When wanderers case to roam

Alexander von Humboldt
Not sunny Donegal Bay
pony glass
hosta plants

A mosaic of routine and ordinary feelings, things, exotic hike aways, facts about travellers who 'stay put'.
The illustrations of different mud land, different rains with the drops gathering in puddles, sliding down the window or sticking slantly have a momentary quality.
Colorful mittens, shoes, tea cups all urge you to get snug in a comforter with loads of tea.
The illustrations are not all in colour and on paper - Taking a blind cat to a garden so it can sniff the flowers - imagining this leaves the reader with an image of a making of their own.

The financial expert by R K Narayan

The craft and soul of writing

Table Talk

After Derek Walcott's, Horoscopes for the dead by Billy Collins was a welcome.



The Flaneur reminded me of his consolation poem about a missed vacation. Making the ordinary as preferred as the other.



My favourite poem in this book is Table talk

Pillow for four elbows

I catch sight
of the sud in your ear

your blind spot mirror

Harvest poems
Vachel Lindsay
Villon

coin of the realm in Now they bury her again

When the coin reaches the stem of the funnel, it increases in size.

Slouching towards Bethlehem

A long line of cells