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Spring Musings

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Mark Matzeder

That Stumpy is kind of a bad-ass. Stumpy is the name I call one of the neighborhood squirrels. My neighborhood is in the Olde Town section of Blue Springs, Missouri, that spreads mostly westward from where late 19th Century residents … Continue reading →

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Prim’s Proper

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Mark Matzeder

I said, “The Hope of youth, fictitious truth, lays covered in a shroud.” –Larry Norman’s Nightmare #71 Any attempt describing the Kansas City Poetry Scene will of necessity be incomplete. Doubtless hundreds of thousands of Kansas Citians trudge through their … Continue reading →

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Chasing Zephyr

Posted on October 5, 2015 by Mark Matzeder

Some parents use television sets as a babysitter. My mother used books. Some stolen seconds between changing the baby’s diaper and washing the laundry and scrubbing the toilet and fixing the dinner and sweeping the floors, folding clothes, and mopping, … Continue reading →

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Standing in the Shower, Thinking

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Mark Matzeder

It has been observed that the United States and the United Kingdom are two countries separated by a common language. Who it was first so observed is lost in the muddle of attribution. Some cite the great orator Winston Churchill. … Continue reading →

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Persephone’s Homecoming

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Mark Matzeder

      The Vernal Equinox occurred at a few minutes before noon, my time, yesterday.       Astronomically, the equinox is that point in earth’s orbit around the Sun when the equatorial plane passes the center of the Sun. At that point, … Continue reading →

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Learning to Fly

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Mark Matzeder

  All your life/You were only waiting for this moment to arrive   A lone Agelaius phoeniceus lurked on a scraggly limb overlooking a field of withered yellow grass. His feathery coat shimmered ebony. He could have been a ninja. … Continue reading →

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Industrial Landscapes

Posted on January 31, 2013 by Mark Matzeder

 After a Fashion  Is a beaver’s dam natural? Is an eagle’s aerie artificial? Is a hornet’s nest synthetic? Usually we consider human construction projects as artificial and unnatural. My experience suggests we don’t ascribe the same values to structures other … Continue reading →

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What We’ve Lost

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Mark Matzeder

I watch my dog out the back window. It is a cool day, temperatures in the low 50’s this morning. Perfect weather for a Husky mix, I gather, from Leon’s insistence on being outside. I have a chain staked into … Continue reading →

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