one more day

painted turtle blues (tanka)

i did my good deed—
rescued a painted turtle
out of the roadway

i meddled with nature’s way—
terrapin lives one more day

What I’m Reading:

“New German research data makes clear that cycling doesn’t just clear the air, it improves the society; if you bike, you start finding yourself more oriented to ‘the common good’”

— Harald Shuster, Jolanda van der Noll & Anette Rahmann via Bill McKibben / “Orientation towards the common good in cities: The role of individual urban mobility behavior” / Journal of Environmental Psychology

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About istsfor manity

i'm a truncated word-person looking for an assemblage of extracted teeth in a tent full of mosquitoes (and currently writing a novel without writing a novel word) and pulling nothing but the difficult out of the top hat while the bunny munches grass in the hallway. you might say: i’m thee asynchronous voice over in search of a film....
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