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Delight of My Heart

According to WordPress, the tag that people most often click on to reach Wheat, Not Oats, Dear–the tag that calls out to the most people, the tag with the most compelling siren song, the tag tha… more →

Wheat, Not Oats, Dear.

Delight of My Heart

wheatdear wrote 1 week ago: According to WordPress, the tag that people most often click on to reach Wheat, Not Oats, Dear … more →

Tags: Math and Science: General, dr. rock, Large H, Large-Hadron-Collider, Protons, wooooooo

Wa-Wa — 2 comments

wheatdear wrote 2 weeks ago: This weekend, I learned that the oldest individual tree in the world is a 4,841 year-old Great Basin … more →

Tags: Joseph Spece, Math and Science: General, Poetry, fix things, Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, water on the moon, woke in the brume

Remember That One Time? — 1 comment

wheatdear wrote 3 months ago: Remember that one time, when I said that I’d post on Wednesday or Thursday of last week, and t … more →

Tags: Poetry, I do not know, Ada Limon, Electric Jell-O Ghost, Born Yesterday, Bratz, millet, hyde park, cut the right branch

Weddingest

wheatdear wrote 5 months ago: My mother and I were in a Kroger’s grocery store last Thurday morning, buying goods against th … more →

Tags: Brothers and Sisters, my roommate, My Brother's wedding, half-mermaid, Lumberjack of Butchers

No More Disneyworld — 2 comments

wheatdear wrote 11 months ago: Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo … more →

Tags: Poetry, Gerald Stern, NOOOOOOOOO, babies, The Maldives, natch, Mottos, bypass the peppers

Christmas, Or: I Received A Paper Cutter LA LA LA — 2 comments

wheatdear wrote 11 months ago: On Christmas Eve, we turned on “A Christmas Story” in the kitchen, as pecans were being … more →

Tags: Poetry, My Parents, Brothers and Sisters, Nieces and Nephews, Anthony Hecht, New Baby, slobbery, file folders, I have done my best

I'm Am Here — 2 comments

wheatdear wrote 1 year ago: Here I am! It’s been a blurry two weeks-ish. Blurry, busy, brash, be-dwizzled, ballyhooed, bur … more →

Tags: Poetry, my roommate, Jack Gilbert, be-dwizzled, Lindy Hop, Gulf of Mexico, ring-a-ding, two zinc buckets

Pensive, penitential, plural-y

wheatdear wrote 1 year ago: “Plural-y”? I dunno. Business: 1. Get you to The Word Shop Blog:  The blog featuring the … more →

Tags: Poetry, Elizabeth Bishop, High School, Thunderbird, Mountain Cloud People, missing step-ladder, the burning deck

On The Wane, or: Yay! — 1 comment

wheatdear wrote 1 year ago: Saturday afternoon, in the grocery store, I observed a human being more hapless than myself. General … more →

Tags: Poetry, Gerard Manley Hopkins, all hollow, crispcool, peat bog, Clatskanie, The Word Shop, couple-colour

I'm Waiting, I'm Waiting — 4 comments

wheatdear wrote 1 year ago: I just had the opportunity to sit–for moderate chunks of time–in two very different wait … more →

Tags: Poetry, Brothers and Sisters, Lisa Olstein, my roommate, octopus crossed in love, Pierced Nose, tattoo establishment, Zest-o-rini, everything blooms coldly

Home again, home again, jiggity-jig. — 4 comments

wheatdear wrote 1 year ago: The best fireworks display I ever done seen was from the window of an airplane in 2005. I was flying … more →

Tags: Poetry, My Parents, Philip Larkin, Stirring World Events, Ablaze, krakatoa, Ingrid Betancourt, Strzelecki, gentle-sharp

Well! And here we all are! — 7 comments

wheatdear wrote 1 year ago: I’ve struggled a bit, trying and a-trying to decide just how I’m supposed to handle this inaugural e … more →

Tags: Poetry, Bullfights, Elizabeth Bishop, moral owls, pillars of fire


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