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sky.<br/> And to cross an interstate would take<br/> All afternoon. Pack a lunch! Stay awake!<br/> The trucks that use those roads would defy<br/> The imagination. Or, at least, mine.<br/> The actual place always lets you down.<br/> <br/> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2012/01/aaa-maps-at-that-scale-youd-see-name-of.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2012-01-05T16:13:00-05:00">4:13 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2012/01/aaa-maps-at-that-scale-youd-see-name-of.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=4237663292453720244&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2012/01/aaa-maps-at-that-scale-youd-see-name-of.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Tuesday, January 3, 2012</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="7741197451294815749"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7741197451294815749"> <h1>Serpentarium</h1> <br/> On a canoe trip through Okeefenokee,<br/> I plucked a bright green snake from a nearby bush<br/> And handed it (hey presto! ) to my young son:<br/> The awful majesty of fatherhood and luck!<br/> The park guide identified it and snuck <br/> It back into boring Nature where Fun<br/> Is as alien as Godzilla and green and lush.<br/> But for an instant, it all flowed from me. <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2012/01/serpentarium-on-canoe-trip-through.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2012-01-03T09:57:00-05:00">9:57 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2012/01/serpentarium-on-canoe-trip-through.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=7741197451294815749&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2012/01/serpentarium-on-canoe-trip-through.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Wednesday, December 28, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="3004106721460798501"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3004106721460798501"> <h1> The Disappointment of Rex the Wonder Dog</h1> <br/> One night, prior to circling his frigid bed,<br/> a German Shepherd confided to a malemute:<br/> -I was not always as you see me now.<br/> -No? -No, I once wore hard-soled shoes and shaved.<br/> I'd dreamed of being like the man for whom I slaved<br/> so well, that I could cast off the bow wow wow<br/> and put on clothes and went out on a toot<br/> with a friend. A night of putting on the dog, he said.<br/> <br/> <span class="foot">The Wrong Box, for reasons which have little to do<br/>with this poem, is necessary viewing.</span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/disappointment-of-rex-wonder-dog-one.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-12-28T11:47:00-05:00">11:47 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/disappointment-of-rex-wonder-dog-one.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=3004106721460798501&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/disappointment-of-rex-wonder-dog-one.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Sunday, December 11, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="2550788014868314589"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2550788014868314589"> <h1> My Bicycle: What Grandma Would Have Called a Wheel</h1> <br/> I’m sixty and when I ride in the heat<br/> My face turns mauve. Not a good color<br/> For a geezer. Actuarially<br/> I don’t have  a clue. But -- knock wood -- few hills.<br/> So, private virtue and the avoidance of spills<br/> Keeps me riding here on climate change's lee<br/> Side. I read the blogs, too, and their dolor<br/> Makes my head spin. The next step down? Just feet. <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-bicycle-im-sixty-and-when-i-ride-in.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-12-11T21:19:00-05:00">9:19 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-bicycle-im-sixty-and-when-i-ride-in.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=2550788014868314589&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-bicycle-im-sixty-and-when-i-ride-in.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="5003598587536396973"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5003598587536396973"> <br/> <h1> December 1966</h1> <br/> I remember, vaguely, the Christmas<br/> My great-grandmother broke her hip,<br/> And the dismal, silent drive to see her<br/> On Christmas day, and later, at home, sweeping<br/> Around the tree to not hear Grandma Davis weeping<br/> In the dining room. An old, old lady’s mother:<br/> I couldn’t think that far, then, nor on the trip<br/> To the graveyard in the cold of all that was.<br/> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-1966-i-remember-vaguely.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-12-11T21:15:00-05:00">9:15 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-1966-i-remember-vaguely.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=5003598587536396973&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/december-1966-i-remember-vaguely.