tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-883686392566196962024-03-13T18:29:04.668+00:00Catching LinesIs it poetry, though?Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-46264919691468464682023-04-30T13:58:00.008+01:002023-04-30T14:39:24.847+01:00Paint Poem<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirty-9/" target="_blank">Day Thirty</a></h1><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Wmv-6KqsWipJ9XJRAR4m84dk9ZtxcjDREqFoMVIH6mcaqxIU1LCuBTuFAewk9ZO4S6Wv9yglsb57IjsDDl36mRMPmfNUTXChdrg9k00BCdG3A0yi6q2vhLDBrKb1tWF5poWSxLrIaXBqHQq-UFer3kozRiE1r-3Aw65j9vesx3rgQzysBLIxw6CKpQ/s4080/20230415_155548.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2296" data-original-width="4080" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7Wmv-6KqsWipJ9XJRAR4m84dk9ZtxcjDREqFoMVIH6mcaqxIU1LCuBTuFAewk9ZO4S6Wv9yglsb57IjsDDl36mRMPmfNUTXChdrg9k00BCdG3A0yi6q2vhLDBrKb1tWF5poWSxLrIaXBqHQq-UFer3kozRiE1r-3Aw65j9vesx3rgQzysBLIxw6CKpQ/w460-h259/20230415_155548.jpg" width="460" /></a></div><br /><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I like a poem because it's not like a painting.</span></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Because I'll confidently cradle something</span></blockquote></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">stainless;</span> hold the exceptional eye of it,</blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">which is sarsen grey. It's accurate masonry.</span></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A poem is trapezoidal.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It will sit on the ground, you can walk</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">around, point prosodic</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">right at the solidity of the stanza.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The straight line in a meter, go -</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">run your thumb assuredly</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">all along the perfect surface;</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Any line with a defect</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">lies forgotten in the quarry.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That's why I like a poem. At least</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in theory, shaped pure and</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">fine-finished as a citadel.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But I wonder if Machu Picchu thinks</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- or even knows - about the faults</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in her foundation. She's sitting up there</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on the nerve of a natural defect,</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and she don't give a damn.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So I did some painting, to be like the Inca. </span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To be painted, myself, whimsical-like.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And the acrylics were so alien, they</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">were such a clamour of colour, they</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">were howling! All striving - </span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Idiots! - mucking and muddling</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and setting themselves too previous.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I almost kicked over the easel.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But, like the Inca, I learned</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a bit about building. About drainage.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I began to see the sky bloom purple,</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">fruit ripening in stone,</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">an uncertainty of green in the grass.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I built something new, and I found</span> </div></blockquote></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div>I did not so much mind the cracks. </div></blockquote></span></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Okay, it's a little skew whiff.</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">My brush, he forgets the meter;</span> </div></blockquote></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div>only knows a ruffled rhythm </div></blockquote></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div>of colour, that might?</div></blockquote></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div>breathe life to a sarsen stone.</div></blockquote></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Even, perhaps, in purple tones,</span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">refute the sky and its blueness. </span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So step back, squint your eyes; </span></div></blockquote></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It looks just like a poem.</span></div></blockquote></span></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p><br /></p></div>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-69832610845778710752023-04-29T17:18:00.001+01:002023-04-29T17:18:04.260+01:00The Underestimated Lettuce<p><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-nine-9/" target="_blank">Day Twenty-Nine</a></h1><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hLn0sTfHvkIlipwNm68HsE7Hui7DZDgoWRt8j1jyfld4QBV9CU8KpwWDWUcXO8BSXd-_4Mhq6GHQucwQxElbNNZt73ixGGAE73n8ELaE0AFCY1rmImUDN4J4A9lUeJKvFgfZJSPLlU3z1Df2Wr7RRrpTGsTpmbaOVTz8F7kaXWxvMHFUdBqWlsohWA/s950/4783624.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="950" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6hLn0sTfHvkIlipwNm68HsE7Hui7DZDgoWRt8j1jyfld4QBV9CU8KpwWDWUcXO8BSXd-_4Mhq6GHQucwQxElbNNZt73ixGGAE73n8ELaE0AFCY1rmImUDN4J4A9lUeJKvFgfZJSPLlU3z1Df2Wr7RRrpTGsTpmbaOVTz8F7kaXWxvMHFUdBqWlsohWA/s320/4783624.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">People call me</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Underestimated Lettuce</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not out loud but</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I see it in the way</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They discard me from their burger at the barbecue</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-47123687412559751222023-04-28T19:22:00.004+01:002023-04-28T19:44:59.195+01:00An Uncoupling<p><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-eight-9/" target="_blank">Day Twenty-Eight</a></h1><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiGmf5hT05GtljI2AAzmGNOQISlUvCQynJWyafepq8qG4ygxUG2GCNzkHpr6vc69K_k2tLoX7aI5ZpIi8K7Z5ajuybQykicP7cTwlXEVt2SupNAVJEIX0ZLtMbo7aFapXAFjfyWK2bfKPHHS0U8gWLvns-yrEcym4xJbQtaOv6zsINGLnRVet7bB25Q/s950/5941979.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="950" height="135" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRiGmf5hT05GtljI2AAzmGNOQISlUvCQynJWyafepq8qG4ygxUG2GCNzkHpr6vc69K_k2tLoX7aI5ZpIi8K7Z5ajuybQykicP7cTwlXEVt2SupNAVJEIX0ZLtMbo7aFapXAFjfyWK2bfKPHHS0U8gWLvns-yrEcym4xJbQtaOv6zsINGLnRVet7bB25Q/w468-h135/5941979.jpg" width="468" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With the tiniest throbs and wobbles,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the Moon is slipping from our grasp.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Incandescent with rage but</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">carefully swept clean.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With a very precise curve,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">she might make herself invisible</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or a puff of distant gossamer,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">perfectly arrayed for the creation of stars.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She has suddenly found out about the wind,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">setting hurricanes to spin off like tops.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In some sense, gravity does not exist.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It makes the Moon no less interesting,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or odd, just more explicable.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The work of science is at an end,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">like confessing a murder.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">How stupid of me not to have thought of it -</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the single best idea that anyone ever had;</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to merely predict future events exactly.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She won't reach the Oort cloud for another ten thousand years.