good news from the weekend by katherine osborne & chad redden
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This book is full of pines and good news. The pines are full of good news, and the good news is full of pines. Not just regular good news, it is good news from the weekend. And the good news from the weekend is also full of good news from Doug the helicopter pilot. There is good news from the Rule Books for Rule books. If you were wondering, the Village Witch and the Village Mayor have good news too. The weather reporters, the red smoke rising in the south, and even the carvings in the pine bark are full of good news. And if you didn’t think there could be good news on the shore of the Man made lake, then you will be pleasantly surprised. Even the out of focus side of the mountain has good news. As well as the Guilty Air Moon, the sculpture dedicated to searching, and Emily the bat, who is very full of good news. Where there is smoke at the Rachel made lake there is good news. Where there is a fishing competition there is good news. At the pollination workshop? Yes, there is good news. From the letter carrier? Of course. It is inside of the Rule Book for Fireflies and under the Abandoned Shopping Mall Moon. The ferret’s dream is a good news dream. Good news can be found at the Cub Club! recreational zone, sleeping inside the sleeping bag, floating in the Gary made lake, and even when the vision quest pauses for a snack break. And a catfish from Raleigh and a still life painter have something in common and that is good news. Even the practice of lightning and the wolf workshop and the Breath Holding Moon have good news. The gopher from Bowling Green has good news. So do the wolf with a pine cone in his mouth and the drunken blue heron and the raccoon from Akron. The Village Sheriff will certainly share good news with you. So will the crow from Muncie and the Night Accountant. And when you find the finger in the mud, you will find good news. It sits with the vultures who boil instant noodles. It is in the pages of the Rule Book for Bears. It is in the light of the Heirloom Hairbrush Moon. You can rent a canoe full of good news at the canoe rental shack. Don’t forget to pick up the Rule Book for Cranes or the Rule Book for the Village Witch so you can find more good news. The teens? Oh yes, very full of good news. Down the well? Yes. Deep inside the Cavern of Last Birthdays? Of course! Look up to the Empty Jar Moon, or the equally sad clouds, the adjacent sky, the sunset, or the bulletin board if you want to see more good news. And where there is a migration or a night racket, then there is good news as well. Good news is in the smell that radiates from the Blackwoods. Creates the light moving across the treeline. Rings in the payphone. Gurgles in the Andy made creek. Burns at Trash Burning Rock. Sharpens the knife side of the mountain. Moths around the Porch Light moon. The buffalo in the middle of the road will be sure to share good news with you. The rabbit will tell you about a dream full of good news. When the snowstorm arrives, it brings good news. It fills up both the cabin fever and the Rule Book for Moths. Good news is also inside the light of the lanterns across the creek, the Vanishing Kindness Moon, the ice river, and the shivering and crying squirrel. And when thinking about good news you will of course find more good news. It is even under the ice of the frozen Stanley made pond. Burns in the Cabin Fire Moon. Tunnels beneath the pines. Inspires the Village Arsonist. Good news is a religious experience. Good news gives the woodpecker from Fort Worth purpose. Leads the funeral procession. Squirms under the Muddy Knees Moon and hides in the abandoned barn. It drinks on the rooftop and wakes up with stray teens who wake up in clover. Good news happens on an alternative Earth. It appears as the Sun and comes back at night with the Secret Blooming Moon. Good news floats on thermals above Skull Bone Prairie. Fills the Fragile Ribs Moon. Burns everything up with a forest fire. Then comes back for another weekend.TRANSCRIPT
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GOOD NEWSFROM THE WEEKEND
Katherine Osborne
Chad Redden
LAB LAB LABS 2015
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Good News From the Weekend
Katherine Osborne
Chad Redden
Copyright © 2015
ISBN 978-0692502815
Cover and design by Chad Redden
Published by Lab Lab Labs of Indianapolis, IN
lablablabs.net
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This book is full of pines and good news. The pines are full of
good news, and the good news is full of pines. Not just regular
good news, it is good news from the weekend. And the good
news from the weekend is also full of good news from Doug
the helicopter pilot. There is good news from the Rule Books
for Rule books. If you were wondering, the Village Witch and
the Village Mayor have good news too. The weather reporters,
the red smoke rising in the south, and even the carvings inthe pine bark are full of good news. And if you didn’t think
there could be good news on the shore of the Man made lake,
then you will be pleasantly surprised. Even the out of focus
side of the mountain has good news. As well as the Guilty
Air Moon, the sculpture dedicated to searching, and Emily
the bat, who is very full of good news. Where there is smoke
at the Rachel made lake there is good news. Where there is
a fishing competition there is good news. At the pollination
workshop? Yes, there is good news. From the letter carrier?
Of course. It is inside of the Rule Book for Fireflies and under
the Abandoned Shopping Mall Moon. The ferret’s dream is a
good news dream. Good news can be found at the Cub Club!
recreational zone, sleeping inside the sleeping bag, floating in
the Gary made lake, and even when the vision quest pauses
for a snack break. And a catfish from Raleigh and a still life
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painter have something in common and that is good news.
