Nudibranch dreams

Doug says last night he "dreamt we were running through town and there was a nudibranch in every puddle."

"Nudibranchia" from Ernst Haeckel's Artforms of Nature, 1904.

Sunday bright

Wish I'd had the courage to shoot this woman from the front.  She had on a marvelous hat, purple stockings, rouged cheeks, pursed ruby lips, and was reading Orwell's 1984.

Powell endorses Obama

Happy Birthday Stella

A birthday party tonight.  A friend of Maeve's.  The kids carved pumpkins.  Had cupcakes.  Looked through a cabinet of curiosities.  I learned about the jaw harp and heard it played.  And I spotted this friendly Eastern European fellow.

Renshi

I just killed an ant on my desk.  Poor ant.  He fell to my poem frustration.  I'm in a "renshi" poem cycle that goes from person to person (in a small group) and from the previous person's poem you must take their last line and use it as your title.  I have little to show for my efforts (this is my second round) and now I've killed an ant walking innocently and ant-like across my desk because I could.

Muses, hear that?  Ant sacrifice.

But if there were such passageways...

You could take them

and would

Here to the boathouse, and to the glassy lake--

its quiet necklace of twilight

Your ear to the vibrating catbird throat

robed in song and changing

There are.  There are.  This is heaven on earth and

you are your own lonely animal, soft and failing,

locked in the magnificent twinkling cuffs

of your passing sparkle.

Hope-hope-hoping

Here is the latest polling data from fivethirtyeight(dot)com.

Keeping hope alive.

Mary with a dagger...

Maybe she saw the Palin debate?

Debate tonight

Let's win this thing!  

steve's in town

oh marxwriter, what will we write?

a vintage toy typewriter i picked up