Daigensui, a deity of Japan

wage peace each moment
without ever ceasing
until victory

The Sorrow of Milk

from her mother's breast
she suckled her fears, tears
memories of pain

Catbird 55

Homage to "The Sorrow of Milk" (2009) a film that
chronicles the violation of women in Peru's Quechua-speaking
areas by Sendero Luminoso, paramiltaries, state police, and the Peruvian Army
from 1980-1992

soft winds

only soft winds blow
across an Earth in pain
quakes, mudslides, bombings

Tea and Entropy

yesterday's hot tea
will not warm us today
damn entropy!

Hoop dreams from the heartland

Northern Iowa's
sweet-shooting Farohkmanesh
ends Kansas' hoop dreams



Ali Farohkmanesh plays guard for the University of Northern Iowa. His three
point goal in the final 35 seconds of the game sends overall first seed Kansas
home to Lawrence.

Ali Farohkmaneh, son of an American mom an Iranian dad was born in raised in
America's middle earth, Iowa.

garden of forking paths

with each step I take
I come closer to a fork
what path to take?

Volcano god

Volcano god
four sufferin' bastards later
lava flow and drums