Wondering when the other shoe will drop. The hammer will fall Wondering while my chicken cooks with rice Why others need a dime. A quart of milk. Ok. I am ok. Wondering when the fist will fall. At the hand that never strikes but may Wondering with my back to the wall Why others bleed. […]
Lynette C. Mullen
Posted inLetters + Opinion
What’s Right in Humboldt?
There has been a lot of attention paid lately to all that’s wrong in our isolated little community — the high crime rate, the struggling economy and more. But amid all that’s wrong, we also do some things right, and feeding people seems to be one of them. I recently took a tour of the […]
Posted inNews
Murder in Arcata
It was January of 1862 and Arcata’s last adult Native American resident, Lucy Romero, had been told her life was in danger but she and her children had nowhere to go. Indians in the mountains were being hunted like animals and those sent to the reservations risked starvation. Women faced the threat of rape and […]
Posted inArts + Scene
The awful thing about ants
They truck across my kitchen counter. Bathroom sink and floor. Occupy my home and breech parameters. The spray poison reeks And fails And I surrender.They find sustenance in the discards Hidden under my kitchen sink. And when a lone explorer climbs my walls or traverses my coffee table I marvel at the tiny feet. And […]