Even the practice of lightning and the wolf workshop and
the Breath Holding Moon have good news. The gopher from
Bowling Green has good news. So do the wolf with a pine cone
in his mouth and the drunken blue heron and the raccoon
from Akron. The Village Sheriff will certainly share good
news with you. So will the crow from Muncie and the NightAccountant. And when you find the finger in the mud, you
will find good news. It sits with the vultures who boil instant
noodles. It is in the pages of the Rule Book for Bears. It is
in the light of the Heirloom Hairbrush Moon. You can rent
a canoe full of good news at the canoe rental shack. Don’tforget to pick up the Rule Book for Cranes or the Rule Book
for the Village Witch so you can find more good news. The
teens? Oh yes, very full of good news. Down the well? Yes.
Deep inside the Cavern of Last Birthdays? Of course! Look up
to the Empty Jar Moon, or the equally sad clouds, the adjacent
sky, the sunset, or the bulletin board if you want to see more
good news. And where there is a migration or a night racket,
then there is good news as well. Good news is in the smell that
radiates from the Blackwoods. Creates the light moving across
the treeline. Rings in the payphone. Gurgles in the Andy made
creek. Burns at Trash Burning Rock. Sharpens the knife sideof the mountain. Moths around the Porch Light moon. The
buffalo in the middle of the road will be sure to share good
news with you. The rabbit will tell you about a dream full of
good news. When the snowstorm arrives, it brings good news.
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It fills up both the cabin fever and the Rule Book for Moths.
Good news is also inside the light of the lanterns across the
creek, the Vanishing Kindness Moon, the ice river, and the
shivering and crying squirrel. And when thinking about good
news you will of course find more good news. It is even under
the ice of the frozen Stanley made pond. Burns in the Cabin
Fire Moon. Tunnels beneath the pines. Inspires the VillageArsonist. Good news is a religious experience. Good news
gives the woodpecker from Fort Worth purpose. Leads the
funeral procession. Squirms under the Muddy Knees Moon
and hides in the abandoned barn. It drinks on the rooftop
and wakes up with stray teens who wake up in clover. It waitsat the end of Old Beacon Spells road. Good news is at the
Night Sky Festival and the disappearing grounds. And even
inside the village dumpster. Good news asks questions at the
question and answer portion of the poetry reading. Comes out
of the bullfrog from Kansas City. Keeps a baby named Pine
company. Sleeps under the Trembling Twig Moon. Appears in
the dreams of the General Store ATM before floating through
the tornado. You can see it in the glare of the sun. Hear it in
the earthquake and the Rule Book for Thunder. Good news is
a heat wave. An abandoned lot. A cave where solitude does not
mean loneliness. Good news happens on an alternative Earth.It appears as the Sun and comes back at night with the Secret
Blooming Moon. Good news floats on thermals above Skull
Bone Prairie. Fills the Fragile Ribs Moon. Burns everything
up with a forest fire. Then comes back for another weekend.
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Good news from the weekend
Last year it was all pines
Now it’s pines with a helicopter circling overhead
Now it’s pines with wild hair
waking up with colliding needs
Last year there were too many cardinals
Every campsite was on fire with cardinals
This year it’s too many squirrels
with lost paper tails catching
and hanging from pine branches
Good news from Doug the helicopter pilot
Doug also goes by Douglas
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Good news from the Rule Book for Rule Books
A bundle of people
put into a book
can be anything
Improbable eagles for a minute
Impossible fish for another
The pines are a type of book
The people bundled in the pines
are proof of that
Good news from the Village Witch
The pines are always talking
about good news
They don’t know any better
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Good news from the Village Mayor
Last year only one tourist joined the pines permanently
This year is already down one daughter named Emily
Emily is dressed as a bat
She might be sleeping during the day
and hard to see at night
Her mother is dressed as an owl
and named Kristen
Use this information
when attempting to communicate with bats
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Good news from the weekend
Parents tell their children
to pretend bird blood is inside of them
unless the children are dressed as mice
and then it is mouse blood
unless the children are wearing plastic headbands
and then it is bee blood
unless the children are wearing carpet remnants
and then it is cougar blood
Good news from the weather reporters
How does the air feel
Maybe with little hands
no one can see
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Good news from the Village Witch
The pines grew from seeds
designed by former engineers
who retired from Disneyland
who shot the seedlings into space
where something in the radiation
where something in the lack of gravity
where something influenced the pines
Good news from the red smoke rising in the south
There are folks living in the Blackwoods
whose value preferences remain unknown
Good news from the carving in the pine bark
REMEMBER
THIS IS A MEMORIAL
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Good news from the shore of the Man made lake
The fox pauses life a moment
for a photograph
The mountain is out of focus
The moose asks what the fox did
to make the mountain appear so tender
Good news from the Guilty Air Moon
No one sleeps when it is
the sound of portable chairs
portable wheeled coolers
portable butane stoves
levitating into tallest of the taller pines
Pines with open mouths
Pines with recreational desires
The year is getting
expensive for everyone
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Good news from the weekend
Found an empty raft
Found two teeth on the raft
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Good news from the weekend
During the soft hour
people hang
from branches
and sing
and feather
Birth happens
between the pines
A small pebble appears
A small magic pebble
Good news from the sculpture dedicated to searching
