Dusk is that special time daylight relinquishes its favor. Colors slowly wash out, diluted with grayness. Details of objects soften, to murky dark shapes Dusk is the time where birds vacate their feeding turf and fly to secret resting spaces. Crickets pump up their cricketing for the second shift. Fireflies flash coded sexts. Nightcrawlers break…
Author: Lisa or Li
mother, grandmother, gardener, observer of nature, reader, writer, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music, philosophical daoist. Welcome.
Poetry — Late summer nature
image link Queen Anne’s lace fringes the edges of long green lawn ruffling with the breeze. Bees and butterflies, yellow, black, red, orange, blue, ride the gentle swells. Crickets and cicada chirp and thrum in concert with chickadee and finch. Apple, pear, and locust branches bob, leaves rustle in flickering sunlight.
Paterson (2016)
insert link Yesterday the first disc arrived from my renewed subscription to netflix discs. I found it through an Adam Driver search and chose it when I saw Jim Jarmusch directs and saw that it was about a poet who has a day job. Who could resist this trifecta? I watched Paterson last night. Already…
Tao Te Ching/Dao De Jing V 12
image link The five colors can blind, The five tones deafen, The five tastes cloy. The race, the hunt, can drive men mad And their booty leave them no peace. Therefore a sensible man Prefers the inner to the outer eye: He has his yes, – he has his no. –Witter Bynner rendition of Lao…
Autobahn
image link thoughts words ideas impressions judgments beliefs values theories suspicions reminisces regrets attitudes fancies impulses moods urges wishes tempers sentiments desires convictions intentions leanings notions sentiments hopes reflections speculations anticipations deliberations ideations introspections intuitions rationalizations ruminations obsessions compulsions hesitations condemnations rationales coherences connections deductions inductions inferences linkages analyses claims contentions defenses exchanges discussions pleas…
Mind tide
image link Tide ebbs, seafoam dries, and seaweed turns to dust, waiting for the full moon.
Bichir
I went to the pet store yesterday to get more fish food and some new plants for the aquarium. Just like many other retailers in the area the store is woefully short of workers. The fish area of the store even removed its ‘ring bell for assistance’ bell. I gave the two tanks of plants…
