day of four birds:
1. blue feathers
and white
trapped in the privy
flying from screen door from screen door
until i hold one open
for it to fly out
2. unknown colors but
flapping about in the greenhouse
and finding its own way out
through the flue
3. the white head and tail
of an eagle flying north and west
seen out the kitchen sink window
4. mica identifies the type of bird – cedar waxwing
hanging out in swarms
in our cedar and plum and other backyard trees
on a page in the bird identification book
titled crested and berry-eating
(how i stopped the other day
in the back yard
just to look up to watch them
how i stop again today
this time knowing their name)
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the bright orange of
pumpkin
peeled and cubed then steamed until soft then
sent for a spin in the food processor
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smell of sweet pumpkin bread
rising out of the oven
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rationing the box of pecans
at the kitchen table
each bag zipped and labeled
with one of the twelve months
plus two bonus bags)
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mica in her dressup hat
and me in my city boots
laughing at the almost metallic (and saturated in hue) pink cloud
how it’s up there declaring
lookatme!!!! i’m pink!!!!!!!!!!!
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dinner:
tony’s baked roots (with soy sauce and a bit of mustard powder) and lentil loaf (home-canned ketchup baked in on top)
during which we laugh about
goats arranged/placed in trees
in morroco
by men who began to understand the tourists had a thing for snapping photos of goats in trees
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nightwalk from bear and alyssa’s place
(along gravel road/path)
mica points out the cookie dog constellationbut just before we get there
rachel points out a comet/shooting star in the sky
one so big that it allowed rachel to pause to consider if she was seeing what she really thought she was seeing
and then declare something about it
and only after all that do i finally look up
still to catch its glimmering tail
arcing into the west
and then again
as we near the parking lot
another glimmer/blaze before us
arcing towards earth but blazing up before it could ever land
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it is difficult to tell if the world has always been this way
(and important to understand that regardless of how i think the world is now or then,
the information i gather about the world is limited, especially when i am dependent on the media for this information
[especially when the media chooses which stories to cover
and which to overlook])
but somehow i imagine it hasn’t
and i think of these times
as the crest of a wave
and every time the people take the streets
my spirit is taking with them
Tunisian protesters clash with police following a demonstration against the country’s ruling Islamist Ennahda party in Siliana, northwest of Tunis. A general strike was called to protest against poverty and lack of development. – voice of america, day in photos
A student throws a rock toward riot policemen during a protest outside the National Autonomous University of Honduras in Tegucigalpa. Clashes erupted between student demonstrators and police in the Honduran capital after conservative ruling party candidate, Juan Hernandez, was declared the winner of the country’s tightly-contested presidential elections. – voice of america, day in photos
Protestors in Kyiv’s European Square demand that the Ukrainian government sign a trade deal with the European Union – voice of america, day in photos
A Palestinian demonstrator throws a petrol bomb towards Israeli border guards in the West Bank city of Hebron during a demonstration. Israeli security forces killed three Palestinian militants after attempting to arrest them near the West Bank city of Hebron, the Shin Bet internal security service and army said. – voice of america, day in photos
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