Now it’s pines and the sound of pines
The helicopter circling overhead
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The pilot contemplates
what it means
to be inside of a day
If the sun
could be a forgiveness sculpture instead
No one could ever read it
The sun is too bright
but under the sun
are babies
Under the surface of the sun
Good news from Emily the bat
Is it safe
That song
from the pines
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Good news from the carving in the pine bark
Now it is sky inside of sky
Good news from the smoke at the Rachel made lake
Moods come out like that
So often and without any names
Good news from the fishing competition
When it is time for fishing
the fish crouch down in the current
Their plastic skins ripple like terrible things
like how the forms of short stories are terrible things
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Good news from the weekend
There is a hill for only kissing
There is another hill
to see days in the distance
Days forward
or days backward
It depends upon the who
sees from upon the hill
Good news from the pollination workshop
The bees talk
about which books to read
to get over a breakup
and which books evoke
the heartbreaking
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realization that living
is the easiest option
One bee mentions
Nicholas Sparks
Another bee agrees
Good news from the Man made lake
There is some confusion about the Man made lake
If the Man made lake is really a Gary made lake
because 4 logs float counter-clockwise around the lake
which is a signature feature of Gary made lakes
Good news from the Rule Book for Rule Books
A bundle of people
put into a lake
can be a raft of otters
Maybe a myth of lake serpents for a minute
Maybe a hover of trout for another
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Good news from the weekend
Trash bag tails stuffed with newspaper
turn soft after a day
Newspaper tails stuffed with balloons
turn soft after a rain
Balloon tails stuffed with air
turn soft after a night
Rope tails stuffed with rope
never turn soft
only heavy
Good news from the letter carrier
Now it is sky inside of sky
or a dangerous operation
Often that is the subject of their letters
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Often the letters are not finished
being written
being read
If it is not sky inside of sky
It is letters about the mountains
Are they moving closer
or growing bigger
Good news from the Rule Book for Fireflies
A brightly blinking bicycle tail light is cheap
and when worn around the neck can catch attention
Good news from the Abandoned Shopping Mall Moon
Witnessing two people
wearing expensive horse costumes
in a football field will bring luck
Think about the luck of sugar
when witnessing the horses together
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Watch them kiss each other
Think of their lips as scars
reconnecting after ocean distance
When there is sun
make eyes at more expensive horses
Continue to find horses
until luck arrives
When luck arrives
spend it all
Good news from the ferret’s dream
Flower
Flower
Follower
Flower
Flower
Faller
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Good news from the weekend
A porcupine
wearing an orange hat
Yelling
How beautiful
the natural world glitters
even through
this reenactment
And glitters
isn’t the right word
but hours are wasted
not yelling for pines
On alternate Earths
the pines yell back
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Good news from the Cub Club! recreational zone
The pines are thought to be friendly
They are the inhabitants of this realm
From a distance they look soft
They are the ground carpet
Above is the star carpet
Unless it is suntime
and then it is the cloud carpet
Good news from Doug the helicopter pilot
Now it’s the part of the day
when God acknowledges crying
in the shower
and after
the sounding of the shotgun
big flames of a songbird
a hello collecting night and story
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Good news from Emily the bat
Her blood tries to outstare the sky’s blood
Above an owl-shaped hole
cuts through the clouds
Burning an owl shaped mark
on her heart
Good news from the sleeping bag
In the dark
the fabric becomes
a better place
to worm
Good news from the carving in the pine bark
A fine evening
A fine living room
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Good news from the weekend
There are signs among the pines
DO NOT EAT THE PINE CONES
Good news from the Gary made lake
There is some confusion about the Gary made lake
If the Gary made lake is really a Rachel made lake
because a secret island is rumored to float around the lake
which is a signature feature of Rachel made lakes
Good news from the Vision Quest
Water and a light snack
are provided
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Good news from Emily the bat
Falling thirsty against a pine
she remembers apartments
and kitchens and then a time
when humans wore their own faces
She remembers her face shining
as she leaned into the glossy
oranges at the supermarket
Her mother wearing a dark coat
hurrying into the cold
A field of cars
Good news from the Man made lake
The lizards root for driftwood to cover
their lizard skins while they shed
down to their shame skins
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Good news from the weekend
It is amazing how when an event happens
the event can actually indent the air
It is amazing how an indention can be felt
It is amazing how an indention becomes a place to sit in
which is strange because it is also
becomes a place to stand inside
It is amazing how where there is air there is also grass
It is amazing soft grass
Good news from the catfish from Raleigh
It’s great living
with tails
and trading tails
with friends
and making
new friends
for tail trades
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Good news from the still life painter
The boundary of sight
always creates a wall
unless it creates a window
as if there are pines
and behind those pines a sky
Or pines and then more pines
and a red sky behind
A current underneath
Good news from the practice of lightning
A small cheer rises from the pines
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Good news from the weekend
Geese always tend to say
That mirror surface
or
That water mirror
Never just
That water
or