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Thursday, December 8, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="1499348981201549435"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1499348981201549435"> <h1> The Mystery Story</h1> <br/> The body by the pool, the weapon on the ground,<br/> The police dog snuffles the crabbed, cupped hand<br/> Which the body said goodbye with. Evidence<br/> Like a Christmas card lost in all that wrapping.<br/> It lies here and thinks of birds, in maples singing,<br/> In flight, on wires, and settled on the fence<br/> That marks both Here and There. The police stand<br/> vaguely by and note nothing, not even the sound.<br> <br> <span class="foot">We watched a murder mystery last night.<br> The actor -- corpse -- lay with his head at the edge of water.<br> I always sympathise with the actors who have to play<br> corpses. The tiny size of their roles. Their discomfort. </span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/mystery-story-body-by-pool-weapon-on.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-12-08T11:40:00-05:00">11:40 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/mystery-story-body-by-pool-weapon-on.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=1499348981201549435&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/mystery-story-body-by-pool-weapon-on.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Tuesday, December 6, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="1838436681813736502"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1838436681813736502"> <h1> Father Returns</h1> <br/> And produces a boy like a puppy in a basket,<br/> but when he's gone, the thread unravels:<br/> children huddle and cuddle in the cupboard<br/> and Heathcliff never becomes a father.<br/> Oh, the mess Father left. As if an ogre<br/> roamed with their lives as his treasure hoard.<br/> What happened, back then, in Father's travels,<br/> so that she played with sex but never embraced its debt?<br/> <br/> <span class="foot">Sorry. This depends upon Wuthering Heights.<br/> I hope that people still read it.<br> The "she" is Emily Bronte, the author. </span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/father-returns-and-produces-boy-like.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-12-06T10:39:00-05:00">10:39 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/father-returns-and-produces-boy-like.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=1838436681813736502&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/father-returns-and-produces-boy-like.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Sunday, December 4, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="6776550333798562864"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6776550333798562864"> <h1> The British Museum</h1> <br/> Once inside, past the choleric ticket takers,<br/> There is an arena -- beneath skylights<br/> That need to be cleaned. In it are the marbles,<br/> Egyptians, and crowds. Somewhere, to our right,<br/> Are pickled nits, dinosaurs, and less light.<br/> To our left, are recorded bird warbles,<br/> Fish in trays, skunks, whales, odd sprites<br/> And homages to our redundant makers.<br/> <br/> <br/> <img height="40%" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://www.fosterandpartners.com/content/projects/0793/77556.jpg" width="80%"/> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/12/british-museum-once-inside-past.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" 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the poem unread.<br/> Sorry.</span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/buddha-mind-three-komodo-dragons-ate.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-11-29T12:30:00-05:00">12:30 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/buddha-mind-three-komodo-dragons-ate.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span 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class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="3747624311375156933"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3747624311375156933"> <h1>Camp Followers</h1> <br/> The laborer's red flannels have a seam of nits,<br/> His boots are wound with rope and their knot loops<br/> lay like rabbit ears. A hawk shadows where he sits.<br/> <br/> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/camp-followers-laborers-red-flannels.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-11-26T10:49:00-05:00">10:49 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/camp-followers-laborers-red-flannels.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=3747624311375156933&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/camp-followers-laborers-red-flannels.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Thursday, November 24, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="3729388354724885852"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3729388354724885852"> <h1> Pilgrims Progress</h1> <br/> It’s 1621, and the harvest is in.