Archive for July, 2008

Serendipity and Ephemerality

July 24th, 2008 | In ruminations 

Making twilight more beautiful, since the dawn of time
Because I nearly missed it, and because it wasn’t going to be around long, I seemed far more concerned than anyone else that tonight’s twilight, in this time and place, was full of beautiful and unexpected colors, in beautiful and unexpected places.
I suppose it started with an […]

OPW: “The Summer Day”

July 22nd, 2008 | In OPW, poetry 

This poem by Mary Oliver has a few lines I quite like:
Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean—
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of […]