As the post

beneath

the cormorant
extends itself
on the roosting board
like a wicker on fire
in a lantern
tuned to its
brightest

Another great week at Jube School! Stay tuned for our next animal lantern creation! #jubeschool #lanterns #puppets #wolf #buffalo #yycarts pic.twitter.com/w09P1Xyy2T

— Green Fools Theatre (@GreenFools) October 26, 2018

The stilts

stand ankle deep
in the still water
all in the same direction
anticipating waves to wash
them off their feet

On the back of an envelope

Writing down
  ingredients
    for a Pistachio
      cake from yellow mix

for the ones
  at the grocers
      and at home

What does club soda
  do in a cake with a box
    of pistachio pudding in
      and another on top

Following another envelope
  will take us there
    to a mountain top
      pinnacle peak

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Format from Invitation poem from "Red Bird Poems by Mary Oliver"

Threshold half way up

A stocky wooden door
placed sideways
on the wall
like a frame

On a close look
I recall a
huge cuboid log
that slides from the
inside from the wall
on one side of the
door to the other
to hold the
door halves

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Cafe Krishna, Chandler

The Spectrum

of varying colors
on the steps
at Nukus Art Museum
coaxes you to find
a lateral pattern
while moving up

Enigma of languages

Everyday morning, in high school I awaited for the language classes, happy with the last days homework. When I moved to the high school, all the Telugu I would learn was done. All the later classes had what I had already learnt. I think it was this reason, that gave the chance for experimenting. The homework consisted of using words in forming sentences. Around the same time I got into Hindi class, I had just learnt the letters, while the rest of the class was way ahead. I cried in the class, when I didnt understand the words.
Once we get comfortable with the basics,then there are possibilities!!

A language for a bird

There are more than
8000 bird species
There are more than
7000 languages
spoken in the world*

Eliezer Nowordwoski,
" And how many more have
disappeared over time?
Probably 12000"

For each lost bird
a language lost
for each birds song
a language unheard

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*Resurrecting Hebrew, Ilan Stavans (pg 50)