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;">Assembled from notes in Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything.</span></p><p><br /></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-7646749842836009482023-04-28T00:18:00.004+01:002023-04-28T03:07:15.057+01:00The Fox of Gluttony<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-seven-9/" target="_blank">Day Twenty-Seven</a></h1><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">It had been a hot day</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And Lizzy was glad she'd worn linen.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Having put in a jolly good shift, </span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">soon,</span></span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">the sun would be heading for bed</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>and the blackbirds,</span> </span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">with the conclusion of their encores,</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">sang<i> Goodnight, God bless.</i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Then, a peculiar quietude</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">slunk into the evening.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">As though the venerable ash</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">had taken up, lightly, a knife and</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">crystal flute, and tinkle-tapped the day.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">There was not a soul at the bus stop.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The air hung, as if trampolining.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Into this stillness, there sauntered</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">a fox. Brazen as the moon is full and</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">russet, with a deadpan panache.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">From the clasp of her jaw was slung</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">an extraordinarily plump hen.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The fox noted Lizzy by the bus stop.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">And seeing there were no buses</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">nor cars, nor dogs, nor children,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">and seeing that the dusk was ripe for walking,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">she stepped oh-so softly into twilight,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">taking home her remarkably fat chicken.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><br /></p></blockquote><p><br /></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-88142241939268894592023-04-26T11:50:00.002+01:002023-04-26T22:15:01.095+01:00Portrait of an Un-known Woman<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-six-9/" target="_blank">Day Twenty-Six</a></h1><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLOJyEAATHXL724Kq-fdhfDrwuzmxz32KFQ6wG0pdzibR1fJdKuMaqgshf6U6JpY8ejVwk_qKzfKgEBF-gZp-iU_69HZ_LLf-I2jCk5r_KUTl0sqm0mhDaIaqQzP5jmzn5SF3rTsZ5AuH_iAC_kdGX3KwCzPB_-LDOS5W2qjG2xUF5OUpYRBT1jgy3fQ/s256/5721597few.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="256" data-original-width="255" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLOJyEAATHXL724Kq-fdhfDrwuzmxz32KFQ6wG0pdzibR1fJdKuMaqgshf6U6JpY8ejVwk_qKzfKgEBF-gZp-iU_69HZ_LLf-I2jCk5r_KUTl0sqm0mhDaIaqQzP5jmzn5SF3rTsZ5AuH_iAC_kdGX3KwCzPB_-LDOS5W2qjG2xUF5OUpYRBT1jgy3fQ/s1600/5721597few.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Let me exhibit a woman,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">it's not important who.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Notice her hair has altered since</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">it was familiar with my fingers.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Her cheek is very bare, due</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">to the removal of my thumb.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Don't you think it's troubling, how</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">her glacier eye will not meet mine?</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Just forget about who she is, and</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">don't ask what made this</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">wrinkle manifest.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All I know is a cruelty</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">around her mouth,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">always asking</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Why did you not kiss me?</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p> </p><p><br /></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-46373494851387290352023-04-25T20:11:00.006+01:002023-04-26T17:04:57.712+01:00Cactus Flower<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-five-9/" target="_blank">Day Twenty-Five</a></h1><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEpN79MXY9ucTVKqWqjV8HmkMi9-0mCnLuMX8yMhivzHHWxwKC2gOSv3sIYzLmcKD3B_-rnO1nKkwjszJfludub7u1luXEPVmAZuOdFinZEOWuRz808TslBXhaca5mUTNP1FTAhSWF2IxmgJCKKo3X8KPIvNI4OYTPLc-14--HpuIwSzQAITqcA2RWvw/s2703/20230421_140217.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2271" data-original-width="2703" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEpN79MXY9ucTVKqWqjV8HmkMi9-0mCnLuMX8yMhivzHHWxwKC2gOSv3sIYzLmcKD3B_-rnO1nKkwjszJfludub7u1luXEPVmAZuOdFinZEOWuRz808TslBXhaca5mUTNP1FTAhSWF2IxmgJCKKo3X8KPIvNI4OYTPLc-14--HpuIwSzQAITqcA2RWvw/s320/20230421_140217.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I'd lain so long, bones in the sand,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">desolate. Bloodless. How - </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">a morning mutes the half-light</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">(just twinkling) 'til</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">the detonation of a blackbird.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Such a fury/joy eruption, I've</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">not felt since I was startled</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">by the cactus flower.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Clarion plume from the habit</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">of a Mandarin duck, fanning</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">an eye (sudden) at the sun.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">And I blazed orange,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">like the cock-of-the-rock, and</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">gnashed my teeth white-</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">hot, delirious with</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">the waxy fat of a succulent</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">squeezed between my fingers</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">(juice running).</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Come dusk, the show was over.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The flower left me</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">mute as the morning,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">A palm full of spines.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-3871595476371500922023-04-24T17:55:00.011+01:002023-04-24T21:00:59.353+01:00Q Review<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-four-9/" target="_blank">Day Twenty-Four</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJgEt386_mWLzsl2k2SbZOS3lFtSvM5xApuxLxceRlmgwLIvZhfm-PT712nOqKEwC2Vth7rLSlNQhMgshhrqJH-9dZcSbIviNGkGDcYTwrdEvEiJIERa1lM-Bk2huPJDy_y642-_eYg8R9RzGTdOCI0Ikh1OqUDFHZNYl_kMERPn95PwpGqYPoV9NW-g/s489/20120201_fg01.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="474" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJgEt386_mWLzsl2k2SbZOS3lFtSvM5xApuxLxceRlmgwLIvZhfm-PT712nOqKEwC2Vth7rLSlNQhMgshhrqJH-9dZcSbIviNGkGDcYTwrdEvEiJIERa1lM-Bk2huPJDy_y642-_eYg8R9RzGTdOCI0Ikh1OqUDFHZNYl_kMERPn95PwpGqYPoV9NW-g/w405-h418/20120201_fg01.jpg" width="405" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Hello and welcome</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">to the Capital Letter Review</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>The issue </span><span>is Q.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">A letter of élan</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">accented French</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">with an august axis</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">distinguished from your</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">humdrum Cs or Es.