Caroline Gerardo

Friday, October 13, 2017

Book Covers I love

Blue book splines

Jean Paul Grenwalt's company Book Arts

http://bookarts.us/AboutUs.html

Canadian BOOK binders

https://www.cbbag.ca/

JOHN PAUL GREENAWALT

Sunday, October 8, 2017

House Of Stone

House of Stone Poem

Arroyo toad snuck in nights.

Amphibian trying for days.

Art in screen porch orchids

at home late scurry freezes

a kit fox back for chickens?

another prowler in stables?

automatic mass weapons?

abandoned house of stones

accept still scorpion hides

all ur envy green is whites

As from tower waterfalls

and fear runs no oceans.

I'm not afraid of bears.

Lord wash all my sins.

Alzheimer memories

all toads in rat traps.

Notes about today's poem
Arroyo toads are endangered but there's a number of them on the ranch.
January's rain conjured their ancient eggs. They were active in spring,
our days are warm but they know it's fall. Nights grow longer, and
evening starts at 6:50 in town but 6:20 here as the mountain blocks the southern
sky. The toads hunt for a place to stay for the winter. In the summer one got caught
in a rat trap, daughter nursed his bum leg. Funny to care for all types of creatures
you will think.These toads are toxic to humans and animals, can cause death by touch.
He healed and released, haven't seen him since August; but a couple
of his girlfriends hop in the greenhouse/ screened porch at night.
Like you I saw the suffering in Vegas, my work organized a thank you
note program for first responders. If interested contact me. Thousands of people,
as Mr. Rogers might say if here, the helpers, saved lives need us to risk picking them up and
healing the poison.
Images are from my last trip to Iceland.
Much love and don't be afraid of the bump in the house.
A madman a terrorist checks into a hotel with a golf bag
of ammo and we mourn his mean acts.
I wont be stopped.
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