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About Ken Greenman

Married and Happy. Retired and busy. Living in NC. 71 and counting. December 12, 2025 and it's 77! ... I would love some written comments, critiques, adulation or kind suggestions.... If you have the time and or inclination, please feel free! Not in fear but by faith. We will see. See you later! If you ever want to talk for real, email me and I will send you my cell number.... I am enjoying this!

159 The least tern

Is not the least embarassed as he screaches his victory around the flock. “Fish! Flesh! See me! See me!” Then, the flock flocks after him: “Angry! Hungry! Gimmee! Gimmee!” Until the silver minnow sinks beneath the surf. But no one … Continue reading →

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155.A bee wished

I wish you were a Polynesian poppy, polinated by a bee. The only stipulation: that the bee must be me!

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140 A Christmas freshin’

Manure, ice,straw,blood greet the winter birth. fascinating. hypnotic to watch a holsteins travail. the gory infant, hooves and nose first. baby bull destined for slaughter. the struggle for the right to struggle for short sucks on an emptying udder. then … Continue reading →

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157 at the band stand

the old couple chair danced while the town band ressurected Harry James, trumpets blasting, saxs sexing, trombones sliding in and out, in, out, the old couples feet moved faster, their hands held tighter with the beat. later, I know, the … Continue reading →

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156 bubbles, joy and glee

my wife blows bubbles with child like glee! she giggles to see crystal Christmas light bulbs rimming roof tops, glowing the snow. my wife glows, bubbles and enjoys everything. what more can be asked for by me?

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155 .B hints

There was, this evening, a ring around the moon. I knew, at noon, it would be there, felt it coming as the air went frigid damp, as the sky changed blues, a gradual morph of hues, until, at dusk, a … Continue reading →

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154 Psalm 1,212,194,867,201,627.

Gods clouds surpass our towers. Our great sky scrapers dwarft before the majesty of His mountains. In the unplummed depths of His seas, cities sink. In the corridors of His galaxies, in the gallaries of His cosmic maze, our ways … Continue reading →

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153 exit and enter

there is an open door to the room awaiting me, where rest from my journey is granted, free. The only question I ask about that peaceful room: does it have another door, an escape from the tomb? A nervous wondering … Continue reading →

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152 Blue pill cowboy

I’m a blue pill cowboy. Hot dreams, purple, red risings, hungry lusts…. Every lady I see is lovely. All that urge comes into focus on the graceful slopes, the round divides, orbed mounds, soft concaves, warm, moist, hidden places on … Continue reading →

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151 Morning warming

When I came back upstairs from banging down the coal stove ash, adding more to keep the heat, I found my wife, in silk shirt, nude below, was sleeping deeply on my side of the mattress, in my remaining warmth. … Continue reading →

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