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">The undisputed</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">aristocracy of alphabet.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">But we're so font-full,</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>some </span><span>have begun</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span>to doubt this </span><span>heritage,</span> </span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">f</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">eeling words</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">containing Q</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">carry a certain pretence.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Younger generations</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">increasingly observe</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">its reliance on <b style="font-style: italic;">u</b>.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Let's look at Qs on the market:</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span>The</span><span> Georgian<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span>Q</span></span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">It sits, a</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">doltish dog, asking</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><i>Shall I fetch a</i> <i><b>u</b>?</i></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: large;"><span>The </span><span>Courier Q</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Just look at this loafer, this</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Four-twenty surfer, just</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Go get a job</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">(and a <b><i>u</i></b>).</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Old-man</span><span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"> Arial Q</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">,</span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"> who</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">has strayed the nursing home</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">stick-leaning, wondering</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><i>where'd I put my </i><b style="font-style: italic;">u</b><i>?</i></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Our quarterly review has qualms</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">About this quaint and quirky quantity, it</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Hardly qualifies quintessential, say,</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Even within this quick quintuple, it's</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Quietly become quite antiquated.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Let us be honest</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">with letters</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">it's all about character.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">This convoluted O, so</span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">co-dependent is</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">redundant and rare but</span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: medium;">overabundant;</span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">It's hardly worth</span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">waiting in line.</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">How Q pales in the</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span><span>high-kick </span><span>dynamic</span></span> </span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">of wonderkid K</span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">Awarded five-stars in September.</span></div></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-76462011739373652532023-04-23T20:55:00.003+01:002023-04-24T20:59:05.450+01:00 Which never vulgar eye would again behold<p><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-three-9/" target="_blank">Day Twenty-Three</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-u3kfOpa9HDdbWq5vY_tjJZj4PMf31gBVhtTLCPJD7XRMjh5nyfkNt4Wtx-y2j6u2_k1NZtTaUaIv5HHHkBsZX1wyX1uEk5S288k_V8oalSJlqy9-8RqtpB-E-nmknmN806ethXEyHlo3K2RilT2dfCp6sOLqBbbfQ0jCUd-ELsBMIrNm4kgC3sXTQ/s826/640px-Relief_Fragment_Depicting_Atum_and_Hatshepsut_MET_DP116039.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC-u3kfOpa9HDdbWq5vY_tjJZj4PMf31gBVhtTLCPJD7XRMjh5nyfkNt4Wtx-y2j6u2_k1NZtTaUaIv5HHHkBsZX1wyX1uEk5S288k_V8oalSJlqy9-8RqtpB-E-nmknmN806ethXEyHlo3K2RilT2dfCp6sOLqBbbfQ0jCUd-ELsBMIrNm4kgC3sXTQ/s320/640px-Relief_Fragment_Depicting_Atum_and_Hatshepsut_MET_DP116039.jpg" width="248" /></a></div><br /><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I.</span></h4></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am Foremost of Noble Ladies</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Hatshepsut, of the</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They call mine a female kingship;</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Fool, History claims me</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As the first of His Great Women.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the Valley of the Kings,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am obliged to wear a beard.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">II.</span></h4></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am Sacagawea</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Indentured to a useless man</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And married to</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">An undertaking of men, who</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Concern themselves with maps</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And botony. My only office is</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The daily prevention of their murders</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">By the many deadly perils</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of the Bitterroot Mountains.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">This will be known</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As the Lewis and Clark Expedition.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><h4 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">III.</span></h4></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I was barely given provenance of <i>Mrs.</i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The remainder of my name</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Drowning in the drink</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With my no-good husband.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So, as with any bravery</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">or wit that was mine,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Whatever I was Christened is now lost.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For two hundred years</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">he lurked in a ledger</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Before being digitised.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-79403288551794052702023-04-22T13:47:00.005+01:002023-04-22T17:58:44.266+01:00Sandwiches<h2 style="text-align: center;"><br /></h2><h2 style="text-align: left;"></h2><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkR-Pk1sjHf1YJ64jojj3j_cPNerfamurMl9BqAQs4GpZJ4K86P5zIf5p6o2ZkKcpS1zT5b8fVvQKaS0zEE5u348t2gIzdTj7VZaitH3iQjajRvSaFPw6K9sxn90s4Utj52jWgH9WFh_DZB2ExpJ4mEV952CjWe3RsINKzMu72OJrdWZ-2NAUwK355xA/s950/5850118.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="950" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkR-Pk1sjHf1YJ64jojj3j_cPNerfamurMl9BqAQs4GpZJ4K86P5zIf5p6o2ZkKcpS1zT5b8fVvQKaS0zEE5u348t2gIzdTj7VZaitH3iQjajRvSaFPw6K9sxn90s4Utj52jWgH9WFh_DZB2ExpJ4mEV952CjWe3RsINKzMu72OJrdWZ-2NAUwK355xA/s320/5850118.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I love sammitches, me</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I'm in love with 'em</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you don't like sammitches</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You're doin' 'em wrong</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I know a little girl</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Obsessed, putting pegs</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">in a pot. Too many, and</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I'm the same with sammitches</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I'll stuff 'em right full</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">'til the lid won't go on</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Do you want to hear</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">my tip - do you - my</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Prime directive,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Premier league,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Numero uno</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Tip? For making</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">top-notch</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tip-top</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sammitches?