On certainty

Certainty is a rationalization for the need to act.

Poems

I've posted 7 new ones.

A difference

A difference in character does not imply a difference in quality.

A wicked cage (Wetzsteon)

A wicked cage flew
across the long horizon
searching for a bird.

Rachel Wetzsteon, from "Blue Octavio Haiku"

Eulogy

Postmodernism was an ouroboros. And an ouroboros plus time equals…?

Other truths (Rexroth)

Buddha took some Autumn leaves
In his hand and asked
Ananda if these were all
The red leaves there were.
Ananda answered that it
Was Autumn and leaves
Were falling all about them,
More than could ever
Be numbered. So Buddha said,
"I have given you
A handful of truths. Besides
These there are many
Thousands of other truths, more
Than can ever be numbered."

Kenneth Rexroth, from "The City of the Moon"

On youth

Youth is freedom from habit and rot.

Hot chicken strips

Based on this award-winning recipe.

Dinner

Picnic chicken

with sour cream rolls.

New poems

I've posted 7 new poems from July.

Spaghetti with garlic and olive oil

From this recipe.