That that
Good news from the Rule Book for Rule Books
A bundle of people
put into a cave
can be a cloud of bats
Maybe a bite of stalactites for one minute
Maybe a knot of blind newts for another
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Good news from the wolf workshop
A wolf always stands
at the edge of campfires
with quarter-sized mirrors
held over their eyes
This signal alerts the other animals
to recognize their sudden doom
Good news from the Breath Holding Moon
What defeats everyone
A face where a face is not expected
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Good news from the weekend
It’s great being lost
upon the rim of the valley
And keeping the heart beating
through walking and journaling
And yelling out to the pines below
and hearing nothing yell back
Good news from the gopher from Bowling Green
Cautiously is the best
and only way to reach out
around the pines
Always call out
Always be a presence
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Good news from the Village Witch
The pines oxygenate the air
with everything they hear
If the pines find a moment
they will adopt the moment
and rename it Good News
The pines are a clock
with one speed
Good news from the wolf with a pine cone in his mouth
Mwrugh hurmph phrey
Good news from the drunken blue heron
The tent tilts
and out spills
a family
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Good news from the weekend
Last year the only mystery
was discovering if the red
mushrooms were poisonous
This year it’s the same mystery
plus the mystery of remembering
who solved last year’s mystery
Good news from the raccoon from Akron
And then someone
in the window
perhaps seeing her
And then someone
in the window
perhaps waving
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Good news from the Village Sheriff
A window without glass
does not mean it is open
Good news from the crow from Muncie
This hill is a dirt cloud
Good news from the Night Accountant
The heart should be unanimous
when it is not
who should ask
What is missing
Someone should ask
and maybe that someone should be her
but the shape she envisions
is more important
It is a pond shape
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When it is night and time for counting
she slides under the pond water
to make sure all of the frogs
and cars occupied with lyric skeletons
are accounted for
Then leaves their shapes
unanimous with the dark
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Good news from the weekend
For a man dressed
as a wolverine
a really nice vacation
can be walking
to any strange sound
with a flashlight expecting
something terrible
to happen and walk
around trees like people
who will never like people
and shine America into light
Good news from the finger found in the mud
A place with fingers
it is not a society
though the human brain
tries to find a society there
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Good news from the vultures boiling instant noodles
The secret to the glowing
beneath the turtles is simple
They watch movies
inside their makeshift shells
On an alternate Earth
real animals stream
between the pines
Good news from the Rule Book for Bears
When mauling another animal
listen for the animal to yield
and end the mauling
in a polite and timely manner
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Good news from the weekend
Sometimes
by the end of the weekend
a blue jay
will switch roles
with a raven
It makes sense
Many want to
feel more feathered
more moody
more omen
Good news from the Heirloom Hairbrush Moon
This night is a hand-held night
Crying might unlock one of the pines
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The forest is a reflection for anyone
Lightning bugs follow the rules and speak softly
Be quiet and wait for the humorous conclusion
It was the duck not the mouse who spoke
Good news from the canoe rental shack
Wear flotation devices
even when looking at a lake
because no divers are certified to dive
the distance of forever here
The lake is that deep and it’s how
a lake shows affection for another lake
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Good news from the weekend
No one remembers
digging the well
that appeared
in the village
No one remembers
if there is a center
of the village
to debate
if the well appeared
in center of the village
Good news from the Rule Book for Cranes
Must stand on two feet
Must at all times
Must stand in the horizon
Must at all times
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Must extend wings in aggressive manner
when approached
Must relocate to the horizon
Must at all times
Good news from the Rule Book for the Village Witch
Photograph unmasked faces
and bury the photos around
the pines and village
Occasionally what is beneath the pines
will be discovered
Occasionally a baby will be discovered
And every discovered baby
should be named Pine
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Good news from the weekend
Last year the pines were mostly green
Now the pines are mostly green and yellow
because of the caution tape
Last year nothing could happen
without a few hundred dollars
Now there is plenty of time to dream
Now there is plenty of time to be with friends
Good news from the letter carrier
Today there are no letters
about humans
just bees
and pines
and hand language
and August
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Good news from the teens
There is a secret island hidden
somewhere in the lake
It’s a place for underage beers
and where boy hands can grow
where boy hands aren’t meant to grow
And the berries there
are meant to induce laughter
but last year some of the younger doves
started crying at the top of the dunes
about a shadow floating under the surface of the lake
Crying for days until they died
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Good news from the weekend
A breakdown
of the spirit
can come out
as a sing-a-long
or like any cloud
or no particular cloud
forgotten inside
of a larger cloud
Good news from Doug the helicopter pilot
Wind has the power to turn back time
Wind doesn’t use that power though
Wind is exactly lacking the willpower of a boar
Wind is exactly where it wants to be as half a boar
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Wind is folded in the blindfold of the horizon
Wind smokes a last cigarette in the sunhappy sky