</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">'kay I'll tell you and -</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- I'm telling you, this</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">will help. You shall think</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">no more - of</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">lonely, long-tailed</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Snow Leopards</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Or all those hooked</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">on meth -</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You'll only think <i>omg</i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I'm so wholly glad</span></i></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of reading</span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>a delicious tip </i><i>of toasting</i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sliced sammitch bread, on</span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>one side only -</i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><b><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">and the toastiness goes on the inside!</span></b></i></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><br /></p></blockquote><p><i><b><br /></b></i></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-11206175373111986922023-04-22T12:06:00.004+01:002023-04-22T12:07:23.039+01:00I never speak but words escape<div class="o-vr o-vr_12x" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 60px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="c-feature" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.231; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="c-feature-bd" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="o-poem isActive" data-view="PoemView" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-two-9/" target="_blank">Day Twenty-Two</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigaIC5bVMXUy6Az8EBJWbOcgJALfd0rssrqGXRl0TD0F4eviuAcAjG_QFcU8X62MBrq_MY4SW3RqqihJiJooxJPWX58rHvZG5yNvjA4XFgju1YKoqb9rH3Q57Rybm_9XMupwAnLR5FCwNhdHPJ_l-uGHGxXSiyFMlktmG6SrVdhhAD0EuTBVb9FiVxSg/s235/2294682.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="234" data-original-width="235" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigaIC5bVMXUy6Az8EBJWbOcgJALfd0rssrqGXRl0TD0F4eviuAcAjG_QFcU8X62MBrq_MY4SW3RqqihJiJooxJPWX58rHvZG5yNvjA4XFgju1YKoqb9rH3Q57Rybm_9XMupwAnLR5FCwNhdHPJ_l-uGHGxXSiyFMlktmG6SrVdhhAD0EuTBVb9FiVxSg/s1600/2294682.jpg" width="235" /></a></div></div></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I never speak</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">but rather</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">words escape</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a cut of blood -</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a sudden exhalation -</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of flying uncertainty.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I never think</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">as traffic bound</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">by systematic</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">thoroughfares, but</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I careen - gawky</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">at the peddles -</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">only to catch up later.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Shaped from <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48185/i-never-hear-the-word-escape-144" target="_blank">I never hear the word “Escape”, by Emily Dickinson</a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div><div class="o-grid" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro, Garamond, Baskerville, "Baskerville Old Face", "Hoefler Text", "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="o-grid-col o-grid-col_10of12" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: 638.359px;"></div></div></div>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-61663641603255006002023-04-21T13:16:00.005+01:002023-04-21T18:18:33.438+01:00Confusion / Calm<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-one-8/" target="_blank">Day Twenty-One</a></h1><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxnUhQdJx_vVtofZKBxxvQRkNPnl8NrM-d91jaO8tynd9Q2wIQE6o4HsSWTSrwaNWwhH2GmAXqfv444S_w5IM0RJs_AhCftXsI7dMZ9zN3omg0pActnpKRK4lbIqYgXO3FUqrz3-jxlESyoC64xgcCTzj4578Rv2_nMPQrj7RtPM6gbYLtNcZjgWggqw/s950/6043229.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="534" data-original-width="950" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxnUhQdJx_vVtofZKBxxvQRkNPnl8NrM-d91jaO8tynd9Q2wIQE6o4HsSWTSrwaNWwhH2GmAXqfv444S_w5IM0RJs_AhCftXsI7dMZ9zN3omg0pActnpKRK4lbIqYgXO3FUqrz3-jxlESyoC64xgcCTzj4578Rv2_nMPQrj7RtPM6gbYLtNcZjgWggqw/w508-h164/6043229.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In scatter-time</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">moments,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">swelling yellow-</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">olive odium.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Or the green-</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">pea quease</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of scarlet rising,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If every</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">sleep-fiend</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">smother-blue</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">night shade</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">crawls, tight</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">violet at</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">your collar,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Feel the breeze</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">with this;</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They are rainbows</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">tailing rainfall.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Light, in</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">the squall.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">See /</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Swallow</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">this c</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">ool</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Strawb'ry blush.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The h</span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">armonite,</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Forget-Me-Not,</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sea-Greenity</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of it all.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Permit</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">a breadth</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">of rainbow</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">overlooping.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You're okay.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-86181774645010103492023-04-20T14:26:00.010+01:002023-04-20T22:20:42.565+01:00Proto-Motorola<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twenty-10/" target="_blank">Day Twenty</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwUsl0DtoIXdM8Q1RdgBIfqZNRPyejp9LCBYqkim9t3yC7EiILiC0vivpAk0dDZAF2FRSPhJt88RiHjYHUbQmTXI12A_u4AKVo82RUzXig9gtw95crsWlOY37S6UcZEqgBJFwgDpaZdx8o8sHdGVgxB8DdrAKnC8i-MOk25YuzfNxppctVvsYkGuwaTA/s664/hacilar-fantastic-pottery.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="664" data-original-width="461" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwUsl0DtoIXdM8Q1RdgBIfqZNRPyejp9LCBYqkim9t3yC7EiILiC0vivpAk0dDZAF2FRSPhJt88RiHjYHUbQmTXI12A_u4AKVo82RUzXig9gtw95crsWlOY37S6UcZEqgBJFwgDpaZdx8o8sHdGVgxB8DdrAKnC8i-MOk25YuzfNxppctVvsYkGuwaTA/w269-h388/hacilar-fantastic-pottery.png" width="269" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;">Fantastic style designs on pottery</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;">from Hacilar. Image from Yakar 2005.</span></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The ancients believed</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That culture was</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Construed by pot</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The trash</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From which folk sipped</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">How kooky!