If you live near Milwaukee you have heard of Sierra Guyton, a ten-year-old girl who was shot while playing on a Milwaukee playground in May. She initially survived the shooting but was critically injured and finally died on Sunday.

We live in tough times but this week has been especially horrific I think. Words fail any attempt to . . .

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CDHK prompt today by Managua Gunn, Forest. Unfortunately there won't be any forest bathing for me today, but I loved the post, and I learned something: there are actual concrete scientific studies tending to support what I find to be true: time in the woods does a body good.

I'm with my favorite band on this:

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CDHK prompt, Chiyo-Ni's morning glories.

Kristjaan offers a few different haiku on this "morning glories"theme. I loved this one (from Chiyo-Ni):

     morning glory -
     the truth is
     the flower hates people

That just cracks me up. In addition . . .

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I enjoy found poetry. Writing and reading it. As a matter of fact my first (and, thus far, only) poetry publication was found poetry in the final edition of Verse Wisconsin, online here.

I used to have a feature on my old blog called "found poetry Friday ." And heck, it's Friday, and here I am writing about a found . . .

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One of my favorite blogs is Beauty Will Save the World. The poems there are mostly in French and with very vivid imagery, sometimes surreal. This translation is of a recent one by the Belgian poet Achille Chaveé. First the translation, then the original.

A Simple Story

Now I’m a big wounded animal
in the jungle of time
. . .

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My first post on my new blogging home. How perfect that it's a response to one of the prompts from the Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. Responding to CDHK prompts was one of my favorite activities at my old blog and CDHK is one of the reasons I have decided to keep having a blog at all.

It's also fitting that the prompt is this . . .

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