<br/> We’ve lived a year on fruit, tubers, shellfish,<br/> Seed corn, and so the harvest isn’t much,<br/> But hunger is our wedge into all that's here:<br/> Deliver us, O Lord, and cast out our fear.<br/> From the cries around us, we know our touch<br/> Means death to many, if that’s our wish,<br/> But we’ve come too far to fall as we begin. <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-its-1621-and-harvest-is-in.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-11-24T09:30:00-05:00">9:30 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-its-1621-and-harvest-is-in.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=3729388354724885852&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/thanksgiving-its-1621-and-harvest-is-in.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Tuesday, November 22, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="1859440736498991896"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1859440736498991896"> <h1> Mr. Coffee Nerves</h1> <br/> The orchestra stirs. The house lights dim.<br/> One cowboy steps away from his on-stage fire,<br/> rolls the brim of his hat and would start to sing, <br/> But the herd, always restless, has broken out!<br/> Stampede! Up the aisles! The audience shout<br/> But watch, poised to flee, anxiously standing<br/> by. (Good theater, yes? This is why they hire<br/> the best.) The tune resumes. We sit. It's a hymn.<br/> <br/> <span class="foot"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.lileks.com/institute/orphanage/orphans/cofnerv.jpg">Mr. Coffee Nerves</a></span> <br/> <span class="foot">As close to automatic writing as I get.</span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/mr.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-11-22T10:08:00-05:00">10:08 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" 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name="1187729691437022773"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1187729691437022773"> <br/> <h1> Outside Work</h1> <br/> There’s no way to turn raking leaves into fun.<br/> The wind in Fall is always up, and new leaves<br/> Come down from the trees and in from the street.<br/> Then, just after you find where leaves eddy to<br/> Naturally, bagging’s a bitch: holly pricks you<br/> Through gloves and pants, and nothing’s neat.<br/> Fate hates you, and you’re the one who grieves:<br/> The mind is a drama with an audience of one.<o:p><br/> </o:p> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span 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November. I peeled it from the tree.<br/> Most of the litter of death, we rarely see <br/> Due to the ordinary processes that run,<br/> The ones that keep bugs and microbes so well fed.<br/> But who would expect a hawk to lay so flat?<br/> <br/> <span class="foot"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/182234">Robinson Jeffers "Hurt Hawks".</a></span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/hawk-in-bushes-i-expected-body-with.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-11-10T12:36:00-05:00">12:36 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/hawk-in-bushes-i-expected-body-with.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=3063026520610125707&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/hawk-in-bushes-i-expected-body-with.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Tuesday, November 8, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="6772448215768408716"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6772448215768408716"> <h1> N.D. 1948-1982</h1> <br/> Weeks of it, then, months of it.<br/> Her weight fell, but the pain reached no limit.<br/> <br/> She was just an ordinary woman--<br/> worried, worn, and emptied again and again;<br/> <br/> but not released. No, not released.<br/> <br/> 2.<br/> <br/> The coming of this death, it's empty<br/> lack of dignity<br/> <br/> is worse than any word<br/> could say. My sister, my little bird....<br/> <br/> I remember long ago.<br/> <br/> 3.<br/> <br/> I want to say our memories<br/> are safe, beyond disease,<br/> <br/> but I won't stir them up in you.<br/> Our summer games are far away and few.<br/> <br/> What past startles through her sleep?<br/> <br/> 4.<br/> <br/> My sister, like Beardsley, once drew<br/> clever people. This passed too.<br/> <br/> She raised a beautiful son.<br/> Now hopes and all, one by one,<br/> <br/> are part of our hard and sudden prayers.<br/> <br/> 5.<br/> I haven't prayed well.<br/> For what heaven? From this hell?<br/> <br/> Only for the transfiguration of pain.<br/> May someone remain<br/> <br/> to bless us, who knows.<br/> <br/> <span class="foot">June 1982</span> <br/> <br/> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://home.windstream.net/res099c9/nancyportrait.jpg"/> <br/> <span class="foot">Picture from 1966. </span><br/> <span class="foot">Such a beautiful woman.</span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/n.