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Moonstruck, the</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Levantine Fantastic</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Geometric Halaf</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">What misplaced faith</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They put</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In the Wadi Rabah</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We have calculated</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There was no Khirokitia</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Instead the ancient ones</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Were supplicate to slates </span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Of glass and plastic</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Apple fashion</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Samsung civilisation</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The culture of the</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Proto-Motorola</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They all would pray</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To paperweights</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">These multi-functional</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Plastic hand-axes</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Could repel a predator</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Or even spark real fire</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We now believe</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They were used to move menhirs</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">These cultures knew no want</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nor hierarchy. For, running barefoot</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In such a palm-oil paradise</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Every ancient would accumulate</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">All the many paperweights</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They ever might desire</span></div></blockquote><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;">Inspired by the very lovely <a href="https://prehistorypodcast.com/" target="_blank">Pre-History Podcast</a></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-49022986315611050922023-04-19T18:42:00.009+01:002023-04-20T10:35:55.283+01:00Miglena's Tales<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-nineteen-8/" target="_blank">Day Nineteen</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2J2aa7rLGU8sz_kuoOqn5D7ZieBjgtHusLy75VmPhBN_9xFW70JLy2QOZvuAy6S3g3Cc7tCMfs4GKGImWDCkTVJQFoAZ6iU_IMW1hAPuwO2glYb-Sa3tP9IdUsam9NI5XjZoahNM1-Gj9KT2M9c-PolKWYZ0yf1gfaYxWEQ5S9eo9fiZx6p0f_yRdBw/s1080/IMG-20230419-WA0018.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="608" data-original-width="1080" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2J2aa7rLGU8sz_kuoOqn5D7ZieBjgtHusLy75VmPhBN_9xFW70JLy2QOZvuAy6S3g3Cc7tCMfs4GKGImWDCkTVJQFoAZ6iU_IMW1hAPuwO2glYb-Sa3tP9IdUsam9NI5XjZoahNM1-Gj9KT2M9c-PolKWYZ0yf1gfaYxWEQ5S9eo9fiZx6p0f_yRdBw/s320/IMG-20230419-WA0018.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In our village by the mountain, there lived</span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">A man p</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">eople called </span><i style="font-family: georgia;">The Wrestler</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">It was long ago, when my dad was a kid.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">He - <i>The Wrestler</i> - (though not yet named so),</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Went to the forest and I can't remember now,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Why he went into the bear hollow.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">While he was there the bear returned home,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And to get inside the hollow, the bear</span> </div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Goes a</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">ss-first. Can you imagine?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">So the man is there, yes, and</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">- because he can't get out -</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">He grabs the bear by the belly!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And she - straight away - </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">Jumps!</span> </div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Outside,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">(The weak spot of the bear is the belly).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">So from this day,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">He was nicknamed <i>The Wrestler</i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">A woman, same. She went to the forest,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Alone, because</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">She could earn a living picking mushrooms.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">But coming a bear in front of her, and</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Just growling and the lady, her</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Blood pressure - you know when you're scared -</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And ten days later she died of fright.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">My father told me these things. I was</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Ten years old, seeing in the newspaper</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">About some girl who could fly,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I memorised her name, Dora,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Dora's belly grew like a balloon</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And she flew!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And she is flying!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">That was very frightening, so</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">You see why I'm scared from the dark, </span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">When my cousin would whisper,</span> </blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Go to sleep!</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>Or Baba Duda will take you!</i><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia;">I, covering my face with a blanket.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I too remember everyone talked,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">About aliens,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">That they are flying all around,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Around.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">They took people.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">So when my sister and I visited our parents,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">In Russia. We travelled the Metro,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Around,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">I, looking sideways at my father,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">Thinking <i>t</i></span><i style="font-family: georgia;">his is not my dad</i><span style="font-family: georgia;">,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><i>This is an alien</i>.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And so I tell the stories my father told,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;">But I can't explain in English.</span></div><span style="font-family: georgia;">And not so funny</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">As my dad, t</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">he bear,</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The alien,<br />In our village by the mountain.</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div></blockquote><div><br /></div>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-88785965989633966292023-04-18T14:53:00.001+01:002023-04-18T14:53:34.545+01:00Ox / House<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eighteen-9/" target="_blank">Day Eighteen</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTHkIYfog8ECVLdeDn6Vg2tfntsxHiF3raawrgskse6o3GoB8bAyy72X-OI8YJPu8WQetXwU3doJpNCauMOeiQ4_iVbDzKImjPp270m4YoCoMYjCxYmwPWhD2airu8gukSuhUXKLfVPHxgonPhBQKiHDftkRxRNTMLfyvrnnlNlyS2Yi_HlizppDgYqw/s700/532588.