ACLU will stand firm For FOIA (You can’t have TMI About some things) The HOA really ought to respect DIY And the FBI conform to DEI And about DOD and JCS? OMG Another SNAFU FWIW A recent headline in WAPO “BLA is stirring up controversy As it wades into the murky Business of college NIL” […] The post FYI BY JOHN DOUGHERTY first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post FYI BY JOHN DOUGHERTY appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

My father brought a blue wool sweater Back from war, and put it in a drawer, And never took it out. He wouldn’t hear of washing it, And that just served to tip me off To complications, as I suppose there always are. The magnum of champagne, the mighty splurge Of Piper-Heidsieck, marked forty-five Years […] The post PIPER BY JOHN DOUGHERTY first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post PIPER BY JOHN DOUGHERTY appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

I had a student once held spellbound By the world of animals, Whether tame or wild or feral. She was enchanted by what it was, And as I came to understand with shivers, Disturbed by what it wasn’t. For her It seemed a place of rare and needful Refuge from the human world Of out-and-out […] The post JUST JUDGMENTS BY JOHN DOUGHERTY first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post JUST JUDGMENTS BY JOHN DOUGHERTY appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

It was so much fun to take the kid-ways And cut through alleyways to get from street to street. They were warrens of unmapped passageways Between some laws of propriety and private property, Between and among the one-and-two-family homes, Small yards, store backs, small factories, Embellished by holes and gaps and grips for climbing. You […] The post WAITING UP BY JOHN DOUGHERTY first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post WAITING UP BY JOHN DOUGHERTY appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

The risks in developing superintelligence include the risk of failure to give it the supergoal of philanthropy… creators of the superintelligence decide to build it so that it serves only this select group of humans, rather than humanity in general…This could result… in a superintelligence whose top goal is the manufacturing of paperclips, with the […] The post IT WAS THE SOCKS BY DOUGLAS MOSER first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post IT WAS THE SOCKS BY DOUGLAS MOSER appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

    Patricia Cannon has been a Registered Nurse at UCSF since 2001. She has worked in cardiac critical care, neuro intensive care, hemeoncology, school nursing, and currently, in research. Her passion is her faith, photography, and the written word in all its forms. The post CROW HANGING OUT AT VISTA POINT BY PATRICIA CANNON first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post CROW HANGING OUT AT VISTA POINT BY PATRICIA CANNON appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

Spilling out over morning boxes the sleepiest Flowers languish — vanquish notions that greedy Time offers only three sublime wishes They thrice request steamy days lounging in Sun’s delicious gaze They turn curious faces to me — insist I too arch my silkiest petals Stretch long in hungry meadows forget Time ticks across my skin […] The post WAKING UP BESIDE EMILY BY DANA KINSEY first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post WAKING UP BESIDE EMILY BY DANA KINSEY appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

This poem moves a bicycle toward you on a milky day mid-mo(u)rning doves foraging for food These lines decide to walk the bike toward you across a city alight with anticipation heavy knowing they may never make it: your democracy miles from mine They may not cover them before night falls again Can you see […] The post IT’S A LOT TO ASK, JUNE JORDAN BY DANA KINSEY first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post IT’S A LOT TO ASK, JUNE JORDAN BY DANA KINSEY appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

Men groan, lifting and tugging at machines. Women knit. St. Justine has made a sweater of red and yellow wool. Women groan, tugging and lifting at machines. The sweater is given a little carrier, tucked inside like a small dog, a medium turtle, a large bird. You asked for help with your glasses. I tucked […] The post AT STUDIO 151 BY KELLEY WHITE first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post AT STUDIO 151 BY KELLEY WHITE appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more

I miss Bob’s. I miss Jim working the grill and June with the menu and even J.C. with the clean-up rag. I miss the swiss cheese omelet and the bacon on the side. I miss home fries. I miss the terrible coffee. I miss the tinny radio tuned to the all-Christmas-song station from October to […] The post BLUE PLATE SPECIAL BY KELLEY WHITE first appeared on The RavensPerch. The post BLUE PLATE SPECIAL BY KELLEY WHITE appeared first on The RavensPerch ..read more