lost & found in flyover country

mostly poems. published weekly.

  • History Is Not Inanimate

    This past Wednesday a Tennessee legislator stood up in the Tennessee chambers and stated that the Civil War has not ended. That it… More.

  • October

    The maple trees along my street hold on to green leaves that ought to be red by now and yellow like the sun… More.

  • Indiana: It’s Not That Bad!

    I read Alan Lightman’s Probable Impossibilities and sat for a while with the notion of an indifferent universe. I decided I was pretty… More.

  • I’d Rather Not Be So Complicit

    If you hate the system, and you reject what it represents, and you are against the hierarchies and societal organization it perpetuates, and… More.

  • It’s the Intermediaries

    Jon Michael Greer writes about what he calls the metastatic growth of intermediation, a phrase that furrowed my brow for a bit until… More.

  • The Fate of Peasants

    At what point will we call the folks fleeing the drought-stricken west and southwest “climate refugees”? And are they really going to Duluth,… More.

  • The Last Ivory-Bill

    Over mugs of coffee at my coffeehouse some 20 years ago, my friend Ricky said, apropos of nothing, “I’ve seen an ivory-billed woodpecker.”… More.

  • Activated

    This weekend is the Women’s March, happening in Washington, D.C., and in cities around the world, a reprise of the 2017 March that… More.

  • September Links

    I’m trying something new here, devoting the last Sunday post of the month to the sharing of a handful of links that piqued… More.

  • Slack 2.0

    We slipped into autumn overnight. This afternoon’s high temperature was 15 degrees lower than yesterday, and the rain is no longer warm. The… More.