When I was little, Grandma’s birthday was on October 8. Mom would say, “Grandma’s a true Libra.” Upon Googling “Libra characteristics” I learned that Libras are fascinated by the balance…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Monkey
Pineapple Trick…or Treat?
“See you back in ten years,” my G.I. guy said after my “all clear” colonoscopy. Sister had a polyp snipped at hers and gets to repeat the pleasure in five….
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Monkey
Goodbye Hollow Ween
My parents left me in the car while they voted for President Roosevelt at the grade school. I had my jack-o’-lantern for company. There were three older kids, school kids,…
Bamboo Shoots Prompt for Year of the Monkey
Year of the Monkey for October : )
Time flies. We’re getting up into the holiday months. This month we’re going to start moving the upper limit, uh, up. So this month you can write a haiku or…
Bamboo Shoots awards
Year of the Monkey winners for September : )
It was tough this month. This is the most intense the competition has been in a while. The two winners are Jim Harstad for Heading Upstream, and Darrel for Wasting…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Monkey
Time
Isn’t time strange? Time is always ticking away, moving forward creating a future, yet forming a history into the past. Time and emotions are linked together. Sometimes time will feel…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Monkey
Wasting time, 100 words
My fahdah only get two ansas fo everyting: “waste time” and “no need.” If you like go Ala Moana and he no like take you, he tell, “waste time.” If…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Monkey
Endless summer
I wish for an endless summer, thinking about time passing as my Baby grows up. It’s Labor day, doing time at the beach, families and picnics all around. It’s the…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Monkey
Heading Upstream
Summer’s officially done. The dogs and silvers are running in Union River, way back in the alders. Passing the football lazily back and forth in the upper pasture, Evers and…
Bamboo Shoots Submission for Year of the Monkey
Dope
It’s smoke It’s dope Can’t cope With this mentality Of high anxiety It’s friggin killing me. I’m pharming I’m pissing I’m looking What’s missing? The high potency Of crystallized THC….