by adam strange | Oct 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
drumwordspokenbeat Nantahala We found a of map of the Great Smoky Mountains and picked a national forest namedNantahala because we liked the sound of its name. Winter was receding and wedecided to travel south to meet the spring. Hella and Birdie traveled down from...
by adam strange | Apr 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
drumwordspokenbeat Freeze Road “Where is the yellow teapot?” I asked anyone who might be listening. No one answered. I stood on the black and white checkerboard linoleum floor in the kitchen of an old farmhouse that was a couple of miles out of town past the school of...
by Drum Word Spoken Beat | Jan 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
drumwordspokenbeat Vermont In the beginning of August, Moon, Hella, Birdie and I went on an exodus to the promisedland. We travelled through spring and early summer in Moon’s white hatchback that wascovered in stickers: LOVE YOUR MOTHER ENLIGHTEN UP COEXIST This time...
by Drum Word Spoken Beat | Aug 10, 2021 | Uncategorized
drumwordspokenbeat Cayuga Like its mythical namesake, Ithaca, New York is home to many natural wonders of the elements. The road into town from the south is a two-lane highway that winds through the ancestral homeland of the Haudenosaunee (people of the longhouse)...
by Drum Word Spoken Beat | Apr 11, 2021 | Uncategorized
drumwordspokenbeat Aurora Street The sun was high in the sky when I woke up in the attic room of the house on Aurora Street. The weather had taken a sharp turn towards winter and the wind chill was in the air. It was much too cold to get out of bed so I wrapped the...
by Drum Word Spoken Beat | Jul 2, 2020 | Uncategorized
drumwordspokenbeat ITHACA, NEW YORK A boombox blasted from an upstairs window. My new friend Moon and I dancedin the courtyard between halls. We were students in the first third of the lastdecade of the previous millennium – a time after many revolutions and...
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