Monthly Archives: February 2012

Hallelujah! 14 c. Huzzah! 1573 Hooray! 1686 Wahoo! 1770 Glory be! 1816 Whopee! 1845 Yahoo! 1870 Whee! 1898 Hot dog! 1906 Yippee! 1914 Leap Day! 2012

Smoke from a chimney on a scribbled roof: a curly black line a pre-school proof of fire within of a hearth below in the purple dwelling we all bestow with love on our teacher with such delight! Later it’s apples … Continue reading →

Once I listened to some good advice beside a swimming hole in Vermont. My soaking blue jeans lost their spartan sparkle as Pat O’Malley’s face glistened like Athena’s. On the spot I changed into her boyfriend’s overalls and a Mexican … Continue reading →

Celebrate today our steaming cyclist’s journey, life’s complications, and simple egress from teeming thickets of all that is in the way.

Have you walked alone in the rain in June, bike on your shoulder both tires flat, and been glad of no-traffic on the rutty old road, of no supper-to-get-cold of no friends on-the-other-end to worry-where-is-he or eat-without-you and call you … Continue reading →

Mind Is Amazement. Monday Is Anticlimax. Milking It Always.

O table saw! I can’t give you away it seems. Since we grew to be such friends under a blue tarp last September, cutting custom jambs for the ones I kicked out, your dusty blade keeps returning. I thought I’d … Continue reading →