(with gratitude to Tim & Charles)


the book was a gift among a gift of books
I'd read them all later maybe if and when
I am desperate to know the names what wind
blows the Mexican Palo Verde, the cactus wren

my footsteps confess no special talent
one sneaker follows the other into a
brilliant make believe I know I know

my karma bankrupt Mother Father Sun and Moon
giddy-up the worst of me that got the better
Hi O Silver and away

The Morning Sun

I've been a mean son of a bitch
and I'm sorry

I got great news at my oncologist's yesterday. There are no cancer tumors in my body! My colon, liver, lungs and all other soft tissue scans show that the tumors are gone! I still have to continue with chemotherapy though. The good results does not mean I am cancer free. On the probability that even one cancer cell is floating around somewhere looking for a home we have to continue treatment. But that is far better than having terminal cancer in my liver, etc.! Good times...

Music, birds, sunshine after the rain, clean air, sitting in the garden, cuppa joe day today.

Easter

Do you hear the morning dove? Tehano xylophone (sweet) pouring through the palm fronds from the Spanish church on the corner from my house? Getting together with family this afternoon. Ham and kids. Yum!

Love

Barbara Henning

Added poet Barbara Henning sound files to Frank's Home today. Barbara moved to Tucson last Spring from New York City via Santa Fe, NM. She's an awesome addition to the local poetry scene here in Tucson. She sits on the board of POG (Poetry Organization) as do I. She teaches online poetry courses including one for Naropa this coming Fall.

I took the liberty of choosing a group of poems from her reading (with her assistance) at Dinnerware Gallery, November 18, 2006 and adding musical snippets to some of her poems. I think I kept the experience tasteful. This is definitely a group of prose poems that gathers steam to a rolling conclusion!

A bowl a day
(for Ben Franklin, fellow printer)

What's going on
going gone