Gay Head Cliffs, Martha's Vineyard, July 1995

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Picture for my profile

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The tragedy of being in the room when Shyanne decides to play Dress Up...

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Toxic Gumbo

I see the pain on their face
The water all over the place
It is terrible to see
I ache inside of me

Far north from their plight
I hope they all can take flight
To escape the pain they feel
And know our prayers for them are real

We know You can touch their lives
To make sense of their devastation and loss
So watch over them all we pray
And hold them close to You each day

Dear Lord, hear this plea
That they can be free
Of the loss they know so well
In that toxic gumbo of hell

September 1, 2005 8:27

Toxic Gumbo

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/09/toxic-gumbo.html

Hurricane Katrina

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/extremeevents/specialreports/Hurricane-Katrina.pdf

http://www.hurricanekatrina.com/

http://www.nola.com/katrina/

http://nymag.com/nymetro/news/features/14301/

and flooding in New Orleans’

9^th ward

and the rest of the Gulf region

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Fuzzy Swears

Some have heard of “fuzzy logic”,
that “powerful problem-solving methodology (blah, blah, blah) …”
(no, not just what Shanequa or Erica uses on me,
though they do make me go huh)?)),
and I just saw a set of fuzzy dice driving down 101 Friday night
on the rear view mirror
in a vintage canary yellow 1940’s Chevy Coupe with NH plates
all buffed and polished for the tourists

But what about the everyday villains, the subtle stalkers,
The fuzzy swear, curse, cuss
Foul language in spun candy
Words to spit with less spin, less bite
A bit of fancy

“Fudge Ripple Ice Cream”, “Oh Milk Bones!”
“Prune Whip” (ooooh that is a good juicy one)
Where harsher terms of art
May struggle, balk, jostle
to roll off the tongue
Clipped by place, norms, conscience
And others squirt out
to smirk, chuckle, cringe, and fluster…
Fuzzy, cuddly words
Where others would play


August 30, 2005 11:12


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Menacing Insects

A big fat black dirigible of a fly
careening around the office
buzzed me, like a test pilot and the tower.
I could feel its clumsy wake
Before it landed on the wall taunting me to strike back

Carol said, “They’re huge this time of year,
you could almost put a saddle on them,”

The banter reminded me of the June Bug
that flew into the tip of my nose
last week on the walk to my car
Leading me to laugh at the silliest workers’ comp claim in history
When I got whiplash from the impact.

Oh what the paperwork would have been

August 29, 2005 12:25


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Summer 2000 - pictures from the PowerPoint presentation - Poetry Where You Live - part 3

Rippled sunset, Shimmer 1, Shimmer 2, Summer Sun Fisher, Sunday Afternoon, Sunset Over Cove, Swains at Night, Wet Birch Leaf, Wild Blueberry

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Summer 2000 - pictures from the PowerPoint presentation - Poetry Where You Live - part 2

Dew 11 - Dew in the Morning, Feather on Shore, Heron, Heron Eye, June Morning, Lady Slipper, Lilypad, Mates, Morning, Mushroom, Nightfall, Ripe Flowers

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Summer 2000 - pictures from the PowerPoint presentation - Poetry Where You Live - part 1

A Bit of Down, Apricot and Periwinkle, Apricot and Periwinkle 2, Arrowheads, Beaver, Cabin, Canoe, Canoe at Rest, Damselfly, Dew 1 through Dew 10 - Dew in the Morning

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Anniversaries - December 17 & April 23

For Caesar


















and Before Our God




Happy Anniversary my beautiful wife, for the moment, the experience of sharing our love with our church and families, our friends and neighbors. Our marriage is a wonderful blessing and I marvel each day that I am living this dream. 4 months and counting the treasure of it...

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Pictures

In addition to the ones I have recently started associating with individual poems, I am going to start adding some of my better photos to this site.

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Underwater Start

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Prepped and Ready to Go - UNH Women's Hockey vs. Cornell

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Cheer - Women's Basketball vs. Hartford - 2/14/99

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UNH - President's House

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Lounge View - from UNH Library

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