Good news from the well
The water tastes as clean
as any water from a bottle
Good news from outside the Cavern of Last Birthdays
It’s not an omen but
the dark bird hasn’t left the pine
Something gestures
the birds to the inner branches
The second branch is not where
the second branch should be
A man as a cougar
waits to wear his cross again
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Good news from the weekend
A phone held in the air is kind of flag
Good news from the Empty Jar Moon
A phone held to the ground is a kind of wish
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Good news from the weekend
One explanation
for the coyote
looping around
the sagebrush
is that he keeps
daily footstep goals
Good news from the equally sad clouds
A thing
feeling awake
must repeat
very secret
treatments
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Good news from the adjacent sky
A wife and children watching
like they were stolen out of a commercial
When the heart restarts
it has a difficult time
It remembers but
beats a little dull
Good news from Doug the helicopter pilot
A sign on the sun says stay sullen
and of course this is a strange country
and of course it is full of nobody
and of course saying yes
is a serious thing
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Good news from the sunset
The end of every day
makes it looks like
at least another
day will happen
Good news from the out of focus side of the mountain
When the sadness sirens
in village sound
it disappoints the President
shaped clouds
and makes them
less like clouds
and more like distant fogs
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Good news from the weekend
Wild flurries arrive
in dreams
and in scalps
but not in the pines
Some of the flurries
that can stay
decide not to
Good news from the bulletin board
Found a bee journal
Whole book with some water damage
The word “bee” is written on every page
Sometimes more than once
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Good news from the migration
Geese practice dramatic
leavings and landings
because when they return
the landscape
will be remodeled
Good news from the night racket
What is a bad feeling
Does it look like when
the possum from Calgary
mistakes the darkness for a crown
and gets drunk on the fragrances
of dumpsters while mourning
how soon weekends end
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Good news from the weekend
The river has flowed
terribly wrong into
everyone’s shoes
and the road
and into the safe
at the bank
and into the sky
and it’s flowing up
and into the sun
The river has flowed
so terribly much
Good news from the Blackwoods
He lost two kids there
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They were generic trees
with factory cut silk leaves
and they ran without listening
into the swamp
He searched
in the mountings of sawgrass
which seemed like floating cities
or rare water mammoths
And found
the Earth’s prime foundations
the Earth’s million dollars
Good news from the light moving across the treeline
Who is escaping
Who is running without a name
Running into the dark
Into the pines
What is inside of them
Is it maybe a melon
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Good news from the Village Sheriff
Miracles can arrive
within any of the twenty-four hours
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Good news from the weekend
Last year the lungs were breathing evenly
This year the lungs are exhausted
Now trouble is crammed inside of a hole
Trouble is a skunk from Tulsa
crammed inside of a hole
and someone recalls
the story of a yellow bear
stuck in a hole
Good news from the payphone
And someone calls
the village fire and rescue team
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Good news from the Andy made creek
And someone calls
for a straw
Good news from Trash Burning Rock
And someone calls
for lizards
Good news from the knife side of the mountain
And someone calls
to the bottom of the knife side of the mountain
Good news from the Porch Light Moon
And someone calls
for the ghosts inside of everything
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Good news from the weekend
The Blue Heron was
seen dragging blue light
out of the blue van
which was parked
The Blue Waxbill was
seen gathering blue
then trading blue
with some teens
Good news from the buffalo in the middle of the road
He corrects everyone and explains
how he is actually a bison
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Good news from the rabbit’s dream
In a newspaper
there is a section
dedicated to the recovery
of feral children
And an editorial
about what promises
to make to coyotes
And an ad
that asks
Does anyone know
the sort of effect
breathing cold air triggers
Good news from Doug the helicopter pilot
He owns a grenade
He didn’t have to buy it
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Good news from the weekend
People developed methods
and ritual and everybody
began snowing
and undressing
and lifting their arms
for flurries to fall free
from their armpits
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Good news from the snowstorm
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Good news from the Village Sheriff
During an absence of gravity what shouldn’t be named snow
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Good news from the weekend
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Good news from the cabin fever
Everything goes into the mouth at once
Even the phone with all its phone numbers
Even the children huddled in circles together
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Good news from the weather reporters
There are four different colors in the sky
In the north
In the above
In the south
In the south west
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Good news from the rule book for moths
Keep the curtain open
Look at the snowdrift
Ask how many lambs are inside
Burn around the house
Wrap up in fabric
Be a bride for maybe a day
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Good news from the lanterns across the creek
There were three
One leading the others
or the others chasing the one
Now there is only one
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Good news from the weekend
Try it
It tickles
Good news from the Vanishing Kindness Moon
Listen up
There is violence
Good news from Emily the bat
