Double Feature

 

Last night watched 

Fellini's I Vitelloni (1953).

Something about the film 

(maybe the festival scene, 

definitely the ending)

reminded me of 

Charlie Chaplin's film

The Circus (1928)

Robert Sund Stamp

 

Last night Tim McNulty 

read from his new collection 

of Robert Sund's journal poems

"Notes from Disappearing Lake" 

a wonderful, inspiring book.

Also, he used Robert Sund's 

personal stamp on the poster for me.

Adventure Books

Spotted these two old books in the library stacks.
For more adventures with Admiral Byrd, see
my blog posting from February 14th, 2012:
"Trees in the Asylum Garden"

Empress Tree

 

Looking through the Empress Tree 

at my job today, you can see a rainbow 

around the sun.

Walk in the Woods

 

 

 

Here's a little movie of the walk I took at lunchtime

chestnut tree

 

Waiting all winter

finally pulling

a green dress on

poem from next collection
not yet published
chestnut tree photos at job today

Mr. Fritz's Bug

 

 

Observing the flights that raced across his retina,

Mr. Fritz finally eased out of his hammock. He had

nothing else to do this lazy day. First he put a thick

lens invention in front of his eye. The world jumped

with details. He fine tuned the box all the wires ran to.

The connection created vision made of horizontal

lines that he could follow like yarn in a maze. 

Taking up the fading thread of one, he pursued it

across the field, along the dazzling wall of garden

flowers to where it landed on the mossy bark of an

old elm tree. He tuned dials to see more clearly

what was happening on the trunk. The line ended

in a little green bug who had flown all the way here.

It waved its six legs to another bug it met and

Mr. Fritz had to zoom in close for this astonishment.

The bug whose life he chose to chase, pulled out

a blur of something and had it punched in the smallest

machine. It passed the timecard to another bug,

who then counted out frail scales of money. Mr. Fritz’s

bug stuffed them under its wing and sprang with a joy

off back into the wind.

 

Story from my book
'Home Recordings' (Bird Dog Publishing, 2009)
Photos taken yesterday at job