DuckColor

These cross hatched
ducks
make you do a double take
Are there two each way?

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— jorge (@itsyorch) July 19, 2015

Drum City

I was reading 'Drum City' by Thea Guidone along with my preschooler and feeding the rice cereal to my infant. And I think I have hit upon a great ritual. It couldnt have started with a better book. All that rhyming. I like how every page on the book starts with DRUM which is like a big caesura but the rest on the lines that follow flow like waves. There's mystery too..
" people in banks,
people in shops,
everywhere, everything, everyone
STOPS"

and I wondered why...
On the next spread is the huge army of kids with their tubs and tins..
The illustrations are well done too. Catchy enough for preschoolers to call out what they see.

Second time around, I started singing it..

Junior Mint Single-Cup Hot Cocoa for Keurig K-Cup Brewers

I had this Junior Mint Single-Cup Hot Cocoa for Keurig K-Cup Brewers and found it to be appealing. when you say mint and chocolate, I think of the after eight chocolate squares which have gooey mint inside them. But this cocoa is nothing like that, neither too sweet, nor too minty. The consistency of the cocoa too is smooth, not like the ones you mix hot water with.

Museum of Mistakes

Museum of Mistakes

A dish falling down hour before the arrival of guests

In the above page, author EricWeiner talks about how mess ups show the process of an art. Can we extend that argument to how decay of a body shows how the body works, which will help us in decoding how to make the human body or stop it from aging. If we were perfect, then we wouldnt be able to reproduce ourself. But if we are not perfect, then the dissimilarity makes us irreproducible in total likeliness.

An Ode to Dictionary

When I have a tab open
for dictionary
I am happy

Natural

I think of the seed events
popping up and wonder
if there is a
National Seed Swap Day
which there is
Jan 30th

But it also precedes spring
which is kind of natural

The shape of a Heart

Heart Shaped Mold Silicone Molds - 3 Size Assorted Silicone Heart Pan for Baking Cake, Cupcake, Muffin, Pudding, Jelly, Ice Cubes, Bath Bomb, Lotion Bar, Soap BPA Free Nonstick Set of 3

A Costco plastic plate
with four cupcakes
placed in a square

in Valentine color
(donned by Rice Krispies
this time of the year)

Few sparkly paper hearts
red and pink
big and small

A heart cupcake
topper with a heart
and another smaller one
embossed where its
heart might be
if it were a human

And some heart
candy with letters
like LOVE

Symbols out of Phrases

Whatever the hand finds to do, the heart should go forth in wisdom #mysterybenevolence @FolkArtMuseum pic.twitter.com/GEDpO8xLa6

— Sommer X. Santoro (@1976pacer) February 15, 2016

Serpentine park

Dallas Fair Park

On a Valentine's day
couples picniced
by the lake

With bridges piped onto
and under
the lake
would be traversable
too like the heart.

Straight as a Crooked Stick

Tomb of the Diver
Would I be shockd to find that the Parthenon colums are not straight? That some how the ancients were not perfect and that their striaght line was crooked? Entasis was a way of getting the columns to look straight. But why is straight aesthetic?

My thoughts on

La Limpieza

This poem takes you from the Limpieza de sangre to an instructable of How to turn your bleach stained red bathtub white. Or thats just this reader's journey. With a word like Limpieza, the reader will be forced to lookup the meaning, kind of like running around for a beg, borrow, steal and now you have spent some time for the poem. With that hook and images like dove-bone-dirt (When I first heard of bone dry is how I feel of dove-bone-dirt) and russet (red potatoes came to mind). With this tete-a-tete, the poem has lodged in my mind and awaits a knock at a further date. Thoughts during an ambulance blare are universal where they flow like cries between birds when they hear an eagle. JGApoet shows this poem as a filigree of her time-warping abilities.

Talking Words

Yesterday while telling a home brewn story, I made a mental note to look up  explain (laying it plain) and  explore (plore which it says is linked to cry out - reminds me of implore).

Agora

A warriors grave at pylos Greece could be a gateway to Civilizations

While reading of agora as collection, which I know as market, which can be seen as a collection of marketers and their wares, words make me wonder how we can go it two ways, sum of individuals or as a whole new individual.

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60 second science

The stopwatch
with its ring
a mouth
and the two
buttons as
its front feet
looks like a
tortoise