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Tuesday’s Poet: Two By Ellen Bass
Mockingbird at Ballona. Photo (c) 2010 Richard Beban Birdsong from My Patio Despair so easy. Hope so hard to bear. –Thomas McGrath I’ve never heard this much song,...
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Tuesday’s Poet: A Classic from Janet Burroway
Editor’s Note: In honor of July Fourth, or thereabouts, the marvelous Florida-based poet Janet Burroway offers us this classic from the presidential administration before this one. But rest assured,...
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Tuesday’s Poet: Janet Jennings
Plastic (and other) trash from Ballona Creek turned into art by the artist known as Deb Ris; Earth Day 2010. Photo (c) 2010 Richard Beban The Great Pacific Gyre Plastic bottles and bags are abandoning...
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Tuesday’s Poet: Two By Barbara Crooker
Goose, Del rey Lagoon. Photo (c) 2010 Richard Beban March Walking in the woods, thinking about the coming war, late snow sifting down, I startled some geese in the nearby cornfields; they took off in...
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Tuesday’s Poet: Two By Elizabeth Austen
Green Heron, Leaving. Photo (c) 2010 Richard Beban Where Currents Meet Cattle Point, San Juan Island See? Even at slack water a churn of contradictions. Stay back, instinct instructs. But from here,...
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Tuesday’s Poet: Two by Jim Bennett
Run Aground: Ballona Lagoon. Photo (c) 2010 Richard Beban downstream the rainwater from last nights storm swells the river and brings the blood brown topsoil to mud the water a fisherman watches from...
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Tuesday’s Poet: Two by Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Lichen on an alley wall: Paris, France. Photo (c) 2010 Richard Beban Mianus River Gorge Not just for the fresh air or to walk together on this November morning, our white breath pulsing in the air. And...
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Tuesday’s Poet: Two by Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Sunset, Playa del Rey. Photo (c) 2010 Richard Beban At Ocean’s Edge I watch the ocean move languorously Past the windows of this house Perched on the edge of sand And dune grass. I expect The house to...
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Tuesday’s Poet: Therése Halscheid
Ray, Ballona Lagoon. Photo (c) 2010 Richard Beban A Certain Etiquette, of swamps Do not doubt that something without eyes and ears can know who you are − I have lived long enough to learn of you, your...
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Tuesday’s Poet: Two From Richard Beban
Immature Black Crowned Night Heron @ Ballona Freshwater Marsh. Photo (c) 2010 Richard Beban Great-Grandmother in Her Sunday Plumed Hat In the time before Starlings spread their iridescent shadow...
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