Pandora’s Box (We Must Put It Back In and Seal It!) … and Don Quixotes (Because We Can Not!!)*

eight to ten billion humans walls, luxurious gated fortresses of castle-like “homes”, bubbles overshoot & disparity agrilogistics/industrial ag fossil energy/materials anthropogenic climate change nuclear arms, (assault) weapons plastic** automobiles prevalence of artificialization, “noise”, stuff, clutter, trash, pollution War   COMPLEXLY, STUBBORNLY OPEN PANDORA’S BOX   prayer most recycling letters to governmental reps hopelessly bought with […]

Useless Desires* (Silly Seriousness … or Serious Silliness)

l’m not blank … Just dark and dank … Least that’s what I “thank.” Maybe there’s some good in the tank? But up until now I “thank” … What has come out so very, very earnestly … seems to have stank.   Into the noisy chaotic dark abyss … which stinks … this day I sank Into the dark […]

a peaceful summer of watermelons, grandma, and story, 1959

It was a summer of pitching hundreds, thousands! of BIG! melons around wilson county sweaty, muscle-soring, tiring work with black folk Bobby Ray Williams and Charlie Brown work- and life-experienced but very playful … and so much fun! we slammed our fists into many of the perfectly-ripe red-meated berries and partook of the delicious aroma, […]

a deep weary ache for a neo-earth. eaarth in an anthropocene of 7.8 billion humans, (a prevalence of wonderful capitalism world-wide), over-shoot and severe disparity

i so want to leave this world not this world but THIS world come on dear let us travel far and reach a world with no guns or nuclear arms a world void of righteous hate void of rampant destruction of homeostatic symbioses one where black lives young black lives poor young black lives and […]

St. Philip’s College Earth Day Webinar 2021

(https://alamo.zoom.us/rec/share/FnRcyDfvrx4HxMo3ir6VIxA_Hd_Jhy9oW72MZQWyQUN2jML2DxADd3qrGPEJ-Sv_.ZwexkNEU1vQBv3JI?startTime=1617375618000)* St. Philip’s College will be taking these materials for “saving the Earth”, tidying them up and making them more succinct, attractive, and digestible … and releasing them via various media vehicles during Earth Day Week, 2021. Biography of Presenter paul bain martin. The highest hopes for keynote webinar presenter, paul bain martin, on Earth Day, […]