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Back Roads

First Street South in St. Petersburg to I-275; 275 across the bay and through Tampa to I-4; I-4 to just past Lakeland, then get the hell off.  We don’t take I-4 through Orlando and home anymore from the Gulf coast. … Continue reading

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Thunderstorms and Drum Circles

Skipped off Skinny Island again Sunday to do a little upkeep on the Gulf Coast offices of the Post.  Work went well, leaving a little time in late afternoon for a trip to the beach.  We normally go in the … Continue reading

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False Summer, Feral Poet Style

A fundamentally simple creature, and not too keen on calendars and clocks, the Feral Poet has been lured into a false sense of summer by the recent spate of unseasonably warm weather here on Skinny Island.  He appeared at the … Continue reading

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Saturdays

Saturday is our day to have The Baby.  He’s three and a half now, but we still call him The Baby, and probably always will, even to his great discomfort.  Saturdays have been our day together since he was an … Continue reading

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Odds and Ends

Long beach walk this morning; infinite range of rose and lavender on horizon reflected in wet sand retreating tide had left; mauve palmettos on still-dark dune.  Reverence comes to mind; little else.  A few birds, a few walkers, all seemed … Continue reading

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Umbrage

Some umbrage and a confession I think are due.  I wasn’t fair about the work done today, the hauling out to the street of all the tree work, etc.  I was in a hurry; not with the work itself, but … Continue reading

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Work and Reminiscence

Pretty tuckered out here.  Spent the morning moving about three months worth of clippings, palm fronds, and the dastardly invasive we cleared from the dune, out to the road for pick-up tomorrow.  We have been putting out a little at … Continue reading

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The Watering

Pre-sun beach walk in light south-west breeze; ocean gray and glassy; opaque, colorless sky; subtle colorations of sand discernible and clear as road signs: red sand soft and giving, slow-going; gray, a firmer cushion; white, sidewalk hard for striding out. … Continue reading

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Mansions and Seductions

Like just about everywhere, I guess, there has been a proliferation of mega-mansions along the waterfronts of Skinny Island in recent years.  In most cases a perfectly acceptable, if smaller house, was bull-dozed to make way for a palatial monstrosity … Continue reading

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The Feral Cubano

Perhaps because his early Florida ancestors lived under Spanish rule, and remembering his own proximity to Latin culture in Tampa, the Feral Poet has always had a thing about Cuba.  We cite the following case: New Pines In green glistening … Continue reading

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