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Sunday, February 27, 2022
Sunday, February 20, 2022
Saturday, February 19, 2022
Friday, February 18, 2022
Thursday, February 10, 2022
Draft-Drift
Feeling my way into a new poem?
NOT AN OAR
BUT A RUDDER
That's how I heard it -- those lines --in my sleep last night.
Not sure where the poem will go.
It reminds me of the beginning of a poem from long ago:
Nights, I built fires
From the wood you did not chop.
We shall see which words shall drop.
--MD
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
Monday, February 7, 2022
Morning Roll Call
When I came out of the study a minute ago, Captain and Lady seemed to be sleeping soundly.
Now . . . .
Tuesday, February 1, 2022
Reading Around: Cooper, Captain, and Wilson
Reading around:
Susan Cooper's The Grey King and Angus Wilson's Anglo-Saxon Attitudes.
The introduction by Jane Smiley is particularly astute.
Captain is the cat in the photo.