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June 18, 2020
Episode 008: Ecologies of Scale
This week I'm taking it all the way back to my first book of poetry (again), and to my days of riding the Metro in DC with my poem "Ecologies of Scale." I'd like to think most of us are looking at the world around us -- and all of its surfaces -- differently now than we did back then. Stay safe, friends.
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June 11, 2020
Episode 007: Crossing the Aisle
This week it's a poem inspired by a dream I had some years back where President Obama did something unexpected. Don't listen to NPR when you're half-asleep unless you want interesting dreams is what I'm trying to say, I suppose.
I posted the below last week (with an addition at the bottom), and I'm posting it again. We've seen the beginnings of progress, but there's work to do, and the people working need money to make it happen:
After listening to the podcast (or while listening), visit one of ...
June 5, 2020
Episode 006: Curried Lentils
Another week, another poem! This week I poetically describe the preparation of a favorite meal from my bachelor days.
After listening to the podcast (or while listening), visit one of these sites and donate for the cause, because Black Lives Matter and my fellow white people we need to get in the game:
Donate to the Souther Poverty Law Center
Donate to the Equal Justice Initiative
The poems will continue to flow, but so must the Justice.
May 28, 2020
Episode 005: 736 Ducks
This week's poem is only tangentially related to reality, borne of a glint of sunlight on a Summer's day from my imagination.
As always, your feedback is welcome. @Lefthandrob on Twitter.
Left Hand Poetry: My Podcast of Poems
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May 21, 2020
Episode 004: In the Far and Bitter End
This week's have a poem about what happens beyond the horizon.
This is one that I thought would go well set to music.
Left Hand Poetry: My Podcast of Poems
My Books Are For Sale!
May 14, 2020
Episode 003: MothFly
This week's poem was inspired by some little bugs that used to share a very old house where I used to live.
Left Hand Poetry: My Podcast of Poems
My Books Are For Sale!
October 25, 2017
Titan Run Trilogy World Building: The BPOE
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Explorers (BPOE, a/k/a "the Order" or "The Bolt Patrol" (pej.))is an interplanetary organization whose charter mission is to catalog all objects within the influence of Sol's gravity...
December 10, 2016
Another Year, Another Christmas Artisan Market
Books for Sale
October 26, 2016
Breaking Orbit: vol1 of the Titan Run Trilogy
vol1 of the Titan Run TrilogyScience Fiction
October 21, 2016ASIN:B01M8LQ41J
ISBN:1539561364
Sign on for the deadliest job in the Solar System.
200 years in the future humanity is no longer a victim of gravity and circumstance. Earth's children have realized their birthright and colonized the Solar System. Mars, the moons of Jupiter, the asteroids ... but none of those fantastic worlds is as welcoming as Earth. To warm the frozen surface of Mars humans look into their past and e...
