Enga mellom fjella

Ornaments ... and aardvarks

Ornaments

He wore feathers in his hair,
arms covered with wings,
shoulders bearing the burden of twitters.

They pecked at his skin,
poked beaks into crevices,
jabbed at the bumps
where bugs hid.

Like a bull full of ticks
they festooned him:
white feathers, black wings
and red heads.

To his face his friends
called out Robin-red-breast;
behind his back:
just plain Pecker would do.

There were few
who did not greet him
as he sat in the square, doves at his feet,
birdsong in the air.

© 2009 Kåre Enga [165.394] 2009-01-03

Someone's blog entry about head lice prompted this, but who's entry was it?

Blah blah blah BLAH blah blah (a dactylic blah; thank you, Pamela Anderson):

The sun is OUT! A day as sunny as any I've experienced in Kansas. Cold but serene and beautiful.

Unfortunately, my back went out yesterday and got worse over night. I had to redo the futon as it was making it worse. I did manage to walk to Le Petit Outre for a baguette. But ... iffy whether me and my new green-and-maroon hat-with-flaps should venture forth. It being Sunday, there are fewer folks around if I should collapse. Maybe if I stick to well traveled paths ...

At least I found my wallet. Too bad I'd already called a bunch of friends trying to retrace my steps and even checked with the P.D. to see if anyone had turned it in. It was kicked under something at the back of my bed. Nothing important in it of course ... just I.D. and debit cards.

I am slicing off a luscious piece of rose-fruit (a.k.a. Bartlett pear) trying not to splatter pear-juice on my keyboard. Keyboards have funny tastes when it comes to juice oozing between the G and the H.

AARDVARKS

Tigger thinks of Prancer had this wonderful link about affect/effect in her blog: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/affect-versus-effect.aspx

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081230/ap_on_re_us/banned_words What words and expressions would you ban?

Montana: 13º at 14:40

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