Saturday October 18th, my hiking pal, Danielle, and I hiked SW Washington’s June Lake to Chocolate Falls trail, hoping the mist and fog wouldn’t turn to rain, and that we’d get a last fall hike in. We’ve only managed four other hikes since April. Dismal numbers no self-respecting hiker can like. The weather and our [...]
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
PoCo poem: Squall
Squall I will. Tomorrow. And an explanation for being quiet. As if silence can be explained, as if an explanation is needed. Sonorous expectations roll down the mud-tracked street. I know. Tomorrow. And an expectation that all will be resolved. Anticipation dissolves in puddles like so many oily rainbows. Tomorrow – isn’t that what you [...]
Arizonasaurus
I wasn’t going to try to write a poem based on Juliet’s prompt – fun that it was – until I saw Reth’s Lesothosaurus. His inspired me to Google Arizonasaurus, and gracious. There is a northern Arizona dino. Well not really a dinosaur, but an ancient critter that looks like a really big croc with [...]
More PoCo fun: translating
So The PoCo October-resident-poet, Twitches, came up with a cool play-with-words prompt. You take a poem, perhaps one you are not attached to, and stuff it in BabelFish and see what comes out. Nathan offered a very nice poem of his up in the comments, which I borrowed – with permission since it was offered [...]
Are you an undecided voter? Read this:
An interesting excerpt from Roger Cohen’s NY Times editorial from yesterday, “Nixon, Bush, Palin” “I’m grateful to Bob Rice of Tangent Capital for pointing out that the actuarial risk, based on mortality tables, of Palin becoming president if the Republican ticket wins the election is about 1 in 6 or 7. That’s the same odds [...]

