Indiana

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Cool Review

While the rest of the spinning world is broiling on a spit over an open fire, Ryan Sanford Smith has posted a beautifully written review of The Afterlife over on WordPress.    Check it out.  It's cool.  And you don't want to go outside.  http://wwbi.wordpress.com/2012/07/06/charmi-keranens-the-afterlife-is-a-dry-county/

In Dragon Years

It's hot.  100 degrees with a heat index of 112. This katydid (formerly known as a praying mantis,still missing its hind leg) has been hanging out on top of the lily pads in my rain barrel.  It's doing okay.  Unfortunately, the koi haven't.  We have lost five today.   This Dragon Summer (my year!) has been brutal on the wildlife, the flowers, the trees.  In a few weeks I'll be four in Dragon Years.  I started running, maybe trying to turn back the decades to Dragon Year 2, or even 1.  Who runs in this weather?!  Crazy dragons, I guess.  They say that Dragon Years are lucky.   I'm beginning to wonder.  The last horrible heat spell, 1988, Tom's birth year, was a Dragon Year, too.

At Three Turtle Pond

Mr. Green Frog vacates the area.

Listening to Buck Owens...

Dropped in for coffee, didn't even call!

Taking Turns

When R says
               I did nothing
-------------to Pat

It doesn’t mean
nothing was done

I say
------------Come hold
------------the family language

Want
Hunt

I can’t find you

It’s your turn

Smith Petroleum Co.

Sa Lun Gul

(Grand Rapids, 2012)

I want to write
Poems you can dance to.

Or to fall asleep while
Making love to a man
With slow hands and dream
Of rip-tides and water.

Then again, forget
The dancing.

A driving beat will do.
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Of Late

I have been elsewhere, of late, working, shape shifting, and doing various other nefarious things, such as living. It all takes time. And 5 hour energy drinks. And a good fitting bra. I hope to be lazier and shapelier and writier soon, but we'll see what happens. Life is distracting. The poppies are in full bloom.

The Creator

(aka The F'ing Genius)

A. Well, obviously, being a talented person, as I am, of course I take note of what other people are doing, but nevertheless my ideas are, you know -- take -- definitely are paramount to the final product that comes to fruitions, always.