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Dave Bonta

Poet and web publisher from the northern tip of southern Appalachia specializing in erasure poetry, ecopoetry, videopoetry and modern haiku. Books include Ice Mountain: An Elegy; Failed State: Haibun; and Breakdown: Banjo Poems. https://davebonta.com

Untitled Cool and crystal-clear. I watch a small insect zigzag back and forth in a shaft of sunlight. Waxwings whistle in the treetops. Valley sounds are nearly inaudible; the buzzing of a hornet is enough to drown out a distant motor.

Untitled Humid, cool and overcast at sunrise — an orange glow. Two thin deer wander through the meadow at the edge of the woods, lowering their heads for a mouthful of bracken, some grass, a goldenrod tip ...

Untitled Having slept through a dawn storm, I wake to find the power out. A towhee yells at me from a branch of the closest walnut—one song I can hear above the dull roar of the generator up at my mother's house.

Untitled Breezy and warm. A chipmunk races down the driveway, trailed by a great-spangled fritillary. A few small scraps of cloud pass overhead.

Untitled Breezy, cool and humid. Two amorous gray squirrels at the edge of the woods make one branch dance. One of the hundreds of native species of little brown moths flutters in to shelter under the eaves.

One of the errors people make is thinking the markets and traders are ‘stupid’ for swallowing Ravid’s line every week on cue. They’re not stupid. They know he’s full of shit, but everything depends on the line reliably going up and he provides the fig leaf required for things to continue as such.

The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself. “One official would later describe it as a ‘surreal’ experience to be discussing nipples in the White House Situation Room.” Gift link:

Judith Miller (but sadly nobody else) had her career destroyed for witlessly regurgitating lines fed to her by the Bush Administration. 25 years later, Ravid has built an entire career off of it, and when challenged will tell you: “No, don’t you get it? I’m providing a laundry service.”