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I find the map and draw a straight line
May 10, 2007 ( Read more... ) -
Ghazal
May 3, 2007
edited May 18thhere is a rough ghazal from the train ride... a ghazal uses a pattern of repeated rhyme words and end words. (for example, my final rhyming word before the end of all of the second lines is "cast" and the ending phrase of each couplet ends with "windows"). a turn between the lines, no enjambment between couplets, and ( Read more... ) -
trainstory
so there was an interstate in arkansas. an 18 wheeler. and broken windows. a totaled car, and the two of us without so much as a scratch ( Read more... ) -
miles to go before i sleep
i think one day i was looking at a map and i got confused. alaska seemed to float out in the middle of nowhere. so in my search for alaska, it seemed to make geograph sense that i would make a quick stop off in mexico. and on my way from mississippi to mexico (south), i'll stop off to camp and raft and canoe in the ozarks in northern arkansas ( ( Read more... ) -
A Change is Comin'
For the other side of the flyer mentioned in my previous entry (for short-term volunteers at Turkey Creek), I wrote a brief history of Katrina and its impact on the Gulf Coast. This is to counter lack of information in the media about the damage and recovery process in Mississippi, as it sits under the shadow of New Orleans.
Hurricane Katrina and ( Read more... ) -
Let a People Loving Freedom Come to Growth
Many of the volunteers asked at Turkey Creek asked me (as one of the only Mississippian volunteers around) questions about Mississippi's social and political history. I've been working on a flyer to be given out to the short-term volunteers that would help provide this history.. This is side 1. (Revised on 4/11)
Orientation to Gulfport, ( Read more... ) -
If it weren't for the alligators..
Today a conservation crew was working on a trail a few miles down the creek. So my friend and I threw a canoe in and decided to paddle down to where they were working ( Read more... ) -
This is for the Streets
New Orleans has been one of the best, and most intense weeks--or rather, 10 days,--of my life. I can't remember ever feeling so inspired as I have here, or loving so many people so much at one time ( Read more... ) -
i don't think i know how to write folk songs, but today i think i have to write a folk song
Sittin' Here Waiting For Capitalism To Fall ( Read more... ) -
No Justice, No Peace
State Councliperson Stacy Head and her developer friends (and funders) are trying to deny the right of return of New Orleans residents and destroy public housing ( Read more... )