She drops a lit match in the snow
Everyone knows what happens now
She could win
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Good news from the weekend
Something gathers
beyond the edge
of the cabin light
in threes
Good news from the cabin fever
The important thing is to
keep an interest in sleeping
Good news from the bones found beside the creek
It’s unpredictable
what can land a punch inside the heart
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Good news from the ice river
Under the ice a kiss
or maybe now it’s a small ice age
without the hassle of larger animals roaming
slow through backyards demanding
weird sleeping arrangements
Good news from the shivering and crying squirrel
She always climbed trees as a child
It’s a really good thing
she isn’t climbing trees now
Trees that are people in costume
There are laws
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Good news from thinking about good news
Some weekends good news is very hard to find
because most of it fits within a hand
within another hand
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Good news from the weekend
Last year it was uninterrupted snow
Now it’s snow interrupted by the hibernation teacher
Now it’s paper birds running through the pines
Good news from the frozen Stanley made pond
There is an exhale
just beneath the ice
And an exhale under ice
bubbles in exactly the same way
if it is a scream for help
or the answer to world peace
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Good news from thinking about good news
There are glaciers and there are the children of glaciers
The children of glaciers are not icebergs
Icebergs never leave the lake
That is one difference
Good news from the Cabin Fire Moon
The dark resented
the cabin’s generosity
and slumped against
the snow bank
and tried to diagnose
the source of their jealousy
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Good news from the tunnels beneath the pines
The low life animals keep oaths
To keep sunshine a memory
To know each Pine by rootprint
To obey the Rule Books
To not dig deeper
To not discover what is beneath the beneath
Good news from the Village Arsonist
Last year tool cabinets
This year kitchen cabinets
It’s great how a small thing
like a year can change a person
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Good news from the weekend
On the bendable ends of branches
strange invisible homes are there
Yellow light hangs in giant slabs
Skirts of meat in the sky
They lift up with ease
Men dressed as coyotes
almost kill themselves
to look all of the way up
Good news from the religious experience
The hunter emerged from the brush
She put bright feathers into motion
Jumped upward with her wings
A secret in the skeleton
kept her down near the field
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Good news from the woodpecker from Fort Worth
A voice of the sun
is an apple
It is saying
look at this color
explore a hand
Another voice of the sun
is the rock
Listen
It is saying
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Good news from the weekend
Last year it was clean sheets
Now it’s a shadow tethered to wrinkled sheets
A shadow who is not a restful sleeper
Now it’s more wrinkled sheets
Good news from the letter carrier
Last year it was just a field
Now it’s a lightning strike
in the shape of a field
Good news from the well
Another voice rises from below
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Good news from the teens
Earlier this year a bat
lost her way in the pines
which are really
part of a labyrinth
She found the center
and her way home
but no one was sure
if it was really her
that came back
Good news from the funeral procession
Flower
Flower
Follower
Flower
Flower
Faller
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Good news from the weekend
There’s this hour
in the scheduled dusk
with a throat
when the sky
fills with lessons
The sadness sirens
The teen coyotes
The Pines
The lakes
The babies
The field
recordings
of insects
Decades old
but still
insects
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Good news from the Village Mayor
This year keeps collecting
Now this year has a buffalo
three teenage chipmunks
a mother named Kristen
and one little bat
Good news from Doug the helicopter pilot
Many think thunder is a creature
That when thunder exists
it is once and with a quality of life
determined by the amount of seconds
a thunder can thunder
Thunder is not a temporary creature
Thunder is a family song
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Good news from thinking about good news
A hand is within another hand
Good news from the Muddy Knees Moon
The mountain goats shed in the rain
Now it is naked people wearing only horns
Now it is thunderclaps or horns colliding
Good news from the abandoned barn
The starling hides in the eaves
It is a sign of affection
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Good news from drinking on the rooftop
The greatest injury
would be to not fall
Good news from the strays teens waking up in clover
It’s great to watch everyone
walking on the highway
as if there were a highway
Good news from Old Beacon Spells Road
Deer gather the mannequin arms
sucked up by the storm
It wasn’t even a big storm
They just had really weak arms
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Good news from the weekend
If anyone hasn’t picked up a stone
and flung it at an airplane
find a stone
If anyone hasn’t found an actual stone
gather litter and fold it
into an origami stone
Good news from the Night Sky Festival
Everyone dresses up
as their favorite moon
It’s easy to tell which
moons come from a city
They are valuable and like
to be photographed
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Good news from the edge of the Disappearing Grounds
Certain words can bring a parent into view
It’s called communication
Say a word like
help
mom
dad
quick
sand
and in time
a parent will appear
Good news from the village dumpster
The deer couldn’t think of a better place
to dispose of the mannequin arms
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Good news from thinking about good news
Lakes in love with other lakes
will sink lower to touch toes
with the toes of other lakes
Pines grow closer together
to forget their individuality
Boulders dissolve into heartbeats
Good news from Q&A portion of the poetry reading