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTHkIYfog8ECVLdeDn6Vg2tfntsxHiF3raawrgskse6o3GoB8bAyy72X-OI8YJPu8WQetXwU3doJpNCauMOeiQ4_iVbDzKImjPp270m4YoCoMYjCxYmwPWhD2airu8gukSuhUXKLfVPHxgonPhBQKiHDftkRxRNTMLfyvrnnlNlyS2Yi_HlizppDgYqw/s320/532588.jpg" width="263" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><i>Alphabet </i>means but the first and second letters,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Beginning (an ox). End (a house).</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Cos the rest are strictly for the birdz.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-7173081828277401032023-04-17T21:33:00.004+01:002023-04-17T21:47:26.663+01:00Bramble<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-seventeen-9/" target="_blank">Day Seventeen</a></h1><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCntRyHUeVvM7pxdQmLigzs9IPP0wYZdFyI-2bOm4VxCjorW8YeHKtAo6qzD0tlF8nD7uyIdZNVsV_EpgDjPPLIn5pSg9yJ_cRaBswVrvObsVf7XUYehJ0_eI69OS0677DE7zoMoJ70YvJihDgusgUnxgGI7SEt6_twrXACznEgoIWw6mLCcDLl0vsZw/s235/3236447.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="235" data-original-width="235" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCntRyHUeVvM7pxdQmLigzs9IPP0wYZdFyI-2bOm4VxCjorW8YeHKtAo6qzD0tlF8nD7uyIdZNVsV_EpgDjPPLIn5pSg9yJ_cRaBswVrvObsVf7XUYehJ0_eI69OS0677DE7zoMoJ70YvJihDgusgUnxgGI7SEt6_twrXACznEgoIWw6mLCcDLl0vsZw/s1600/3236447.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><br /></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><br /></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bramble</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We are entwined</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Are these thorns</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yours or mine? Your</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Spectral</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Violet</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mouth is</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Slick with syrup</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Lips</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Prickled</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Juice</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Drizzled</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Oh my blackberry</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bramble</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Darling, free your</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Spectral</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Violet</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mouth</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Unfurl</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Your thicket</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Glisten</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rake my skin</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And prick it</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bramble</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bitten sweet, with</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Berry tongue</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">We are as one</span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Flesh</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Picked</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Juice</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Licked</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ever with your</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Spectral</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Violet</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Mouth</span></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br /><br /><br /><br /><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"></blockquote>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-51298759667805511652023-04-16T15:01:00.163+01:002023-04-18T15:51:26.080+01:00No Lie<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-sixteen-10/" target="_blank">Day Sixteen</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWl4FzhzYYuV7Z-17vaF8Qj9aA0nZVQ598ZTmFprTcbUWZhpOwDeNnPlL3SdTDae8aljlz2LzcQjZkAN_BtecdzVwPvW8lPZYc3wV3LZchrd0Bltb1-_1NNzNjSdeNEUjSBNo9PCzTNwhEI-K-wSJNIdcHOtrBA3dF0Zty0elXJ9PwQBU60aGvkCV8_Q/s805/6160366.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="805" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWl4FzhzYYuV7Z-17vaF8Qj9aA0nZVQ598ZTmFprTcbUWZhpOwDeNnPlL3SdTDae8aljlz2LzcQjZkAN_BtecdzVwPvW8lPZYc3wV3LZchrd0Bltb1-_1NNzNjSdeNEUjSBNo9PCzTNwhEI-K-wSJNIdcHOtrBA3dF0Zty0elXJ9PwQBU60aGvkCV8_Q/s320/6160366.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A truth is not nailed down</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Pick one up and run with it</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Turn it over in your hand</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Like sea glass. Hold up</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The prism of it; see, they are</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Never a lonely hue. Seldom unitary.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Truths are neither liquid, gas nor solid.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They are not that which can be told</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">In press conferences or boardrooms.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They are, perhaps, liminal spaces</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And not a spot to linger.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Truths disappear, sometimes,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">When you flick on the fullbeams.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not convenient or durable</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Not painless (truth hurts) but</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Vanishingly hazardous to health.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">If you hold a rare mineral truth</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">You'll see; It's not for secreting away</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And it's not an exhibition.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A truth is never what you think,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Especially to the unfamiliar other.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">No barred window,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nor a despot, entrenched,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And a truth is all of these things</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And none of them.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p> </p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-46554420093692759462023-04-15T20:46:00.001+01:002023-04-15T20:46:47.562+01:00Failing Upwards<p style="text-align: left;"> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fifteen-9/" target="_blank">Day Fifteen</a></h1><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrC_iKp1c6iOb1a0dxIKCpqsPrJETCgNfZR-fjnJPdObEnDQT8ubpGtnf9SArl5itpyeZETlrAwrLDDNKsfa2nSVCriymOCVd9IjeMLQXqvONkgj7RSMK0t6d8UqzRG-PqcSLoWJij0aiEbWoOGNv7EcajVkYijpWdTOhfXrtUr_sDc4pIF2HfXmBONA/s950/4873443.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="950" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrC_iKp1c6iOb1a0dxIKCpqsPrJETCgNfZR-fjnJPdObEnDQT8ubpGtnf9SArl5itpyeZETlrAwrLDDNKsfa2nSVCriymOCVd9IjeMLQXqvONkgj7RSMK0t6d8UqzRG-PqcSLoWJij0aiEbWoOGNv7EcajVkYijpWdTOhfXrtUr_sDc4pIF2HfXmBONA/s320/4873443.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Okay. Let's double-click into it,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's deep-dive, make the ocean boil,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I want this to be scalable. Organic.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An unpacked integration.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ducks in a row, so-to-say. Or speak.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dollar value. I hear you but,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's put a pin in that. We'll</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Double-down on the up-level,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Moving forward's the bottom line,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's <i>open the kimono.</i></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The pain point, yes, there was a flood;</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can we open up tomorrow? Ah,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Still wading, huh. And the smell, you say,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm loving your thought leadership.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's lean into opening tomorrow.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fire damage is an opportunity.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Could I empower you to circle back,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To the bottom line?