Author: ps pirro

• Beautiful Terrible World

  I’ve put together a collection of poems in a little paperback that’s now available on Amazon. Take a look. Kindle and other ebook options are…

• February

  It would have been kinder if you had died in mid-summer, when the Earth is warm and soft, and the rains have subsided and the…

• The Myth of Progress

  I guess it’s time to make my way, at last, through Moby Dick. Melville’s description of Ahab is a description of the bankers, corporate boards,…

• Waiting for the Chemical Plume

  Things move slowly in the middle of this wide land, the time measured by the inch in fields of gmo corn, things move slowly, the…

• It’s a Big Internet

  In terms of journalism, of expression, of voice, of fine reporting and superb writing, of a range of news, thoughts, views, perspectives, and opinions about…

• Love Like Water

  Perhaps it is too much to ask of love that it surround us always, that it permeate our days and leave its watermark on all we…

• A Useful Skill in a Tangible Situation

  “Giulietta, you don’t have enough money to eat tonight,” Glen said, bringing her down to Earth. Then he asked her a question that has since…

• Poems Like Butter (& Honey)

  I suppose it’s on those mornings when I don’t want to write a poem that I most need to write one. To make my way…

• You Can Keep Your Bunkers

  Wilderness-therapy guide, survival school teacher, and naturalist educator Jeriah Bowser on post-apocalyptic bravado and the survivalist meme: I would much rather live my last days…

• Nor for Children or Other Living Things

  Newsflash: Capitalism is not good for women. Capitalism cannot measure or value non-monetized, more human and relational sources of wealth. Were it to attempt to…