Monthly Archives: September 2024

On the Ternate Star 1991

September 6, 2024 – 1:33 pm

Nothing like it standing a Stern As awake spreads The ferry struggling through the swells Between tenant day and day nothing like it at all Define Gray haze of dusk Of scaring the volcanoes Leaving behind the bright Pearls of the coastal lights Of a village on tonight___ Out of the channel Any onto the […]

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March 7 1991 – Palu – Journal

September 6, 2024 – 1:21 pm

Listening to the BBC this morning I heard General Schwartzkopf say, “Saddam promised us the mother of all battles. What he got was the mother of all defeats.” The Muslims called The Prayer woke me this morning. The roosters helped open my eyes. The overhead fan called the room slightly and I pulled back to […]

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End Of Summer – Truro – 2024

September 6, 2024 – 11:52 am

Sunrise over the Coast Guard Beach East on Truro The dawn bouncing off the Atlantic To fill the morning sky O’er Cape Cod Bay___ A couple stand on the porch. The last hours of vacation For AP and his loving wife and daughter___ The Audi packed With what is theirs Leaving behind nothing And leaving […]

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Bobby B BADD

September 5, 2024 – 6:39 pm

Gather round my friends To hear a tale. About a young man__ No one knew so well. A drifter dropping off a southbound train. Happy to be anywhere But Laredo___ Bobby B BADD A beat-up black suit on a scarecrow body. A hundred and fifty-four pounds soaking wet He bent over to a trickling hose […]

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March 6 1991 – Palu, Sulawesi – Journal

September 5, 2024 – 2:25 pm

After a week’s diving on Bunaken I was lucky enough to catch the KM Karuna from Bitung, the port for Manado, at the top of Sulawesi. The liner cruised the jungled shore heading east to Borneo. The German-built ship is spacious and only one other Mistah is aboard. A Dutchman. Even after fourhundred years of […]

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