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
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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.”
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Abbrevns: the shorthand of census takers and archivists before typewriters; farewell to Joan Didion, the honest, incisive “try harder” patron saint of writers
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Seditionist arrestees face aftermath of their compulsions; the 725 are but a fraction of the 2,000-plus rioters
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After the verdicts
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If we pay attention, we’ll find a glimmer slipping through the limbs, a bit of light that might cause us to see the truth beyond our own nose and with a clarity and steadfastness not afforded by blind belief or ignorance or excuses. Maybe. Just maybe it casts a trace of truth against the written house.
Past Perfect
Cactus commerce in Laredo ended after Anna B. Nickels; then came Margret Sackville Jones and her collection of 3000 species behind the Cactus Gardens Café
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Native Americans have long considered the Bordas Escarpment east of Laredo holy ground for harvesting sacramental peyote
Santa Maria Journal
Oh, but to have one more ranch cafecito with el primo Alfonso
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As it was in Laredo when we were children, Alfonso was our neighbor on the ranchland
The Re-Con
An Open Poem to Governor Abbott and Republican Legislators
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“Oh, you tiny Texas tyrants
in your frail white hide and drawl,
a-feared of women and all migrants
so you weaponize the law.”
The Re-Con
Whether it’s weather or not: we must make dramatic changes now to slow and stop global warming
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Outside your front door climactic changes are altering life while too many people still stand by and watch