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Friday, August 20, 2010
Quartet: Feathers and Salt
I've never seen geese crop the grass right here, next to the parked cars and the divers getting ready. Those are divers, not birds, in the water in the background. Note here the watchers; I love that about geese. That's how the Roman Republic was saved from the invading Celts back in . . . oh, that's another story for another time.
Now, here, just respect this foursome and how they make the space.
My favorite word--garsecg--from the Old English Beowulf is a kenning or poetic riddle-word for the sea. It means "the spear-man," perhaps the echo of a figure like the Norse Aegir or some other surly northern Neptune. In other texts, garsecg seems to be an adjective meaning "sea-like," "stormy" or "tempestuous."