What happens in the stomach of a lake
when that lake sees a lake
they think is very beautiful
Is it frogs or alligators
or is it people swimming deep
and without snorkels
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And if it is any assortment of animals
does the lake arrange for those animals
to swim inside their stomach
Is the purpose of life on land to work jobs
and live lives waiting for a lake to issue a call
for animals swim within them when the lake
is ready to fall in love
And really
where is the stomach of a lake
Good news from Emily the bat
There are blue eggs
that need collected
in her dream about blue eggs
One of the eggs is in disguise
It is actually a child
Actually
most of the eggs are children
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They remove their disguises
in a movement similar to hatching
Some of the children
find rocks for circling
The kind of rocks needed
to build sundials which fail
to shadow every day at 3 PM
Good news from Doug the helicopter pilot
One ambition is to live in a house made of bricks
but with bricks where windows should be
For the bricks to fill in the windows
not for the house to be built without windows
Bricks filling the windows so the house looks asleep
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Good news from the weekend
The loon apologizes for appearing
in the dreams of others
even though the loon is unsure
what he represents to the sleeping mind
It’s the question the loon
would most like an answer to
when he dies
When the angel opens up
the big book with all the answers
The loon believes in big angels
and big books with big answers
Good news from the bullfrog from Kansas City
Found a baby in the pines
Looks okay
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Good news from the Village Mayor
And is any of this true
A family of puddles is a lake
A family of lakes is a sea
A family of seas is an ocean
A family of oceans is an Earth
Or is a family of oceans is an ocean
Good news from the letter carrier
One postcard is about the fever shaped clouds
Another is about the saddest thing a squirrel can do
It was about a squirrel trapped in the dumpster
The squirrel was tangled up in mannequin arms
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Good news from the weekend
Wild ponies arrive
in hallucinations
but not in dreams
or in the fields
Some of the ponies
that can speak
decide not to
Good news from the Stanley made pond
If a sword appears
at the end of an arm
in the middle of the pond
seven times
it must mean something
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Good news from a baby named Pine
Everything is a little thunderous
Good news from the Trembling Twig Moon
Discover scars on each other
and think that touching them
will bring luck
Think about the luck of monks
when touching the scars of each other
Place sugar into each other’s mouths
and make eyes like the eyes of people wearing
expensive horse costumes
looking into the sun
Continue to discover new scars on each other
and touch them until luck arrives
When the luck arrives
treasure it openly
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Good news from thinking about good news
There are woodpeckers and there are woodhammerers
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Good news from the weekend
Now it’s pines transmitting moods
through the air
Now it’s pines waiting for the year to move into winter
though winter ended a few months ago
Good news from the General Store ATM
Last night a dream
Twenty dollars
It was green
with the seventh
Pine President
on the face
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Pines standing
above the timberlineon the back
Pines on top
of the mountain
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Good news from the weekend
The tornado sirens sound
similar to the sadness sirens
Good news floating through the tornado
A bee costume
It is dead
No stinger
Good news floating through the tornado
Last year it was a ransom note
Now instead of a ransom note it’s a small bear
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Good news floating through the tornado
A heartbreaking postcard
in support of vaccination
Good news floating through the tornado
A soft carnation like propeller
Good news floating through the tornado
Big flakes of plaster
Good news floating through the tornado
The end of a song
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Good news from thinking about good news
A place for a backyard
A place for a heart to move in place
A place for circles
A place for film development
A place for hearing good news
A place for mannequin arms
A place for free magazines
A place for moisture
Good news through the glare of the sun
Two mammoth columns of clouds
A blanket tossed down carelessly
Invisible golden fish
rise in a sequence
because that is the way of them
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Good news from the Village Witch
Many are making plans for last month
Figuring out ways to return there again
Something they’ve learned from plastics
The hope of the returning point
means repeating little moments happening
and then sleep
That’s what makes a day
little moments happening
and then sleep
Slowed down once
and it was the worst
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Good news from the weekend
Birds begin to wish upon their own wishbones
At the campsite
someone asks another if they hear popcorn
Good news from the earthquake
Everyone is full of concerns
Someone can’t find their water filter
Someone can’t reach their pastry brush
A helicopter is above the pines and the pilot
is not waving back to the people below
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Good news from the Rule Book for Thunder
Secure all possessions
when piloting the craft
Do not allow cups or wigs
to fall from a helicopter height
Other than death or injury
such actions can cause confusion
Only pilots designated as
rain or snow or hail
may drop objects
from a helicopter height
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Good news from thinking about good news
A place for salamanders
A place for a skinned knee
A place for rainwater to evaporate
A place for air to collect
A place for a birthday party
A place for waving
A place for playing dead
A place for a place
Good news from the heat wave
A spell sat here
