Gracile Australopithecus: November 1974 Offered in atonement these few small bones meant nothing but salvation: a kind of anthropological grace held in a trembling hand. Mired in a bed of river dust pillowed between rocks and sheets of clay ancestral arthropods led us on. Before the fire we danced and drank and repeated the music each rote word a triumph in our mind each note ingrained. Under the brilliant carpet of heaven deep in the musk of canvas sweat and kerosene we leaped with the flame our shadows racing home our footprints close behind.

Bitten off More Small tin open like a fist is misleading. On the inside not a hair- bone bristles. Modern Ecology One day the housecats woke up enormous. Don’t know irony from goldfish said a large voice small-ly. The Melt The perfect union of lunch and sea, hot cheese stringing everything together. And the Cow will lie down with the Tuna Fish. Hello brother– one large stomach to another. Ballad of the Tuna from Snowy River It did not come from Snowy River or any river. No voice runs deep enough to sing this. Meanwhile in the Rowboat A silver…

Dear Diary, What a day. Things are crazy at work. I have so much to do. It seems that Al’s high blood pressure, his decades of eating poorly, not exercising, being stressed out, and smoking like a chimney, is soon going to catch up with him. The fact that both his mom and his dad died prematurely due to massive myocardial infarctions, not to mention that Al has diabetes and the metabolic syndrome, only make matters worse. He has ALL the major risk factors for atherosclerotic disease. I spent the last few days just floating around in Al’s blood, surveying…

A retelling of Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area School District,with apologies to Ernest L. Thayer The outlook wasn’t brilliant ‘neath that Pennsylvania sky: The courts stood N to zip before the new case here to try. Creationism in the schools had died a legal death, And now as Rothschild rose, Gishville IDers held their breath. The Pandas text was soon invoked in early draft. The I- D faithful clung to dogma calling evolution lie. They thought, “If only Behe could shore up this house of sand — We’d get it in the classroom yet, with Behe on the stand.” But Gillen…

Similar visually to the mandala images, these are cups of coffee vibrating at (top) and near (bottom) a normal mode frequency – coffee a la mode. The resonance phenomenon shown in these coffee cup images is similar to Cymatics and Chladni patterns on a circular plate. Although the lines in Chaladni figures are nodes, the bright areas in the coffee images are anti-nodes. (The coffee cups are vibrating at approximately 20Hz). These coffee images were created for a photo competition.

I We sit, in love and gazing at the stars That fill the violet evening sky with sparks. What flies up there, besides our thoughts, or larks That sing life’s glory or its scars? Is there a being on a quest from Mars, And launching out in meteoric arcs? What answers would he seek when he embarks Across the void between his world and ours? We love each other, sitting two as one, And mostly, life is full with soothing sun, You hold me as we face the starry sky, To contemplate what comes and goes; and why. But sometimes,…