The Re-Con
It seems I’ve been waiting for myself to look into those same trees for a truth about that boy and who he’s become
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Knock on wood
The Re-Con
Do pepper spray, batons, bullet-proof vests, shields, armored vehicles, concussion grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets make police feel invincible and superior?
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The words “police force” refer less to manpower than to the all-too-common methods of many officers
Past Perfect
The Peyote Chronicles IV: Agent “Pussyfoot” Johnson comes to Laredo; sworn enemy of booze and peyote takes on merchants Villegas and Wormser, suppliers of sacred plant for Native American religious ceremonies
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Peyote buttons, also called “Japanese Buttons,” cost $2.5o per thousand f.o.b. Los Ojuelos in 1909; they were shipped by Tex-Mex rail from Aguilares to Laredo for distribution to reservations north of the Red River
The Re-Con
Re: Reading – Read. Then, reread; and read what others say about what you’re reading, especially, read what the censors, book-banners, corporations, and governments don’t want you to read
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You will not agree with or like all of it, but at least then you can decide what speaks to you honestly and thoughtfully, or what reeks like a late-night skunk or the cow shit you remember from your youth
Santa Maria Journal
My granddaughters used to forget a toy, a moño, or a precious little sweater at my house; now it’s an eyelash curler
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What they really left behind is what they always have – the wonder that ever I could love anyone as much as I do those two nenas
The Re-Con
Quanta, or the late lights of summer
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Because it takes nearly fifty years for light to travel between Draconis and Earth, he/she/it/they would see us not as we are but as we were in about December 1972
The Re-Con
Baseball: the joys of summer
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The throwing arm smooth and fluid as a whip, the ball slung on a taut line, the cowhide hitting the leather of the glove with a solid thwack
Santa Maria Journal
The most rewarding industry of this land has been a love of the wild world, Milky Way skies, and each other
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Good news at the rain gauge — 4.5 inches
The Re-Con
On Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court, and privacy: the governed do NOT derive their powers from the consent of the government
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The stench of moral superiority drifts from the complaints of Justices Thomas and Roberts
The Re-Con
Ukraine’s Zelensky: “Show your standing, come from your offices, your homes, your schools and universities, come in the name of peace, come with Ukrainian symbols to support Ukraine.”
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Ilya Kaminsky: “We Lived Happily during the War, and when they bombed other people’s houses, we // protested / but not enough, we opposed them but not / enough.”