Whole Cloth

He measures the cloth
with his metal scale
Snipping it off
with heavy scissors.

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We know they have more to do with folklore than with fact - most of them were spun by grammarians out of whole cloth -The way we talk now,Geoffrey Nunberg

Mother poem

I recognised Kim Addonizio of Ordinary Genius: a guide for the poet within
The matter
Lucifer at the Starlite

The Turquoise ledge

Reading of author's experience of being photographed in old time dresses, I was reminded of a trip in Kulu Manali where we draped indigenous clothing to have a picture of us taken. Even silly seeming things done on trips find a place in memory.

Ofelia zepeda
Proclamation
Her account of saving a rattlesnake stuck in a net is riveting.

ground catching fire

The bees have lost their stores of food in the hive, and now they want me to feed them until their scouts locate a new site for their hive.

Fascicle

Up until now, the one thing I knew about Dickinson was her much quoted death poem. I did see that there was a number associated with another poem.
With Dickinson, her mystery is coming under light.
Poets thinking
Henry Fuseli

Sirocco in It was not death
Shelleyan maenad

Staples in The Soul has Bandaged moments

Heard of her, reading now

In the beginning of Revenge, I am reminded of Dream of the evil servant poem.

Myth

That gooseberries on the front door repel snakes
Yesterday at Satya Narayana vratam,
The family who held the pooja
Offered gooseberries to the Brahman
An old lady gets ready to chase the Brahman
‘Its auspicious to touch the feet of a Brahman
In the month of Kaarthika!’

Designing Life

A term of Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a further life
Erikson's stages of development
Imru'u l Qays