Category Archives: weather

Fort Greene Haiku Times Two

July 7, 2011 – 3:27 pm

The crackle of Rip Van Winkle thunder then a strobe of flash lightning. White rain blurring the buildings. Rumble overhead. Storm passing eastward. The foto is the view from my window. That is not a haiku And neither are the first two Haikus consist of two or more separate images. I think I achieved that. […]

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Bible Belt Tragedies

May 25, 2011 – 7:09 pm

The Bible Belt extends across the southern USA from Virginia to Texas. The white population is dominated by conservative evangelical Protestantism and the black populace of those states are equally enthralled with their churches. Several cities have fought for the title of ‘the Buckle of the Bible Belt’ and this last month the wrath of […]

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Hot as Blazes

May 6, 2011 – 9:52 pm

The flight from JFK to Haneda in Japan lasted 14 hours. The lay-over was two hours and the final hop to Bangkok took 6 hours followed by a 9-minute taxi ride to Sriracha. My butt was deadened from sitting and my coccyx felt like it had taken a paddling from a nun. I arrived on […]

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Long Ass Winter

April 7, 2011 – 11:12 pm

This winter started in October. The temperature dropped below freezing. Snow fell in November. A blizzard shut down New York at the end of December. The rich mayor blamed the the unions for the city’s failure during the crisis. He belong to the wealthy class. I escaped the cold three time. Twice to Thailand. Once […]

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The Reign of Cold

February 4, 2011 – 2:22 pm

A vast number of Americans are beyond skepticism about Global Warming and this winter’s arctic weather has supported their claim that the Man’s actions has no effect of the climate. Their collective memory can’t recapture the drought in Russia or the long heatwave in the Midwest. Time only exists in the present and the present […]

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