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-11-08T12:42:00-05:00">12:42 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/n.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=6772448215768408716&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/n.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Wednesday, November 2, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="2951904900411792259"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2951904900411792259"> <h1> Place de La Concorde</h1> <br/> When we roll, the wooden wheels of the cart<br/> Bow slightly so that we wiggle a bit<br/> Like a butterfly in a breeze. The barest pause,<br/> From the grit of the cobbles, mimes the burr<br/> Of a military drum, and the crowd, in wonder,<br/> Breathe together and gather, the way a crone draws<br/> A rag around her neck, into a tight warm fit.<br/> The place becomes us, no more a thing apart.<br/> <br> <span class="foot">Louis XVI or Robespierre speaking. I can't decide.</span> <br/><br/> <img height="40%" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_-IVhqyyEhE8/SzQY4uPf3mI/AAAAAAAAADQ/Ffh82pqZWUs/s1600/place+de+la+revolution.JPG" title="Place de la Revolution" width="60%"/> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/la-place-de-la-concorde-wooden-wheels.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-11-02T12:27:00-04:00">12:27 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/la-place-de-la-concorde-wooden-wheels.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=2951904900411792259&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/11/la-place-de-la-concorde-wooden-wheels.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Friday, October 28, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="1538531059547430097"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1538531059547430097"> <h1> Old Man River</h1> <br/> A rebounder landed on my foot. I was 17<br/> And getting tired of any game with a ball.<br/> I pulled off my shoe and the toe pointed west<br/> While the foot went north, out of phase.<br/> <br/> That’s the way it would stay until the End of Days,<br/> The little bone as loose as an old lady’s breast.<br/> I stubbed it last night, in the dark in the hall,<br/> 4 times in my 6 trips to the latrine.<br/> <br/> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/old-man-river-rebounder-landed-on-it.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-10-28T15:23:00-04:00">3:23 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/old-man-river-rebounder-landed-on-it.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=1538531059547430097&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/old-man-river-rebounder-landed-on-it.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="4698678605013225588"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-4698678605013225588"> <h1> Pastoral Landscape</h1> <br/> There are ladies with hats that perch like spiders,<br/> Horses heads bowed to turf, a gentleman's gloved<br/> hand picking at his brocade vest, and a sunny glade,<br/> But its trees that worry the painter's brush.<br/> <br/> He painted what was there, what, in time, would crush<br/> The eye since, from above, all of France seems to be made<br/> Of trees. The canvas brightly says we've loved<br/> The wrong things, the wrong selves, the wrong others. <br/> <br/> <img title="Not the painting of memory" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ahj0Otrr0Pg/TZ_sJQ0edcI/AAAAAAAAAeU/RqDkJV17mII/s400/claude_lorrain_-_landscape_with_merchants.jpg"/> <br><br> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/leaves-there-are-ladies-with-hats-as.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-10-28T12:56:00-04:00">12:56 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/leaves-there-are-ladies-with-hats-as.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=4698678605013225588&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/leaves-there-are-ladies-with-hats-as.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Wednesday, October 26, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="6497702950579982918"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6497702950579982918"> <h1>Journey without Maps</h1> <br> The wasp has a dodecahedron face, a waist<br/> Like a pipet and -- in the full page of the Compton<br/> Encylopedia --eyes as bright as a mirror<br/> In a surgery. When it stings, its twitch<br/> Is quick, like a knitter purling a stitch<br/> In a knot, and links its face almost with its rear.<br/> All as impersonal as a death in flu season,<br/> As if God’s restraint of pain just got misplaced.<br> <br> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://www.whitelotusbeading.com/images/trundodeca.jpg" title="Sting Me, Elmo"> <br> <span class="foot">The poem was originally about Africa. Hence the title. <br> I don't know anything about Africa, but I know I'm terrified of wasps.</span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/journey-without-maps-wasp-has.