Here is a piece of my life, not a horcrux exactly, but a fractal slice, raw (the emphasis on raw) creative material that usually ends up mostly on the cutting room floor of artistic choice. I include it here so that we can annotate it together if you wish.\u00a0 To summarize: we live on a sheep farm. This day we were shearing sheep, detestable job for me because it reveals how much stronger the sheep have gotten and showing me how it is true that we lose muscle mass as we age.\u00a0 Woe is I. Annotate away. I will as well. Ask questions, respond in some way,\u00a0 share links and images and vids.<\/p>\n
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Forgot to set the raccoon trap.
\nIt is under the house.
\nMight be a mama coon.
\nDamned bad news if that is the case.
\nFierce and unflinching as a mama coon with babies.
\nNo thanx.
\na moved fence
\n“it’s fine,” I say but don’t mean.
\nno mail.
\nan imminent storm
\nthe air close enough to bind.
\nram out
\nlooking for his flock–us.
\nshearing three ewes and a very old ram.
\nOld fellow
\nlikes an ear scratch
\nJohnny by name
\nNamed for the character in Arsenic and Old Lace<\/strong>
\nplayed by Peter Lorre–chonnnnnnie.<\/a>
\nSo hot, sweat beading up and blinding us
\nwe keep on
\nthe blades dangerously sharp
\noh there be blood today
\nfrom hot steel and lanolin-heavy wool
\nWatermelon and lemonade and popsicles–shearing fuel
\ntalking to shearing folks about shears
\nsuggestions
\nboxing up a shear head for repair
\nthousands of June bugs
\nrising from the grass like metal green automatons,
\nbumbles on the glowing orange cosmos
\nas if they are on the whole cosmos
\nsome falling asleep as they feed
\na blithering of pollinators
\nonly to be believed if seen
\nand tomatoes beyond eating
\nbut that is ok because the turtles in the garden
\nneed to eat too
\nand cukes growing so fast
\noff of the humidity and UV and 35 years of compost
\nthat one day they are our food
\nand the next they are for the sheep
\nand it all starts with coffee
\non the porch swing
\na form of time machine
\nthat keeps the day at bay
\nfor just a few minutes longer
\njust by oscillating
\nto the amplitude of
\nour wind chimes.
\nAnd a life more full
\nthan the wheelbarrow is
\nwith fleeces
\nredolent
\nstinking with sheep sweat
\nwe take our shearing clothes off
\noutside,
\ntake them to the wash
\nand take ourselves to shower
\nAs my wife has taught our children:
\nit all washes off,
\nperhaps the softest
\nand hardest Truth ever known.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is a piece of my life, not a horcrux exactly, but a fractal slice, raw (the emphasis on raw) creative material that usually ends up mostly on the cutting room floor of artistic choice. I include it here so that we can annotate it together if you wish.\u00a0 To summarize: we live on a
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