we're all in it together
your freedom for masks?
don't you want to play bandit?
freedom from not having to look good
freedom to hide your expression
faux spectacles
face shields
smiling with your eyes