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-10-26T16:33:00-04:00">4:33 PM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/journey-without-maps-wasp-has.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=6497702950579982918&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/journey-without-maps-wasp-has.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Tuesday, October 25, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="2832964492812087324"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2832964492812087324"> <h1> Icaroi</h1> <br/> <h2> The Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner</h2> I would turn my skin, so white and pale,<br/> into something beautiful (not macabre<br/> or historical) like papyrus<br/> and write there the truth: I live in fear.<br/> Tiring fear! that soon, or now, something near<br/> will turn dark, with a minimum of fuss,<br/> and no turning back or show of power.<br/> With death so close, my skin should be a sail.<br/> <br/> <span class="foot">--after the movie by Werner Herzog<br/> Steiner was a wood carver and a competitive ski "sailer".<br/> The ski sailers of the 1970s flew far beyond the <br/> artificially constrained limits of Olympic skiers.<br/> He's currently a gardener in Sweden. The lucky stiff.<br> We've never met -- the voice in the poem is fictional. <br/>12-21-81</span><br/> <h2> The Right Stuff</h2> Beyond a certain point, atmosphere fails --<br/> as its own skin fails the salt burned child --<br/> until the gasping jet chokes on nothing<br/> but freedom pursued to a sacrificial end.<br/> <br/> The siren sounds our hurry to descend:<br/> a welcome home of skintight fire, distant bubbling,<br/> and desert quiet intent on being mild.<br/> When we are done, a single echo wails.<br/> <br/> <span class="foot">In the movie's penultimate scene, Chuck Yeager<br/> crashes in the desert an experimental plane by flying higher<br/> than a mere jet could go.<br/> Another Icarus.</span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/icaroi-ecstasy-of-sculptor-steiner-i.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-10-25T09:03:00-04:00">9:03 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/icaroi-ecstasy-of-sculptor-steiner-i.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=2832964492812087324&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/icaroi-ecstasy-of-sculptor-steiner-i.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="1749053213554836148"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1749053213554836148"> <h1> Q & A w/ Tiresias in Hades</h1> <br/> -Which was worse? To change your sex or lose your sight?<br/> -What’s Sex? Women have clung to dreadful men<br/> From the start. And men only love to have their way.<br/> As for sight, what’s worth seeing so many times?<br/> What was worst was to know God’s crimes<br/> Before He chose to wreak them, to wake each day<br/> and have the long-seen future repeat again and again,<br/> Swarming out of the sun and turning day to night.<br/> <br/> <span class="foot">October 11, 2011<br/> Several months ago, I read one of those weird internet polls -- if you had to switch either your race or sex, which would you do? Nobody said they'd switch sex. Poor Tiresias did -- rather he had it changed for him -- and then had 2 kids as a woman. When the gods changed him back to a man, he screamed at the sky, "Pick a lane, you bastards!"</span> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/q-w-tiresias-in-hades-which-was-worse.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-10-25T08:59:00-04:00">8:59 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/q-w-tiresias-in-hades-which-was-worse.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=1749053213554836148&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/q-w-tiresias-in-hades-which-was-worse.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="3320062992869441035"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3320062992869441035"> <h1>The Grouper and the Bat</h1> <br> The Bat, the grouper half-explained, could not look down.<br> -Look down? the other grouper asked, his mouth an O.<br> -For fear of falling, you see. The other didn't.<br> -In my dreams, he screams in terror. -Yes, I see.<br> -It's instinct, not desire, that makes him go Eeeee!<br> and open wide for the bugs. -Could you give me a hint<br> about the bugs? the other asked. -You ought to know<br> I can't shake the feeling I'm about to drown.<br> <br> <img title="Look down?" height="30%" width="60%" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Georgia_Aquarium_-_Giant_Grouper.jpg/541px-Georgia_Aquarium_-_Giant_Grouper.jpg"> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/grouper-and-bat-bat-grouper-half.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-10-25T08:57:00-04:00">8:57 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/grouper-and-bat-bat-grouper-half.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=3320062992869441035&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/grouper-and-bat-bat-grouper-half.