from Field Notes:
I long for the Democracy of a pre-Nazi Viennese coffee house.Someday corporate coffee dispensers will be remembered as an early anti-democratic impulse.

from Field Notes:
I long for the Democracy of a pre-Nazi Viennese coffee house.Someday corporate coffee dispensers will be remembered as an early anti-democratic impulse.

2 days in this city & I cannot find myself
though I suspect that’s the point;
but I am beginning to understand
that might be the appeal
especially when there is no self
to find.
– from field notes, 7.18.26
back in the firebox
calliope notes riding the breeze
these mental mooring lines
unknotthe boilers sings its fire song
the paddlewheel rolling us upriver
against the current
towards Towhead Island
to turnaround and return
[from Field Notes]