My people married theirfirst cousins and passed oncrooked backs and congenitaldeafness - my peoplescraped desert island hills into terraces and pleadedwith the earth - my peoplegathered the rain in cisternshidden beneath their huts. There was neverenough, and povertyonly begets beauty and generosity in the movies. It's only truechildren are fear an…

Spoken word. See text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-first-day-of-spring.html

Friend from Childhood's Last Days Would I recognize you all these years later friend from childhood's last days? From bottomless time playing Atari and banana seat bicycles riding over cracked sidewalks late into summer nights? How have you aged, with a dad-bod belly and a receding hairline? or are you just divorce-worn, living alone except every o…

Spoken word. Text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2023/01/leonardos-first-flight.html

Spoken word. More at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-residents.html

Spoken word. Words here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/unleashed.html

Spoken word. https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/11/when-it-was-not.html

Text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/06/how-it-begins-again.html

Spoken word piece about running out of time. see written piece here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/05/us-who-are-lucky.html

Spoken word piece - some days you can't be. words: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/04/i-am-only-fool.html

A spoken word piece about gluttony, one of the seven deadly sins Written here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/gluttony.html

A spoken word piece about Envy, the worst of the 7 deadly sins written: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/banishment.html

A spoken word piece about the thinness between reality and the mystical More at: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-path-between-worlds.html

Spoken word piece about the damn cat and his morning howling. Text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-cat-is-awake.html

a spoken word piece text at https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/02/office-of-days.html

A spoken word piece about winter. For text, see https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/01/collective-action.html

A spoken word piece about the frustrations of being young and not knowing better. See https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2022/01/youth.html

At the end of a semester, saying goodbye. The class vs. the students. Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/empty-classroom.html

text here: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-game.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/08/45365-driving-to-work.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/08/45365-driving-to-work.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/50365.html

text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/57365-4-in-morning.html

text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/05/16365-heaven-on-earth.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/53365.html

text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2012/09/52365-running-on-old-trails.html

Text: https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2009/01/doing-hustle.html

what the devil wants https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/05/bargaining-with-devil.html

Dancing and being young - so delicate.

the one thing that allows us to see each other as human

A meditation on letting go of desire. https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2021/03/a-meditation-by-tree-upon-noble-truth.html

Friendship is a choice.

Fifty and not dead.

So many perfect days.

Do you see me looking at you looking at me?

Because what else would you call your giraffe?

Coffee makes everything better.

Reflections on leaving an old home.

Hearing things in the woods.

A poem about adjusting to having an adult child.https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2019/07/cooking-for-my-daughter.html由Mark Bonica

When we read, we bridge time and mind.https://honestchaos.blogspot.com/2019/03/reading-aristotles-politics.html由Mark Bonica

Garden hose gorgon由Mark Bonica

Spoken word poetry.由Mark Bonica

spoken word poem由Mark Bonica

A poem about the beginning of the end.由Mark Bonica

Try not to fly to close to the sun.由Mark Bonica

In some traditions, Lilith was actually the first woman, and rejected by Adam when she would not submit to him. Hence the two versions of the creation of humans in Genesis. Lilith was Adam's equal and created at the same time, Eve was created from Adam.由Mark Bonica

The beginning of summer and what it means由Mark Bonica

The ledger of gifts由Mark Bonica

Things don't work out as planned.由Mark Bonica