GOT THE CHICKENS! BUT AIMING FOR A COW!

Well, that was interesting -- limping across the Sonora Desert peering at but staying away from the misnamed Teddy Bear cholla cacti and learning how to tell the age of looming Saguaro.

During my online absence, at least 2 things happened. First, the brilliant Thylias Moss joined poetry blogland HERE. I welcome her Tuning Fork to the blogosphere!

Secondly, Meritage Press' Tiny Book series garnered enough sales of Dan Waber's all alone again to donate two "flocks of chicks" to Heifer International, which notes:

Chickens are a real value. Starting at six months, they can lay up to 200 eggs a year — a reliable source of protein for children who otherwise subsist mostly on starches. Extra eggs can be sold to pay for school, clothes and medicine. And in the vegetable garden, chickens peck at bugs and weeds, scratch up the soil and enrich it with droppings.

Well, yadda: Poetry feeds the world!

Do keep those orders coming in for Tiny Books! I'ma tellin' ya -- you might be able to retire on this collectible someday!

Meanwhile, here's how I fed myself recently from another list of whines & wines:

BOOKS:
FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS, poems by William Allegrezza

ALL ALONE AGAIN, poem by Dan Waber

BONE PAGODA, poems by Susan Tichy

BELLUM LETTERS, poems by Michelle Detorie

DAPHNOMANCY * improvisations, poems by Michelle Detorie

THE CASE OF THE LOST OBJECTIVE (CASE), poems and visual poetry by Sheila Murphy

LEADS, poems by Rochelle Ratner

THE STATES, Vols. I and II, tear-out post-card book of poems and photographs with poems by Craig Foltz

BROKEN WORLD, poems by Joseph Lease

BRIEF HISTORY OF GIRL AS MATCH, poems by Kristy Bowen

OCCASION IN THE MOSAIC DISTANCE, poem by Paul Klinger

ALL THIS FALLING AWAY, poems by Tim Armentrout

THE CONTORTIONS, poems by Nicole Mauro

SILENT PICTURES RECOGNIZE THE WORLD, poems by Wanda Phipps

WOW R U A BOT?, poems by Anna Madison

RIFFING ON BIRD AND OTHER SAD SONGS, poems by Lisa Janssen

CLEAVING, poems by Dion Farqhar

THE PILL VERSUS THE SPRINGHILL MINE DISASTER, poems by Richard Brautigan

PASSING OVER, poems by Norman Finkelstein

THE BOOK OF OCEAN, poems by Maryrose Larkin

THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT, poems by Lisa Fishman

THE HOT GARMENT OF LOVE IS INSECURE, poems by Elizabeth Reddin

FREE FALL, visual art/poetry by Nick Piombino

DISASTER 3, poetry journal edited by Marcus Civin

HOLY THE FIRM, meditations on nature/philosophy by Annie Dillard

DOG YEARS, memoir by Mark Doty

HOW TO SPEAK DOG: THE ART OF DOG-HUMAN COMMUNICATIONS by Stanley Coren

THE QUILTER'S HOMECOMING, novel by Jennifer Chiavirini

THE GUARDIAN, novel by Dee Henderson

TRUE COURAGE, novel by Dee Henderson

THE HEALER, novel by Dee Henderson

THE EXILE, novel by Allen Folsom

WINE:
2003 Kistler chardonnay
2003 Dutch Henry chardonnay
2003 Dutch Henry zinfandel
1994 Eileen Hardy shiraz
2000 "Hazy Blur" shiraz
1996 Gevrey-Chambertin Geantet-Pansiot
2004 J.J. Prum Wehlenuhr Sonnenuhr Kabinett
2004 Paul Hobbs Barndoor NV cabernet
1995 Vega Sicilia Valbuena No. 5
2001 Campaccio Terrabianca