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Tokyo Diary – Tsujiki Fish Market

Tokyo Diary – Tsujiki Fish Market

Tsukiji Market is the biggest fish market in Tokyo.  It is aisle after aisle of all things writhing and aquatic and edible.  It is massive with ...
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The Assassination of Crazy Horse

The Assassination of Crazy Horse

‘This is good.  He sought death  and now he has found it.” —   Touch The Clouds, Crazy Horse’s cousin, and witness to his death. “No shot was fir...
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The Yellow Day

The Yellow Day

There is a  sad, lovely song by the great James McMurtry called Ruby and Carlos on his Just Us Kids CD.  I always think of McMurtry’s music when...
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The Thunder Being

The Thunder Being

“Crazy Horse’s vision first took him to the South, where in Lakota spirituality one goes upon death. He was brought back and was taken to the West...
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Poem For Crazy Horse

Poem For Crazy Horse

This is a new piece.  In reading about the natural history of owls, I came across any number of Native American stories.  The most compelling st...
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Little King

Little King

Years ago there was a rugged little bastard  named Roberto Duran, one of the greatest lightweight fighters in the history of boxing.  He was a m...
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The Radio Ghost

The Radio Ghost

If you drive rural roads, particularly the ones in the Midwest where the landscape is flat, you often see owls in radio towers at dusk or dawn.  ...
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Black Mesa Owl

Black Mesa Owl

After reading a bunch of Hopi prophecies it is easy to get freaked out.  They are farmers and artists and made some of the most beautiful potter...
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The Jersey Owl

The Jersey Owl

The more I read about owls the more I realize how paranoid white people have always been.  In European and English cultures, owls are almost alw...
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The Strange Angel

The Strange Angel

Owls are odd birds and there are  a zillion species of them.  In every culture, they are fraught with  symbolism.  It is said the the Caesars, A...
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The Queen of Pink Acid

The Queen of Pink Acid

When I was a senior in high school, my girlfriend, Denise, got her hands on a shit-ton of pink mescaline. She was a pretty girl with huge brown ...
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The Emperor’s Bird

The Emperor’s Bird

You listen for trainsand hope for birds. . . I’ve been watching Kurosawa movies again just to be awed.  Ran, with its beautiful, bow and arrow b...
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