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Jim Goodman: The Real Cowboys

It strikes me that many of the problems we run into on a day-to-day basis are caused by people doing a job for which they are not fully qualified. We have all run across the bad restaurant meal: a cook who wasn’t so good; an owner who didn’t get fresh ingredients; a wait person who [...]

David Walbert’s Backyard

David Walbert’s Backyard: The Life (and Death) Cycle
In June a black swallowtail butterfly laid a single egg in the window box of parsley on our front porch. Several days later an almost microscopic caterpillar emerged and did what caterpillars famously do. When it left its patch of parsley to become a chrysalis, we couldn’t find [...]

Judith Skillman: The Pleiades, Another Ice Age, Blue Agate, Woods Shock, Five Orders of Vein on a Leaf

Judith Skillman: Five Poems

The Pleiades
You would be the flock of doves
that came close to no man
but hovered forever
near the horizon,
close to red eye of the bull.
It would be you who knew best
how to shun Orion—
warrior with the stunning belt of nebula.
You ushered in the sailing season
while the solstice moon floated
into that corner
of sky still reserved [...]