Category Archives: Neighborhood

The Disconnect

Posted on June 11, 2023 by sputterpub

There seems to be substantial disconnectbetween the news and my experience.Reports on screen will lead one to expectrude violence amounting to immense.The smash-and-grabs, the muggings, all the gunsnow commonplace, group looting, road rage, morethey say is rife, while panic phrasing … Continue reading →

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Laggard

Posted on May 21, 2023 by sputterpub

Regardless of the local temperature,no matter what the calendar declares,I’ve learned we’re fully into Spring, for sure,when this tree buds to leaf. Its twiggy hairsdon’t feather while each other tree preparesto start to eat the sunshine, air, and dirt.On College … Continue reading →

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Roadside Rhododendra

Posted on May 17, 2023 by sputterpub

Asleep all Winter,they Spring to beauty, and beesbrew toxic honey.

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Morning Sights While Walking

Posted on May 5, 2023 by sputterpub

The first remarkable: an ailing mouse,mid-sidewalk, all a-twitch, a grounding sight;then doors with labels at the firehouse,read Medic, Truck, and Engine, left to right;and third I saw the shoes, 6 pair, uprightamid the weeds adjacent to the street.Such were the … Continue reading →

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Police Action

Posted on April 22, 2023 by sputterpub

Returning from the city, I detrainin downtown Berkeley, Wednesday, 8 at night.Emerging, no one waiting can explainwhy half of Shattuck’s blocked, and every lightwe see is from patrol cars angled rightand left across from us. There’s nothing dreador obvious. I … Continue reading →

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Deception

Posted on April 21, 2023 by sputterpub

I comprehend our planet’s sick, but hereand now appearances are all benign.The gardens bloom, the sky is blue and clear,the drivers and pedestrians alignin local courtesy. It’s hard to fearcatastrophe when every view is fine.Shipped fruit and radiation rot within … Continue reading →

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Paschal Plants

Posted on April 10, 2023 by sputterpub

I note each year how Easter coincideswith Passover, for both are lunar-based.They’re paschal holidays without dividesbetween solemnity and joy, embracedwith feasts of food and tables flower-graced.I gather irises and lilies nowin photographs – with stalks my walks are faced –receiving … Continue reading →

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More On Bin Morons

Posted on April 4, 2023 by sputterpub

It didn’t work. No matter how we ask,the only one reliable is I.Relocating the bins is no big task –just once a week – but neighbors don’t comply.They fill the bins but seldom cart them out.“I’ll help if I’m around,” … Continue reading →

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Swamping

Posted on March 17, 2023 by sputterpub

Continuing to disagree with whatthey choose to do in landscaping out front(I neither view nor use that garden, butI wish they had more taste), their latest stuntincludes more agapanthus, to be blunt,than any drought-resistant quadrant needs.And even so, they puddled … Continue reading →

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A Sunday in February

Posted on February 21, 2023 by sputterpub

Determined as I was to stay inside,I lasted seven hours. Then the suninvited me to walk – not far or wideand nothing even hinting at a run.Suggestion of the coming vernal tidebeguiled me to witness everyoneon sidewalks in my budding … Continue reading →

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