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This is where you will find my unpublished poems and fiction, reviews of works by other authors, and guest posts.
Some Personal Thoughts On Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet
“Cruelty to animals will get you punished, but cruelty to humans will get you promoted.” (as one of Brit's friends said to her at the immigrant detention center where she worked in Ali Smith's SPRING) In a previous blog I explored Ali Smith’s Autumn, the first of...
Guest Post: Origami Place by Hayden Jones
Origami Placeby Hayden Jones In the origami place,origami pelicans soar through the sky.In the origami place,stars shine bright.In the origami place,origami boats sail through the ocean.In the origami place,you can stop and smell the origami tulips.In the origami...
Book Review: Autumn by Ali Smith
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] We are living in a culture that insists on lying as its delivery of how we are living,” she said then. “It insists on telling us information about which we are left wondering whether it is true or not … Fiction and...
Poem By Think in the Morning: Micpapalotl
In remembrance of Francisco Toledo [REVISED] Micpapalotl (The Black Witch Moth) In Oaxaca the rains end lateIn the Fall and thoughts turnTo life and death and fateAnd to what we might learn About death from the deadWhen they come to visitAs it is often saidThey do. ...
Poem by Think in The Morning: There Ain’t Any Tree
There Ain’t Any Tree There ain’t any treeGreen with leavesOr hung with blossomsThat remembers the snow as it fell Upon my father’s faceOr the grass outside the hospitalWhere my sister and brother died.That grass, so full of itself. That grassWaving in the...
Guest Post: There Was A Time – by Merlin Tinker (Barry Weiss)
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Most of us in Mendocino know Merlin Tinker (Barry Weiss). At Think in the Morning we were delighted to hear from Barry and to discover that he had a number of scribbles as he calls them depicting some of his...
Guest Post: Memories of Symbolic Theater 1985-86 – Mitchell Zucker
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Think in the Morning publishes Guest Posts from time to time. Our friend Mitchell sent this recently which we offer as presented. David, I thought this piece might interest your blog readers because so many...
The Tree by John Fowles
[Click on BLUE links for sources and further information] For Arbor Day I suggest reading The Tree by John Fowles. I was introduced to John Fowles by way of The Collector assigned by my college freshman English teacher (Mr. Wexler) many (too many) years ago....
Guest Post: Groucho and Harpo Save Planet Earth – Mitchell Zucker
Our friend Mitchell Zucker is filling in while our Blogger in Chief is on a temporary sabbatical. This piece was created 9 years ago, It was read in a dramatic reading in 2010 at Saranam, Jeannie Doe's wonderful dance studio in Mendoicno. It is a short black...
Guest Post: My Problem With Republicans – Gil Gevins
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] While TITM is on leave, we are posting this guest post from our friend in Puerto Vallarta, Gil Gevins. Gil is a co-owner with his wife Lucy of Lucy's Cu Cu Cabana in Puerto Vallarta, a must visit if you...
Poems – 15
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] This is our 15th page of poems and napkin art. The other page links are listed below. At TITM we believe that poetry is more important than ever given The Way We Live Now. Poetry and art go...
States I Have Visited – by Karson Jones (7 years old)
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] I like to travel. I live in California. So far I have visited nine other states. There are 50 states in the United States of America. Since I live in California, I still have 40 other states to...