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One Today, Richard Blanco: Inauguration poem

January 22, 2013

One sun rose on us today, kindled over our shores, peeking over the Smokies, greeting the faces of the Great Lakes, spreading a simple truth across the Great Plains, then charging across the Rockies. One light, waking up rooftops, under each one, a story told by our silent gestures moving behind windows. My face, your … Continue reading One Today, Richard Blanco: Inauguration poem

January 21, 2013

"We cannot mistake absolutism for principle …or substitute name calling for reasoned debate." — Katrina vandenHeuvel (@KatrinaNation) January 21, 2013

January 20, 2013

Becoming a Haiku Poet – Graceguts.

P’s R of Boulder, again.

January 15, 2013

So here I am again in the wonderful People’s Republic of Boulder (do they still call it that?) (Nobody tells me anything.) It is, as you might imagine, freezing. The temperatures these past days when we have been here are in what I like to term the basement of the world. When I last asked … Continue reading P’s R of Boulder, again.