parmer @theoblongpilgrim ?

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  • parmer wrote a new blog post: aphorisms   9 years, 9 months ago · View

    There apparently is a universe.   At least we have long been assuming this—for we are likely somewhat in it or within it.   It seems to be everywhere. Nothingness has no place; location itself has no meaning; movement, as a concept, is unclear–stillness even less. And then there is gravity–but where is it? Thus comes along […]

  • parmer wrote a new blog post: O rebel-in-the-green   12 years, 2 months ago · View

    a trinity of terror–in their wars of greed and domination– the hideous international mass killers–bush-obama-cheney– aiding the most extreme, reactionary latin american governments here as they attempt to exterminate progressive social rebellions. in the sixties–thought we could change the world–stop the wars– save the planet–decades later–now learning–maybe can’t even save one little girl–when does one […]

  • parmer wrote a new blog post: THE WOODS   12 years, 3 months ago · View

    barn owl asleep on a high beam the buttercups and the crickets undiscovered springs in the earth coyote, the mischief-maker life hidden in an old stone wall now wonder and wander away henceforth and so forever more for thus i carve you a mystery drifting with the sadness of life sorrows of the long unnumbered […]

  • parmer wrote a new blog post: Calcutta 1965   12 years, 4 months ago · View

    which reminds me of the fabled olivier faxxx, a frenchman who walked and hitchhiked from paris to india in 1965. total expenses–one dollar a week on average. in those days the hospitality in the islamic countries was wonderful. i made about half that trip with olivier. we were especially well received in syria where i […]

  • parmer wrote a new blog post: mali walk, west africa   12 years, 8 months ago · View

    * * * * * * * * waxtu nelaw mooy fu ma gemmeentu jot-e ONCE WALKED FROM MOPTI IN MALI TO THE BORDER WITH SENEGAL CARRYING A ROSIN BAG * messages recieved: * * * * *  I was reading about Africa as my wife has left me.  I m in a wheelchair now […]

  • parmer wrote a new blog post: lowliness of water   12 years, 9 months ago · View

    by a hut in the oaxaca mountains from a certain irregular mystic to a small gathering of zapotec elders the following message: ***note the semi-bizarre influence-mixture of the T. gospel, Rimbaud, and Lao Tzu– (frank parmer snider) Once there was a rich man who said to himself, ” I will sow and plant and reap. […]

  • parmer became a registered member   12 years, 10 months ago · View

  • parmer wrote a new blog post: Anhak and Heavyhead   12 years, 10 months ago · View

    I wandered through cow pastures along a broken down fence up into the wooded hills of Appalachia. Had found an abandoned farmhouse and was living there. That was in 1954 and I must have been thirteen. Halfway along in a field a fox was eating on a live groundhog. Down in the burrow I could […]