Coping with Happiness OR Yeah, sometimes I write poems

There are some days where you can feel the turn of the earth and know exactly where you are in time. The still fullness of life suddenly all around you. Now. Just a moment ago the leaves were small, the stalks short, the flowers buds, everything only promise and then – out of nowhere –Continue reading “Coping with Happiness OR Yeah, sometimes I write poems”

This Machine Kills Fascists

I lost my uterus in the war against the oppressors. Thanks uterus, our fallen comrade, your memory will live on in the actions of these humans that you grew. The righteous labor of gestating them to term, plus the endometriosis ablating and the de-cancer cervix hole-punching, it was too much for you. By the end,Continue reading “This Machine Kills Fascists”

2021 Growing Season: urban farming by the numbers

It turns out that the lofty goals of building a 500 square foot chicken enclosure, 250 square feet of raised beds, a 20 foot long by 2.5 foot tall rock retaining wall, while also roto-tilling the better part of 2,000 square feet of sod into mulched perennial beds [which amounted to about 14 cubic yardsContinue reading “2021 Growing Season: urban farming by the numbers”