</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'll action balloons for reopening,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can we source someone to blow them up?</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-89416492397210741342023-04-14T12:43:00.000+01:002023-04-14T12:43:16.139+01:00Autobiography Ad Infinitum<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-fourteen-10/" target="_blank">Day Fourteen</a></h1><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr0qsZ4-dTFbpT1BKoZBhdbkjdg2_wCsVqdtv7ER7prWTy5LDF2HD7P3V8k-SWI1Y1FsBrcPAZfa5yxbmndcM2fn1IBL4Qe7GHBMs6KNLES9FezU2xXHFJ6jpDTA2NaOtinni9biU4_By1-BNfi-suAV9_rIEkv5-8eJ7xfinPCohF7yYz5-tsrM3Qaw/s950/hole.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="950" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr0qsZ4-dTFbpT1BKoZBhdbkjdg2_wCsVqdtv7ER7prWTy5LDF2HD7P3V8k-SWI1Y1FsBrcPAZfa5yxbmndcM2fn1IBL4Qe7GHBMs6KNLES9FezU2xXHFJ6jpDTA2NaOtinni9biU4_By1-BNfi-suAV9_rIEkv5-8eJ7xfinPCohF7yYz5-tsrM3Qaw/s320/hole.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><br /></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I walk down the street</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">There is a deep hole in the sidewalk</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I fall in</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I hit something. A woman.</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"Sorry," I say</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">"It's not your fault," she mumbles.</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">She's embarrassed; she fell in the hole yesterday</span></p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">And she's jammed in there <i>real</i> <i>good.</i></span></p></blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p><i><br /></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A destruction of <a href="https://www.therecoveryplace.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Autobiography-in-Five-Short-Chapters.pdf" target="_blank">Autobiography in Five Short Chapters</a> by Portia Nelson</p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-91499267432506274992023-04-13T14:34:00.000+01:002023-04-13T14:34:03.437+01:00<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-thirteen-9/">Day Thirteen</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipqiKT2JjUdHjBFzy6JtTLPsWbKsoMvIdDLHEFBIW0FnafvGeLerp9lnUMR3XxPmGYutmLc0IiZDty05EVrIfCX4UFNmtFphcBM6JuSaE-ptgRXJYF5ANGVgyIU_LY_0LWTnYC3ZHOPLoWvneoHuvT-dTcz_opTBCSmskt9t0Ib5rwPvAKTTFvQ_CY9A/s453/snel-chart-blur.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="453" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipqiKT2JjUdHjBFzy6JtTLPsWbKsoMvIdDLHEFBIW0FnafvGeLerp9lnUMR3XxPmGYutmLc0IiZDty05EVrIfCX4UFNmtFphcBM6JuSaE-ptgRXJYF5ANGVgyIU_LY_0LWTnYC3ZHOPLoWvneoHuvT-dTcz_opTBCSmskt9t0Ib5rwPvAKTTFvQ_CY9A/s320/snel-chart-blur.jpg" width="170" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They say my vision</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Looks improved but I don't see</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What they're getting at</span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-18391279428689885172023-04-12T13:04:00.001+01:002023-04-12T13:10:50.291+01:00I Feel Fantastic<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-twelve-11/">Day Twelve</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MlXsu6kdSU4IXABCzvaXqEgn08p_Cw0sok4ELDAU9IKT-bpGD1R4f8WzkzEljfnUQZnlsNtSmXm8smITqC4zc1trhnzqKKhZppyK2jPZ5muJ6zQ5AXO6lZSGULJ0CQjr8uno0Zr09HZf9NPWXEnmlUbGlJ2FxrcU29FLWHVwYVh5kToGtbov8er9_w/s700/mess.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="519" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-MlXsu6kdSU4IXABCzvaXqEgn08p_Cw0sok4ELDAU9IKT-bpGD1R4f8WzkzEljfnUQZnlsNtSmXm8smITqC4zc1trhnzqKKhZppyK2jPZ5muJ6zQ5AXO6lZSGULJ0CQjr8uno0Zr09HZf9NPWXEnmlUbGlJ2FxrcU29FLWHVwYVh5kToGtbov8er9_w/s320/mess.jpg" width="237" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then everybody clapped.</span></p><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Oh, I'm sorry / not the sonnet</span></p><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You expected. Nor the villanelle</span></p><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(who joined a cult)</span></p><p></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of your iambic fantasy</span></p><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While you were out, I was catching lines</span></p><p></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But my meter ran away from me</span></p><p></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And </span></p><p></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Shit - there's always one</span></p><p></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm herding spirit cats I'm</span></p><p></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just; enjambed in all the wrong places</span></p><p></p></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dissonance; the Gallic shrug</span></p><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;">I will hang an image, high, on hooks and</span><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">> INSERT METAPHOR HERE<</span></p><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;">Before a line that lively steps into the swell, the culmination of my riot / canter-cloudburst getreadytoclap-<br /></span></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div></div>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-59285993983081129682023-04-11T18:17:00.006+01:002023-04-11T18:20:44.319+01:00Spirit Cats<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eleven-11/">Day Eleven</a></h1><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxgyElIDMxBpuBgQysMH6AzaukVEpeLxZF2AoymHOAIudiTc8vhecMUHPje8WP3s7kk1sHDTe4UUKkenu7Yf-2XA1YBmNjygrCaDgLi1N1RpyUkOc_Gp7tV9gji2JwMjSGfK82IxwP4gxi6ZnCd-LJruKLR-74qRMtnSHL59CmhRO58jBXZ1VvBFcung/s1557/340952162_968115447693066_234041004556891596_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1557" data-original-width="1223" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxgyElIDMxBpuBgQysMH6AzaukVEpeLxZF2AoymHOAIudiTc8vhecMUHPje8WP3s7kk1sHDTe4UUKkenu7Yf-2XA1YBmNjygrCaDgLi1N1RpyUkOc_Gp7tV9gji2JwMjSGfK82IxwP4gxi6ZnCd-LJruKLR-74qRMtnSHL59CmhRO58jBXZ1VvBFcung/s320/340952162_968115447693066_234041004556891596_n.jpg" width="251" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lucky</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She saw spirit cats</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All 'round</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Little phantom</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Paw pads, fleet</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-size: medium;">and</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wafting </span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Will-O'-Wisp tails.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>She saw. </span><span>Spirit cats</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Caught the</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">lick of light</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keen and</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Slipping i</span><span>nky midnight</span></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">'Round her ankle</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How the garden here was quiet.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-13748169673309221992023-04-10T14:22:00.004+01:002023-04-10T14:29:12.020+01:00Captain See-Saw<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-ten-11/">Day Ten</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisndEd8WlplGvjDnMCO0c2Knblnib6H7QXoB4NBNS7C-BShTIY2WSJV74QchVq27vF1SfNWemMMSYcNu3FwjYkSQCWZyttHWD3KaUzGXAb0VJ-UwtmdzefyJp1Cl1x39UnClsscUsFMD6vL6xwyieTAsseedxgvIJEJaS9Vb8fxPWs8RkCaUh8v6H6qw/s700/moon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="467" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisndEd8WlplGvjDnMCO0c2Knblnib6H7QXoB4NBNS7C-BShTIY2WSJV74QchVq27vF1SfNWemMMSYcNu3FwjYkSQCWZyttHWD3KaUzGXAb0VJ-UwtmdzefyJp1Cl1x39UnClsscUsFMD6vL6xwyieTAsseedxgvIJEJaS9Vb8fxPWs8RkCaUh8v6H6qw/s320/moon.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Skippering a see-saw,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am dunking in the cup,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">But I'm never in the doldrums,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am always on the up.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To balance on a see-saw,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Is a perilous affair,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">One may swoop into the muck,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Or one may crash into the air,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I am bound inversely upwards,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Though I hit the dirt too soon,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The impelling of Achilles,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sends me tumbling to the moon.