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  1. Parker Owens

    Dinner Party

    Parker Owens commented on Carlos Hazday's story chapter in Dinner Party

    Why not Percy and Preston? Or, maybe Olaf and Oswald? I think you could raise a gazillion dollars for floating clinics just for the privilege of choosing the twins’ unusual names.
  2. Parker Owens

    Dinner Party

    Parker Owens commented on Carlos Hazday's story chapter in Dinner Party

    Floating clinics! Better than cruise ship casinos, maybe. But then will the states refuse permission for those ships to dock or take on passengers? Fighting back state by state is going to be a long hard slog, but it’s likely to be the only path forward for a long time. For the time being, I’m all for celebrating the twins!
  3. Parker Owens
    What an amazing timeless work
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    A new sonnet might begin: Have pity on the poor, forgotten weed…. That one might be fun to complete. You’re right, of course, that so-called weeds can be more interesting and more resilient than the cultivars in the garden. There are several barely tamed onetime weed specimens in the garden even now - gooseneck and goldenrod among them. They can be both pretty and uncivil. Anyhow, thank you very much for your commentary and for reading!
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    You are surely right about weeds, at least some of them. The forget-me-nots and ajuga take over the lawn every spring. I have a garden full of barely tamed weeds - gooseneck, wild sunflower, goldenrod, globe thistle - which complement and enhance my more timid cultivars. Together, they blend textures and colors and sizes into something harmonious. The garden isn't going to win any awards, but it's peaceful nonetheless. Many thanks for reading, and for your commentary.
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    A nest of vipers would be a good lead-in to another sonnet: A brood of vipers rises on the screen…. I will leave you to fill in the remaining 13 lines. In all seriousness, it seems we have raised too many vipers and too few falcons and mongooses (mongeese?). May we live to see better and more civil days. Thanks very much for reading and for adding your reactions.
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    I hope that all the riot of color in our well loved gardens will drown out the weeds. Many thanks for reading this and for your reactions.
  8. Parker Owens
    Companion plantings mutually spur prosperity in neighbors side by side, as they their own peculiar gifts confer upon the stalk or bloom with whom they bide; and so it is with us sojourners here in finding others rooted in our days that through each season, every passing year, new joys emerge to flower and upraise. So wonder then, that hatred’s bitter seeds find welcome in community’s rich soil to choke all sweeter fruit with noxious wee
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    Arrival

    Parker Owens commented on Carlos Hazday's story chapter in Arrival

    Toddlers in the White House, smacking down a Dark Side reporter, and behind the scenes with our favorite celebrity couple: this kicks off a new phase of their life and work. I’m looking forward to more.
  10. Parker Owens
    And now for something offbeat... Something that's been running through my head all day.
  11. Parker Owens
    That’s so good! It reminds me of a summer evening at dusk with friends, engaged in conversation.
  12. Parker Owens
    A horror writer? I’ve never given that much thought. While it’s possible to paint in darker hues, the attraction to brighter tones remains too strong. However, if these images of wolves and crows and dark suited figures conjure up something scary, then maybe you’re on to something. Thank you for reading these and for your response.
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    You’re most welcome, and I’m very happy you enjoyed my observations at summertide. I suspect that crows are skilled at hurling insults the whole world over. Is there such a thing as a well-mannered crow? It was electrifying to hear the wolves sing into the night, and to be so very close to them. Many thanks for reading these, and for sharing your reactions.
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    I’m immensely grateful for your kind words, and still more so for your invention and sharing of this poetic form. Dark-suited words finally completed the much-scratched-out draft of that poem. Perhaps that phrase was worth the waiting and rewrangling.
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    Let me add my congratulations! It’s wonderful to see!
  16. Parker Owens
    Such rowdy and unmannerly crows they were! I’m happy you could hear them too.
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    Thank you! If these allowed you to share my experience a little, then I can smile.
  18. Parker Owens
    Thank you. I hope you could hear the wolves, and watch the dawn, and listen to the cicadas mourn under the hot sun.
  19. Parker Owens
    One lone wolf sings its long clear solo ringing across the field and forest soon joined in tune by the antiphonal chorus chanting the ancient midsummer psalm beneath brilliant starlight ever shining. ~ Three dark crows call to the setting moon framed in the twisted locust’s branches hurling rude insults at its fading silver light, while robins laud the coming of dawn enough to make the ridge glo
  20. Parker Owens

    Wheelchair Guy

    Parker Owens commented on Carlos Hazday's story chapter in Wheelchair Guy

    I like Brion and have ways to relate yo his story. His comments about people judging his brain by his wheelchair seemed especially apt. So, he gets in on the ground floor as CJ starts his political climb? It made me grin. Thanks for this snapshot.
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    You’re very, very welcome! I’m so happy you read Andy’s journal and followed his path to its end - more than once. You’re very kind to have commented. I have mulled over writing Reed’s story, but it hasn’t jelled. Again, many thanks.
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    My thanks and hugs to you for reading Andy’s story. You are most kind to have taken time to react and comment. I’m glad you thought Andy’s journal was worthwhile. I can only hope that these characters will remain with you as they have with me. Again, many thanks.
  23. Parker Owens
    This is fantastic. I remember hearing an Armonica played at the Corning Museum many years ago. This is a bigger example of the instrument. How much practice and training must go into learning to be proficient on it!
  24. Parker Owens
    I remember using all three sizes displayed here.
  25. Parker Owens
    Well. The first is probably the best thing to do while waiting for AAA. The latter may present hazards if the landing is especially turbulent, though…
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