Showing posts with label camel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label camel. Show all posts

Monday, August 27, 2012

of course we have a camel for a neighbor


it seems i have only a limited amount of words at my disposal. and when they are going elsewhere, i have none to leave here. i've been editing a book. i think i'm actually pretty good at it (could it be i found my calling at this advanced age?), but it's pretty time consuming. and has filled my brain for days, leaving room for little else.

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i've also just reread murakami's wind-up bird chronicle. he always makes me feel a step apart from the ostensibly real world (if i even know what that is). his words are so beautiful it feels pointless to try to put any down on the page (let alone send them out into cyberspace). plus, he makes me think it would be a good idea to spend time down a well. too bad ours is full of water.

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polylingual poet cia rinne doesn't lack words. i wish i'd been at louisiana to hear her yesterday.

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not a whole lot of words here in sign: moa + holmberg
i'm fascinated by the spare, clean, modern, scandinavian aesthetic, even as i could never indulge in it myself.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

one of these things is not like the others

i'd like to introduce you to some of our neighbors...

i met a most charming cow yesterday.
she told me her name was molly.
apologies to the real molly.
she had a friend named polly (apologies to the real polly).
and a couple more named dolly and madge.
and across the road? this guy. we'll call him will (with apologies to bill).
i do wonder, with all those cows around, whether he knows he's a camel.
have you met any of your neighbors lately?