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Unexpected Guests
Bilbo Baggins surrounded by unexpected guestsI’m brain dead from grading papers, and the finals are still to come! That’s my excuse for lacking the imagination to spin a yard about unknown and...
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BakingDay
Well, not the whole day, but all morning and part of the afternoon...I had made the dough ahead of time and stored it in the freezer. For me, this is the most productive and least tiring process.So...
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O Magritte Sky
"Beautiful World" by Rene MagritteToday begins the "O Antiphons." from the USCCB website:The Roman Church has been singing the "O" Antiphons since at least the eighth century. They are the antiphons...
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O Key of Rilke
"Bird and Key" by Christian SchloeWaiting for my students to arrive for their exam from Introduction to Poetry... I'm attaching my poem of the day, from my O Antiphons, and inspired by the poet...
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The Artist's Eye
Mario Marini "The Miracle"Today's prompt on The Daily Post is: Is there a painting or sculpture you’re drawn to? What does it say to you? Describe the experience. About forty years ago I took a...
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Fourth Sunday of Advent
This continues my own "O Antiphons" : O long nightfull cold moon,draw me like the sea,draw me like Magritte paints youpeering through the wrought iron tree.O Duende,when I sing with you, no one can...
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O Gathering Light
"Gathering Light" painting by Janice Mason SteevesHere's my "O" Antiphon for the day:O gathering light, receiving light,ours, ocelli, theirs, ommatidia,Who opens the insectsto navigate the...
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O Route of Jesse
The "O Antiphon" for today, "O Root of Jesse," changes for me into this: O Route of Jessethrough the desertof dessert,foretold by sagemint and rue, too.Streets of severance,tendrils twining on my...
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O Emmanuel
Last day of the "O" Antiphons - is "O Emmanuel"Which for me becomes this: O manual, laboring handbook,gladden the work of our hands.We wait for peace,but terror comes instead.What factory fashioned...
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Christmas Joy
here's a poem by G.K.Chesterton:There fared a mother driven forthOut of an inn to roam;In the place where she was homelessAll men are at home.The crazy stable close at hand,With shaking timber and...
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A Foggy Christmas
But still, it's Christmas. Here's a poem by William Wordsworth:"Minstrels"William WordsworthThe minstrels played their Christmas tuneTo-night beneath my cottage-eaves;While, smitten by a lofty...
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Still Celebrating
Christmas - Really, we should all begin celebrating Christmas on December 24 and keep celebrating until at least January 6...and some, even until Candlemas Day, February 2!It's our commercial...
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West Chester
Pennsylvania, not New York.This is my home town. I have not lived there since 1970, but I have been visiting there ever since.Now there is a Facebook page for people to post pictures; Chris Ann Colvin...
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New Year's Morning
Here's a poem by Kenneth Patchen: At the New Year In the shape of this night, in the still fall of snow, Father In all that is cold and tiny, these little birds and children In...
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A Satire of Circumstances
toward the semesterIn two weeks I’ll be back at school.Right now I am nursing a nasty round of bronchitis, and while I wait for a return of good health, I have been working on my syllabus.In this...
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The Weightless Air
The spider Arabella,1973Yesterday I came across this article on the Smithsonian website:Arabella and Anita had the right stuff–namely, silk for spinning webs. These two ordinary spiders were NASA’s...
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Where They Found Amusement
Scots soldier , reading in the trenches, World War 1Another installment on Modernity, or on what came before Modernity.A note on my diminished eyesight: 13 years ago I lost the central vision in my...
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Hearing "Yesterday"
Paul McCartneyThe Daily Post's prompt for today:Who did you idolize as a teenager? Did you go crazy for the Beatles? Ga-ga over Duran Duran? In love with Justin Bieber? Did you think Elvis was the...
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If I Could Go Back
The photo is of myself in 1971, one year out of college and freewheeling around Baltimore.Today’s Daily Prompt:If you could return to the past to relive a part of your life, either to experience the...
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Three Wrenching Deaths
Probably I’m not answering this prompt in the way it was intended, but I can’ help myself.In the space of a week, three people MY AGE, who were excellent artists and beloved, have died.First, the...
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