whispering
the greatest spell
no one ever heard
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Which was not what
the spell was about
The spell was for the sun
Be a dogfight
here all daylight
Good news from the vacant lot
The answer is no
Good news from inside Solitude Is Not Loneliness Cave
Sometimes the only light
is the unconscious light
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Good news from an alternate Earth
Something out on the lake
floats into view
It is a swarm of inconsolable bees
merging to become one large inconsolable bee
Good news from the teens
A headless skeleton was found
out in the grassy circuits
Its bones were black
but not from fire
not from something near
our local sun
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Good news from the Sun
Other stars have to go a long way to see a living person
Good news from the village Sheriff
On other Earths
the horizon
is a garment to share
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Good news from thinking about good news
A place for sleep
A place for visitors
A place for routine
A place for a parked car
A place for the triple-digit summer
A place for borrowing money
A place for cardboard ears
A place for morals to change
Good news from the Sun Day party
Keep people laughing
The spirit evaporates
inside two hours of light
and a deer costume
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Good news from the Secret Blooming Moon
Not tonight cicadas
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Good news from the weekend
A fable about fear
has sent the boys
dressed as newts
into the valley below
to prove their newthood
Right now nine lives
are lost there
They are camouflaged
between the pine and pine
Good news from the teens down at Trash Burning Rock
Morning is good
and full of gasoline smell
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Good news from the village witch
The silhouettes are sad and quiet
with secret wills and secrets
They all know phone numbers to call
but would rather escape on foot
Good news from the well
It’s rare when there’s
wind down there
But wind is down there
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Good news from thinking about good news
A place for low tide
A place for antlers
A place for red
A place for a mirror
A place for the tent
A place for bread
A place for cars to idle
A place for money to burn
Good news from the thermals above Skull Bone Prairie
It is difficult to tell from here
when the goat started to get thirsty
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Good news from Emily the bat
She covers her eyes
and counts to 100
The complicated heat
sends lucid dreams
through the tall grasses
It’s not June yet but feels
like that same kind of trouble
Good news from a baby named Pine
Particles
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Good news from the weekend
A snake happens in the hole
where a pine once happened
The pine happens
somewhere else now
The pine might now happen
as a door frame or a bed
The pine might now happen
where a snake once happened
There is no answer for anyone
unless they are the pine happening
For everyone else there are only
wishes and better wishes
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Good news from the carving in the pine bark
All of the action takes place to the north
Good news from the letter carrier
In the darkest pen
write a prayer
Everything that needs heard
will be answered immediately
but remember
a door is wild
with what a door does
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Good news from thinking about good news
A place for flare guns
A place for the hour between 11 and 12
A place for the sermon
A place for explaining hooves
A place for a myth
A place for zipping apart
A place for the sadness siren
A place for the other siren
Good news from the Fragile Ribs Moon
Stand close enough
to know why midnight exists
It’s meant to take up
the entire field of vision
Never question anyone
standing outside in towel
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or robe in the dark and crying
Midnight has been known
to cause that kind of reaction
in people when properly observed
When witnessing people in these moments
become a kind of museum guard
who wants to prevent flash photography
But also prevent something else
perhaps anything else from happening
Good news from Emily the bat
Out drinking rain from little paintbrushes
Pine needles on the tongue and they feel vivid
While a scentless candle burns
for aesthetics like this
While a resting quiet burns
for comfort and assistance like this
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Good news from the teens
Smoke from the pines
Rumors of ritual sacrifice
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Good news from the forest fire
Imagine a message
sent centuries ago
now being received
Imagine a message
that old still able
to be understood
Imagine flags appearing on branches
heralding another form of Christmas
Imagine the roundness of the sky
forgotten in a hurry
Imagine the pines reverse direction
in the dark
Imagine the hidden interior of tree light
casting signatures on a small eye
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Imagine digging for roots
because roots have blood inside
A blood to drink and stay alive
Imagine in the flames
what looks like a little horse
surrounded by other flames
which look like little riders
who hold their hands up
calling for the next turn to ride
Imagine the soil
has been discovered
and game of hide
and seek has ended
but the soil continues
to crouch down
like it is still hiding
Imagine a man walking
out of the fire
carrying a small deer
with the face
of a daughter
with his own face
with the face of a father
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Imagine saying
What a great video
all of this would have made
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Good news from the weekend
The sky painted itself
an unremarkable blue
The sky is famous for that
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Thank you
Bob Schofield
tumblr dot com
Google Documents
and the Pines
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Katherine Osborne lives in Holliston, MA
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Chad Redden lives in Indianapolis, IN
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