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@wentale @dogtrax Perhaps this is a #largestories hidden within the #smallstories ?

Two rams sit in peace separated by 10 gauge cattle panels. I can see the dents in them from earlier this spring where they butted heads through the fence. Something white hot and stupid has faded from their eyes in the heat of summer, but not forever. No. A smell will return to the air in the lengthening coolity of October nights. They will sniff that air with an upturned lip, turn toward each other, and ram and ram and ram and ram and woe be it to anyone who gets between them. #smallstories

@MicroSFF The agenda here is heartening: every time someone says there is no hope, balance it out with something hopeful. And the doing-over-saying is so crucial.

@wentale The LMS way--submit and fergit. Such ugliness to face for you: anticlimax, odd, forced, nearly-fake. Is this the online threshold our students cross constantly?

Our water comes from a well in a very clean watershed. We have never been able to afford automatic waterers in the field for our sheep so we bring water to them in buckets every day. There are good and bad parts of this job. The best one is that after filling 50 gallons of buckets the water is cold like it came from a cave. I thrust my arm into the last bucket. So cold. A healing cold. This water is a balm. Our sheep suck it down like there will be no more of it....ever. #smallstories

I wake up in dread:
All of barbaric me yawps,
"It is time to shear!"

https://youtu.be/jJBkU1F6f6c

#themadsheepfarmer #smallpoems #haiku

@dogtrax

The bus has a mind
that thinks like eternity.
It doesn't need speed.

#haiku #smallpoems #smallpoemsresponse

Mark Cornelius & Juan Duan https://www.physicalclimaterisk.com/mark-cornelius-and-juan-duan
Easily the most succinct presentation yet on climate change written by some wildly understated insurance folk from The Bank of England. Radicals to a one.

(26) Smooth Criminal M.Jackson à l'orgue de barbarie - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnb7EqfykF4 Holy Handgrenade of Antioch just listen and marvel out the labor of love that this means. #clmooc

Love the new features especially the one that connects instances to twitter friends: https://medium.com/tootsuite/if-you-could-edit-tweets-e9d8cee5e69b But wait, there's more. Check out the post above. Very cool.

@dogtrax Just started listening this morning--laughing out loud about one of the compensations of a good middle-age: a guest room.

@theartguy Power gets a bad rap, but I am glad to see you get it--children need it like water and air and food. Love the image of you, hands up.

@sikkdays Thanks for the link.

@dogtrax

Grab.
Hold the water.
Sitting.
Heavy in the air.

#smallpoems responses

@dogtrax homo wildebeasticus

@dogtrax #smallpoems response

Some Days

The rhythm
jamming,
thumping,
biting
from intro
to finale
to D.C. al fine.
Cycling through,
circling around,
spirits rising,
spirits falling,
breathing hard,
our feet impetuoso,
our hearts forzando,
some days
inescapably within joy

Hard to Tame

I read this phrase in a biography
of Whitman, "Walt was as hard
to tameas Thoreau."Those words
are to die for, to live up to. I want to be just as obvious, unfancy and full of gumption. I want to be as hard to tame as Walt and Henry, I want to live for nothing more than to make poems and economy.

#smallstories