26Sep 2026 MH Clay

A Primer for Post-Apocalyptic Living

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Do not huddle behind your hide, propped and weighted with your fears of an approaching end Do not darken your view with an opaque understanding of your eventualities Nor gloss... Read More
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Do ALL that you can to hold your head high in spite of ALL the happenings happening around us trying to pull us down! ~ Johnny Olson

18Oct 2025 MH Clay

Stop, Drop, And…

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Verklempt, exempt, contempt A nicely rhymed triptych With nothing particular to say Just a line With no spine I thought they might Make a good one but Just a string... Read More
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*It* won’t stop, so neither should we! – Tyler Malone

5Oct 2024 MH Clay

Breaking Code

Once upon a time, he thought himself clever, when he was like all the rest, the rest of them; knowing only mammalian rhythms, homo sapiens significance. He believed the greatest minds; movers and shakers, manipulators of markets, makers of mass mind-set, instigators, inciters, seers, readers of the collective palm; could... Read More
31Dec 2023 MH Clay

Que Sera Ist Sehr Gut

There are loud bangs and whistles, screaming reds and greens bursting overhead. We stand among the masses, shoulder to shoulder, bum to bum. Gluhwein and champagne slosh over onto our frozen fingers. It’s a divine ablution meant to cleanse us in holy preparation on this New Year’s Eve for the... Read More
30Dec 2022 MH Clay

From reading the Tao te Ching, #51:

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I’m buried in dirt Burgeoning Tao is my gardener Wearing a broad-brimmed straw hat To block a baking sun Tao grew the sun From the same nothing dirt Surrounding me... Read More
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A Laozi excuse to slow your roll & grow with the flow… ~ Johnny O

12Feb 2022 MH Clay

Nearly

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A hand gone numb Soon to tingle A lover’s hum A crowd at play The click of a latch A cipher deciphered All variations factored Music A dried blister An... Read More
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Sometimes phenomena remain in the waiting state. – Mike Fiorito

12Dec 2020 MH Clay

Sea Change

Maybe now is the time For putrid waters to Purify Filters infuse with Passing pick and put the Infectious pallor in place Bring back the color of Health Bring it... Read More
12Dec 2020 MH Clay

Astrolabe

Navigating a glass stairway One step ahead Of boot heel shatters Making a name in cloud blown neon Those letters need to ever replicate Name name blinking name Till memories... Read More
12Dec 2020 MH Clay

Goldfish Memory

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Flash Food Sinking Slurped Words Spoken Specious Meanings Meant Wrongly Wound No sound In the bubbly deep Fizzes and pops Are felt To hear The seashell hiss In assaulted ear... Read More
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All of our thoughts silently sing in the mad fishbowl of existence. (Read two more mad missives from MH on his page – check it out.) – Mike Fiorito

28Dec 2019 MH Clay

Blue Nun

12/21/18 Poem by MH and Zim after being in Deep Ellum I feel the blue nun, she’s on the edge of a ready to harvest field of bounty. The sting... Read More
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Rampaging angels; it’s bliss or abyss. (This is a collaborative work between MH and Chris Zimmerly.)