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="7225883532211238123"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-7225883532211238123"> <h1>Love Poem</h1> <br/> I believed you all & I still believe<br/> & each belief begat a girl. Oh, yes!<br/> Tonite there isn't time to lie to or seduce<br/> the blonde upstairs, a California nurse<br/> who smiled & listened & cued & worse:<br/> all of it a dream, straight from Dr. Seuss,<br/> as if she were an egg & and I was less<br/> & there...I want to be young & never leave.<br/> <br/> <div style="clear: both;"></div> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"> Posted by <span class="fn"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/profile/17966839006518642902" rel="author" title="author profile"> Jeffrey Davis </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-timestamp"> at <a class="timestamp-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/love-poem-i-believed-you-all-i-still.html" rel="bookmark" title="permanent link"><abbr class="published" title="2011-10-25T08:56:00-04:00">8:56 AM</abbr></a> </span> <span class="post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/love-poem-i-believed-you-all-i-still.html#comment-form" onclick="">0 comments</a> </span> <span class="post-icons"> <span class="item-control blog-admin pid-11757055"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=7822494885351237869&postID=7225883532211238123&from=pencil" title="Edit Post"> <img alt="" class="icon-action" height="18" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://img2.blogblog.com/img/icon18_edit_allbkg.gif" width="18"/> </a> </span> </span> <span class="post-backlinks post-comment-link"> <a class="comment-link" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957/http://lendmealookingglass.blogspot.com/2011/10/love-poem-i-believed-you-all-i-still.html#links">Links to this post</a> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-2"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-3"><span class="post-location"> </span> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="date-outer"> <h2 class="date-header"><span>Tuesday, October 18, 2011</span></h2> <div class="date-posts"> <div class="post-outer"> <div class="post hentry"> <a name="2580306662132693847"></a> <div class="post-header"> <div class="post-header-line-1"></div> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2580306662132693847"> <img href="http://www.ket.org/mixm/images/220_ballet.jpg"/> <br/> <h1> Lost in the Fun House</h1> <br/> <h2>(prelude)</h2> I remember when all I had to do was read<br/> to you, pat your back as you slept, make a face,<br/> silly noises...when my nonsense didn't need sense,<br/> and the carnival of my love was all.<br/> <br/> Now you're camped in your room down the hall,<br/> and when we pass, it's like strangers across a fence,<br/> and my sideshow of faults is empty space.<br/> I should have known that love isn't all we'd need.<br/> <br/> <h2>1. Storm from the Gulf</h2> The wind flattens Nellie's fur as she herds,<br/> her back to the land, the gulls above like kites.<br/> She doesn't understand that birds won't pen,<br/> and won't leave and don't complain. They sing<br/> the storm closer -- caws and effect. Rising<br/> tide waters bring the junk in -- sardine tin, <br/> magazine cover, fishing line: delights<br/> like the answered prayers of empty words.<br/> <br/> <img height="40%" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images16/BorderCollieWynne7Years3.JPG" width="40%" title="Mach schnell, keeds."/> <br/> <h2>2. Comedy and Tragedy</h2> Rain blew up against the condo's shingles --<br/> the storm a placid placer miner, clearing<br/> us out for the gold of holding this place alone.<br/> But we hunkered down and got a video:<br/> The Thin Man, Charade, something we know<br/> enough to love, something loved for being known,<br/> the last summer before child rearing<br/> became child losing, parents as lonely as singles.<br/> <br/> <h2>3. Beauty</h2> You dawdle like every teenager -- mirrors<br/> and the world look back like you think you look.<br/> One minute like a ballerina poised upon an egg,<br/> next the egg, waiting for the crack to come.<br/> You are, of course, beautiful, as winsome<br/> as any woman a father ever loved, but you beg<br/> me to say nothing, and so I don't, and write a book,<br/> full of the words I've never said and all my fears.<br/> <br/> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20120106153957im_/http://www.ket.org/mixm/images/220_ballet.jpg"/> <br/> <h2>4. Generation</h2> Slugs beset the roses, leaf rot and root rot,<br/> even the bees are dying -- a menacing aphid<br/> undoes their wings. A social insect with no place<br/> to go. My prayer for you, whenever I pray,<br/> is that you'll live a little more each day.<br/> This one day is all we get, one little race<br/> we run, one plot in which our flowers are hid.<br/> For you, my dear, here's one forget-me-not.<br/> <br/> <span class="foot">1995</span><br/> <span class="foot"> Teenage years. What would we do without them? 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