plain-black v-neck t-shirt folded in the dresser drawer fresh from the laundry perfect in its simplicity it feels like the Tao of my wardrobe I want to wear it first! I say in the morning and throw it over my head I look down and notice it’s covered in white hair from the dog sheContinue reading “Black Shirt/White Hairs”
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Lamby
My parents’ dog Shanti’s favorite toy was a little stuffed animal lamb named Lamby. It had a white wooly back, hoofed legs, little nub ears, and pink face with ‘y’ shaped snout. He’d pick it up with his teeth, growl, and shake it back and forth. If you grabbed the other end of it, ShantiContinue reading “Lamby”
Band of Children Fails Performance of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “Learning to Fly”
In honor of the late Tom Petty, here’s something I wrote for the Monkey Puzzle Press blog back in 2011. At a local summer community festival a band made up entirely of children played the Tom Petty & The Heartrbeakers’ song “Learning to Fly” and did not succeed. The children’s arms and hands were notContinue reading “Band of Children Fails Performance of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “Learning to Fly””
The One-Eyed Canyon Towhee…
came to the backyard bird feeder and was bad-ass came to the feeder and was pitiful I ran to get my binoculars to get the closest possible look must’ve survived a fight I wanted to be it I felt sorry for it, I wanted to give it a new eye, but I wasn’t capable EveryContinue reading “The One-Eyed Canyon Towhee…”
After the Funeral…
…We went back to Grammy’s house where I’d gone almost every summer as a kid. She could not be alive anymore, and I could not be 8 or 6 years old again. That was the deal. My nephews were 8 and 6 years old tho. They went out to the big tree, the one inContinue reading “After the Funeral…”
Identifying Sandpipers
I was at Sawhill Pond just before sundown, and the sandpipers were back. Little brown-gray-white birds with long bills that peck at things in the mud. According to Sibley Birds West there are 17 species referred to as ‘sandpiper’ and 68 shorebirds overall. They have distinct names like ‘spotted,’ ‘solitary,’ ‘semipalmated,’ ‘baird’s,’ ‘western’, and ‘least.’ But theyContinue reading “Identifying Sandpipers”
I Liked The Boulder Flood!
The flooding in Houston this week reminds me of the horror/exhilaration of our big flood back in 2013. This is from Pizzas and Mermaid…
“This Is What It Means to Say Phoenix Arizona Poetry Reading” by Jonathan Montgomery
Originally posted on Boulder Poetry Scene:
Every other place is different than the place you live. Like Phoenix Arizona. There they have those tall pain-spike cactuses that raise their arms up and go ‘yay!’ They have palm trees in their shopping centers that invite you to have a beer on the asphalt like a Corona…
“I Wouldn’t Be Here If It Weren’t for Jack Collom” by Jonathan Montgomery
Originally posted on Boulder Poetry Scene:
Jack Collom passed away on July 2nd, 2017 at the age of 85. Here’s a link to the Daily Camera’s write up on him I wrote the following acrostic for Ellie Swensson’s Turnout Zine this spring while taking Jack Collom’s final Eco Poetics class. ? I Wouldn’t Be Here If It Weren’t…
Conor O’Neill’s Moves Locations… to BOULDER HEAVEN
Starting Saturday April 22nd 2017 Conor O’Neill’s, the Irish pub off 13th and Pearl in downtown Boulder, will no longer be at that location and instead move to BOULDER HEAVEN. I’ve been going to the original location ever since I first moved to the area in 2003. There were several reasons… In the middleContinue reading “Conor O’Neill’s Moves Locations… to BOULDER HEAVEN”
Jonathan Bluebird Montgomery 