Category: Mexico
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Smith & Lady travels more or less Aug 2006 – Mar 2009
Smith & Lady travels more or less Aug 2006 – Mar 2009 We first left with 70 pounds of backpack each — returned with 35 pounds each . . . quickly learned you REALLY have to want something in order to carry it on your back. >>>>> to chiplis (1 mile) >>>>> to chicago — […]
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soothes present future past
Status Report 23 A gift of grass soothes present future past undarkens glass. – Smith, 6.25.2015 2007-9 Oaxacan grass, $7 an ounce Oaxaca, Mexico
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Up Coffee Mountain, Mexico
Tanetze, Mexico – walking hour down mountain to pick coffee Up Coffee Mountain, Mexico Up the mountain a mile to Oaxaca, nestle in toke and sun and sky. One mile higher for Tanetze to pick coffee trees entwined with vine. Rise before sun to big pot of brew, chase ache and creak of cold and […]
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Smith & Lady Poems March 2015 – Lady’s #25
Falling asleep on the bus / nodding off to cumbia beat
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Smith & Lady Poems March 2015 – Lady’s #17
The baby bighorn bounds in sundance / laughing with the kapok tree
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Black History Month Poems #22
Quetzalcoatl intercedes / from Earth to Venus, halmark of Nahua
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what would Jack do?
detail Smith sculpture – foto Smith What would Jack do? Reading Jack Keroauc’s truth-disguised-as-fiction “Tristessa” (1960) which I hadn’t known about until I bought it used from Guide to Kulchur for $5. Kerouac was my main driver of yearning for adventure and travel ever since my 17 yr-old self read “On the Road” in 1963 […]
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4:20, 4/20, 4/21 — poetry & pot
Oaxacan Gold, $30 per 1/4 pound, Mexico 2007-2009 – foto Smith Lady & I will be part of tomorrow’s 55 poet 11 venue 4 hour Tremont Poetry Crawl. Along with poets Shelley Chernin, host Cavana Faithwalker and the rarely seen Jim Lang, Lady and I will be reading for 10 minutes each at the Doubting […]
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Thanksgiving as a time of progress
At Thanksgiving I think about the abundance that will be on the table, interacting with family members and the bustle of preparation…
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President Obama, Jill Stein, “Free” Trade & Peace
Tomorrow starts the 14th round of negotiations between nine countries for the tentative Trans-Pacific Partnership, yet another huge would-be free trade agreement but unlike NAFTA, barely in the news. Meanwhile I’m wrangling with who to vote for for U.S. President…