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">They call me Captain See-Saw,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">'Cause I'm never lingering,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I'm a topsy-turvy wonder,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">With my turtle-turning grin.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-36578554748575651542023-04-09T17:49:00.004+01:002023-04-09T17:51:36.157+01:00Salted Heart<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-nine-9/">Day Nine</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWkTaixNtE-z11OQyu9ZU7Tw9E4Z_0agPw1atvfD6mLqe403pw1w1fetqRG-DSrG6dgtyJDoJET6smghI8SvNNNfL6Og389OrKOMs0oaziQAZC4a_1O1oqLfXUVnIB0urJpwswJDbAgKRkKndau2WOMfzp9B3BuGZyK5H5TwSABPZtuV3SIS9-hGQl_Q/s950/SP.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="950" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWkTaixNtE-z11OQyu9ZU7Tw9E4Z_0agPw1atvfD6mLqe403pw1w1fetqRG-DSrG6dgtyJDoJET6smghI8SvNNNfL6Og389OrKOMs0oaziQAZC4a_1O1oqLfXUVnIB0urJpwswJDbAgKRkKndau2WOMfzp9B3BuGZyK5H5TwSABPZtuV3SIS9-hGQl_Q/s320/SP.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Her heart's been salted. Hung to dry in the</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Curing house and smoked, and cut with cold-clove,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Naked garnet. Once it thumped like rabbit</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Feet, a ship with banks of oarsmen heaving,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once it leapt and was intoxicated,</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Or it sang and shook its feathers like a</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Magnificent Riflebird, mad with the season.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She outlived the winter of miracles.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No-one knows the ways in which her heart is</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Peppered, rare and sweet with hot, juice-blooms of</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Serious blue. And none will feel the flutter</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Of her wild and apple-green abandon.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Her heart's been seasoned. Oak-aged, raw in salt.</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And she will not let any creature eat.</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-31884845340088380632023-04-08T12:30:00.001+01:002023-05-01T18:50:47.856+01:00Cod Beck Reservoir<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eight-10/">Day Eight</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5ItJE2xR8mX0RPHAWy1q9yWg53Zk3Wq6e0loGjY7pXlWKO1JXKvGM67EhkhNuUUtZBeelSNp7k3A5-1gi8wnc3pNNPing-OWaTRM49csW4MIyEBAvlI9RQdwgCzglP0uF7SqSwgFrO0UhBUOf6hPuhxT4CErIt8XZCyZlq9tlNuVt_NmS0HXqut1-g/s933/6326737.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="933" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT5ItJE2xR8mX0RPHAWy1q9yWg53Zk3Wq6e0loGjY7pXlWKO1JXKvGM67EhkhNuUUtZBeelSNp7k3A5-1gi8wnc3pNNPing-OWaTRM49csW4MIyEBAvlI9RQdwgCzglP0uF7SqSwgFrO0UhBUOf6hPuhxT4CErIt8XZCyZlq9tlNuVt_NmS0HXqut1-g/w423-h317/6326737.jpg" width="423" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Wilderness is an exile</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">from this procedural wood.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The trees, ranked in line,</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">muster by the unwrinkled lake</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">beside a lawn which has been cut</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">in secret, with scissors. </span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">The closest to God I've ever been was rolling</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">beside a church, in the grass with a girl</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">with the sun on her tongue.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">She deliberately kissed me under </span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the peep-eye of a steeple.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Barefoot to the soundtrack buzz of dragonflies.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I think she threw me upwards, </span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">way beyond the belfry,</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">where bells don't dare intrude</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">though I felt a sort of reverb in</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">the transept of my bright heart</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">'til I fell. Fell so gladly.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Falling tender, like the sunlight.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">This boy ought to be tattooed</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">with the sober scent of his own black earth.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He's fixed on baggy jeans and rollies.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">He'll know too late that any kind of height</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">can only be achieved</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">in the valley of his own yielding heart.</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">You can't pilot dragonflies</span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">from a mowed lawn.</span></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88368639256619696.post-68129554959835212562023-04-07T16:12:00.000+01:002023-04-07T16:12:41.570+01:00A List of Visitors to My Window<p> </p><h1 style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.napowrimo.net/day-seven-9/">Day Seven</a></h1><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyPL2S4LMLenDHxi5jrTV4BR8QRZbYQrxMqGNgiTdf_loNd9_QwDPNliuvrwyC1erpdAfOLzEJ29OMkPVxNNNv0YdHuZCHkJShcowyHDITfIkLtrmaVWCT0BW--TYGoj-LcGOTOxID9S4zhpNv9h4azv5XHynlCNOm14hDwqukMljDtc8WuU3lpQ--w/s1761/340181888_770323684623659_49940901963503058_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1242" data-original-width="1761" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRyPL2S4LMLenDHxi5jrTV4BR8QRZbYQrxMqGNgiTdf_loNd9_QwDPNliuvrwyC1erpdAfOLzEJ29OMkPVxNNNv0YdHuZCHkJShcowyHDITfIkLtrmaVWCT0BW--TYGoj-LcGOTOxID9S4zhpNv9h4azv5XHynlCNOm14hDwqukMljDtc8WuU3lpQ--w/s320/340181888_770323684623659_49940901963503058_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Two robins</span></i> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Less bold than implied by their breast</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Well, their passions must be private</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- Grab and go</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Starlings, murmuration</span></i> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Effervescent, iridescent</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Daft speckled flecks. Like a Pollock</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- Hearts must go like hummingbirds</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Assorted tits</span></i> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Sweet and timid cake-pops of the bird world</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Perhaps internally marbled</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- I have seen them dreaming</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Family Sparrow</span></i> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The Bramble Bunch. Boy,</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Do they bicker. Scrabbling scatter-guns</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- I tell them to <i>calm down</i></span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Wood pigeons</span></i> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Too fat for the feeder, so</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A symbiosis with the sparrow</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- Endeavour to be elegant</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A flash of green</span></i> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span></i><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Oh gosh, it must have escaped and</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Bewilderment and awe were in the hot pink panic of its cry</span> </p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">- There's someone out there for everyone</span></p></blockquote></blockquote><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div>Catching Lineshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17048917549519201678noreply@blogger.com0