our president

the kind of man egged on and emboldened by the laughs of the crowd
a suggestible man, but who feels good about himself and conveys that to others
and this his handlers know well

profligacy and simony

these words cropped up in my head just as I was waking this morning. wherefore?

Keyrie Eleison

or however it's spelled, and what does it mean? The phrase cropped up in a dream I had a few nights ago, in connection with light revealing a swath on a blue and white painting.

diner revery

melted butter
pads on the center
of each illustration
on the diner menu.
Something irresistible
something happening
Something becoming something else
What you wanted to happen
Inside you.
It was the
act of satiating Spun as
a decisive move
out of inertia
A U-turn of course.
Diners weren't very
profligate with released
energy.
They dealt in warm
squibs of possibility
ending in acquiescence.
The butter squares
softening and running
said it all.

dust to dust

from an inrush of heady harmony
to a poem about felt emotion
to a poem about poems
to a piece about poets
to a word for that
to a number for short
to 10101

a feast of touch-me-pops

or touch-a-me-pops, as Sevi calls them, all along the fence on either both sides of the Nethermeade arch bridge along the stream side. We reached in and popped scores of them--Papa pulled out fatties for Sevi's special delight. We placed some in her palm and she gently pressed them in touch-a-me-popcorn. After getting what I could I shook the bushes and fireworks of zingers flew every which way.

dragonflies in the botanic gardens

thousands of them buzzing around in the middle air above the cherry esplanade. Under the trees where we were, Sevi and I, they didn't much go. They must have been feasting on all the little bugs, as we didn't see any of those. Wonderful!

eggs o' Jesus

exegesis

fairies at the flume

When we walked to the Flume a few weeks ago Sevi insisted that it was to get magic from the fairies that would turn trolls into shadows. So we went right up on the rock above the black deep water and retrieved the magic and used some on the way home, throwing under the raised rootholes of trees, troll homes.

I can't for the wife of me...

my hasty rant to the Kerry campaign

PLEASE PLEASE READ THIS!!!!

The latest revelations about Bush's thinking himself above the law with regard to National Guard Service should be linked FORCEFULLY and RHETORICALLY with his stance in every area. PLEASE SEE Robert Byrd's quotation of him in his recent book in which he said "I'm the President, I don't have to say why, or answer to anyone" not exact words, but exactly to that effect. This point should be made, and made NOW. The poor man has no clear idea of the presidency as a public service--he is public servant no.1, and not emperor. If you jerk the chain of the American people with this lifelong display of arrogance on his part, and DEMONSTRATE his consistent arrogance in this regard, it WILL RESONATE with voters. This cuts to the core of what this country is about. We never wanted a king, and now we've got a poor idiot who was raised thinking that's what a president is. PLEASE make these points. AND make the point that he is really the man who WOULD BE KING---really just a puppet manipulated by the actual ideologues behind his government who are smarter, but so loathsome to the American mind they need a duped front man for their operations. For 4 years it has worked. We are relying on Kerry and Edwards to close the book on this dark chapter in American history.

"Whatever you do..."

Sevi's current favorite game. Where Papa says, "whatever you do, don't do X" and Sevi then goes and does X with relish. Even if it means brushing her teeth, putting on pajamas etc, as long as it is in defiance of Papa. Who said reverse psychology wasn't good for something. It did work like a dream while up in the Adks, but now the power of the game is fading. Still, we got a good week out of it.