12.31.2019 me
December 31, 2019
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my Faebook profile, background foto, and combo 12.31.2019.
I do a new one every day.
Elephant Things
December 26, 2019
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Paper cutouts, opening credits
the indie film of my childhood,
Babar on paper waves, hands in pocket,
Babar visits where the wild things are
Gray-brown sweet potato skin,
walking trees, ears buoyant
as butterfly wings alien headcases
accentuate elephant cognition;
catch the taxonomist’s imagination
Under the preponderance of labrador
bonehead browline – alarmed lady eyes
in tree knots and whirls
Old women of the sepia planet
the knees and belly of the mother goddess
unexpected grossness of that mouth lip
labia jutting over the
blue water of murmuring shadow
When tusked, beast
the dark forest of the cerebellum
loping orchestration walking mud,
painterly pointing trunk, brain
for their own traditions,
not for us! Brain
for their own things
~ Lady
last month’s feature… + the 49 previous
December 4, 2019
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Thanks to publisher/editor Kathy Kieth of California, here is my November feature on Medusa’s Kitchen –
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/11/bluebird-of-happenstance.html…
the usual 10 fotos, 9 poems.
This makes 50 features in 48 months, 4 years of Medusa Smith.
(There’re 50 because 2 months I had a 2nd Sunday feature.)
420 poems, 448 fotos, 30 songs, 55 years – so far… here are their links.
December 2015 – Just Different Crazy
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2015/12/just-different-crazy.html
December 2015 – Creation Mist
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2015/12/creation-mist.html
January 2016 – Twixt Ape and Angel
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/01/twixt-ape-and-angel.html
February 2016 – Poems from Six Decades
http://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/02/poems-from-six-decades.html
March 2016 – Status Report
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/03/status-report.html
April 2016 – Food in, Food Out
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/04/food-in-food-out.html
May 2016 – Dung or Diamond
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/05/dung-or-diamond.html
June 2016 – Truth du Jour
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/06/truth-du-jour.html
July 2016 – A Past That’s Worth Hiding
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-past-thats-worth-hiding.html
August 2016 – Looking for the Nice in the Nasty
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/08/doing-it-for-love.html
September 2016 – This Garden Uneven
http://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/09/this-garden-uneven.html
October 2016 – Those Ghosts In-Between
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/10/those-ghosts-in-between.html
November 2016 – Bring Back the Snake
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/11/bring-back-snake.html
December 2017 – Our Lonely Orbitsong
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/12/our-lonely-orbitsong.html
December 2017 – News From the Great Gauze
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2016/12/news-from-great-gauze.html
January 2017 – $uper$eeking
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/01/upereeking.html
February 2017 – Right Left of Wrong
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/02/right-left-of-wrong.html
March 2017 – Up, As in Barking
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/03/up-as-in-barking.html
April 2017 – Lady K
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/04/lady-k.html
May 2017 – Temple of Hope
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/05/temple-of-hope.html
June 2017 – They Call Me Bone
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/06/they-call-me-bone.html
July 2017 – He’s Alive!!!!
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/07/hes-alive.html
August 2017 – Fair is Fair
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/08/fair-is-fair.html
September 2017 – Incest in Sky
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/09/incest-in-sky.html
October 2017 – Blues in my Pockets
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/10/blues-in-my-pockets.html
November 2017 – My Voice Raised in Bell & Chime
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/11/my-voice-raised-in-bell-chime.html
December 2017 – Just Cuz: Mirrors & Moments
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2017/12/just-cuz-mirrors-moments.html
Jaunuary 2018 – Rainingn Cats & Gods
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/01/raining-cats-gods.html
February 2018 – Gung Hay Fat Choy
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/02/gung-hay-fat-choy.html
March 2018 – In the Beginnings
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/03/in-beginnings.html
April 2018 – Entropy’s Rain
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/04/entropys-rain.html
May 2018 – Flight Plans
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/05/flight-plans.html
June 2018 – Ghosts of Thyme
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/06/ghosts-of-thyme.html
July 2018 – They Own Your Ass
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/07/wolf-parts-poems-and-visuals-by-smith.html
August 2018 – Status Report & Spirit Juice
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/08/status-report-spirit-juice.html
September 2018 – Used Ego for Rent
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/09/used-ego-for-rent.html
October 2018 – Sometime Won, Sometimes Lost
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/10/sometimes-won-sometimes-lost.html
November 2018 – The Sun Always Rises
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-sun-always-rises.html
December 2018 – Unreined, Dear
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2018/12/unreined-dear.html
January 2019 – Hope’s Possible
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/01/hopes-possible.html
February 2019 – Be What it Will
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/02/be-what-it-will.html
March 2019 – Becoming One with One
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/03/becoming-one-with-one.html
April 2018 – Fracking the Flux
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/04/fracking-flux.html
May 2018 – Cool and Sly
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/05/cool-and-sly.html
June 2019 – Gotta Try
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/06/gotta-try.html
July 2019 – Doing Time
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/07/doing-time.html
August 2019 – Dark Questionables
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/08/dark-questionables.html
September 2019 – Sisyphus Rocks ‘n Rolls
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/09/sisyphus-rocks-n-rolls.html
October 2019 – Let There Be Light, Momma
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/10/let-there-be-light-momma.html
November 2019 – Bluebird of Happenstance
https://medusaskitchen.blogspot.com/2019/11/bluebird-of-happenstance.html
