L'aura del Campo

Any snow yet? How about running your own country?

L'aura del campo

LATE AUTUMN: 8 Masa'il (19 December) 41º and grey.

'é a lua, é a lua, na quintana dos mortos'
♣ Federico García Lorca ♣

A cinquain written about the youth of the Pittsburgh Penguin NHL team. They are not doing bad at all, but as a Sabres fan, I get to poke some gentle fun. (35 degrees there at the moment)

Pittsburgh’s lament

Stumbling
across the rink,
black and white teens in tails,
young Penguins, spin like bowling pins,
glazed clowns.

[163.502a] 16 diciembre 2006

For my hockey friend. (33 degrees where he is) I was thinking about how skaters act out their art. No need for words. Whereas, we poor poets try to grasp what they are experiencing (and prolly fail).

Cursive

         for Gary McPike

Your art is a spray of ice
crystals that sprinkle the pond
with shouts and laughter
when the ground fights back with a smack.
Your trace of blade adds line after line
scratching wrinkles across
the blank face of black ice.
The moon looks down to quickly
scan your script, before the sun
rises to erase it again.
Each night you return
to etch a new chapter.

[163.506] 17 diciembre 2006

Hubbard knows some self-defense movements that remind me of the gracefulness of cats. Which made me think of mice. And on a cloudy day? All is grey.

Before breakfast

         for Hubbard Collinsworth

A morning of little things peeks out
reluctant between the clouds. With a cat’s
meow and bat of paws, it awakens
the mouse to smell the cheese the moon
has delivered in the hour before dawn.
Now all is grey: grey cat, grey mouse, grey day
and the fur of the morning lays thick
on the tongue. Who will lick it to taste
this gravy of fog or thin it to sun?

[163.509] 19 diciembre 2006

Will it snow next week? Children in the north and most Northland people want to know. It's less dreary when it's white. That's for sure! Not likely to snow here for Christmas, but there could be flakes. Same with Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Not a chance in Sheffield, England or Izmir, Turkey or even where Anna-Lisa is in Sweden. More likely they will see rain. Just like Monroe in NW Washington. So where will they have snow? Not on Nada's cruise, that's for sure and even her home town of Ojai will be 70 and sunny. That leaves ...

Missoula

... where it will be cold enough and may have snow on the ground even if they don't get any additional flakes before then. Yep. Y'all need to head out to visit the great state of Montana. Give my regards to Party-dude while you're out there visiting.

Do you ever wish you could run your own country? Issue your own money? Wear your own crown? This article that came out a couple weeks ago highlights people who have done just that. Want to go to Molossia? Head towards Nevada. Or Sealand? Sorry ... closed to visitors. It's off England. And the Hutt River Province is found north of Perth, Australia. Read all about it at:

http://travel.news.yahoo.com/b/rolf_potts/rolf_potts13579

I've decided I need a passport. Even to visit my friends in Canada it will be needed. Only $97 and you-too could have your picture on an official U.S. document . That equals a half weeks pay at minimum wage here in low-wage Kansas. Canada and the border states are not amused, but this is the price of paranoia, la vida loca de america.

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