for Shay
ROOTS
A branch of our 10 year old
geranium
broke off due to hanging over
the ledge
at a stressful
angle
I snipped it clean with a
sharp scissors
and immersed it in clear
water
albeit in a magnificent
hanging vase
and even though our light is
limited
here,
soon there were roots anew,
galore
D. Zep
5-26-12
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Dawn breaks over the Odd Fellows 5-25-12
In A Dark Time
In a dark time, the eye begins to see,
I meet my shadow in the deepening
shade;
I hear my echo in the echoing wood—
A lord of nature weeping to a
tree.
I live between the heron and the wren,
Beasts of the hill and
serpents of the den.
What's madness but nobility of soul
At odds with
circumstance? The day's on fire!
I know the purity of pure despair,
My
shadow pinned against a sweating wall.
That place among the rocks—is it a
cave,
Or a winding path? The edge is what I have.
A steady storm of
correspondences!
A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon,
And in broad
day the midnight come again!
A man goes far to find out what he is—
Death
of the self in a long, tearless night,
All natural shapes blazing unnatural
light.
Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
My soul, like some
heat-maddened summer fly,
Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
A
fallen man, I climb out of my fear.
The mind enters itself, and God the
mind,
And one is One, free in the tearing wind.
"In A Dark Time" by Theodore Roethke, from Collected
Poems. © Knopf Doubleday, 1961
The YIBAWEan official emblem
admits full light of day
or presides darkly, unilluminated, by night.
It is there when we need it.
We know it is there, just as our auto license plate
has proclaimed and reminded sharers of the road
for many years.
for many years.
Yes I'm Bald And What Else?
The stained glass emblem in our current window has graced other domiciles. It was made by the late lamented Dee and Bob Heeschen
of St. Paul MN and presented to us with the gusto of their chosen word, 'HEY'. I served in the US Army with Bob in Chicago, 1958 -1962.
A recent photo taken in Waukesha shows Bob is still only a Friend of the Bald (FOB). But a GOOD one!
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The stained glass emblem in our current window has graced other domiciles. It was made by the late lamented Dee and Bob Heeschen
of St. Paul MN and presented to us with the gusto of their chosen word, 'HEY'. I served in the US Army with Bob in Chicago, 1958 -1962.
A recent photo taken in Waukesha shows Bob is still only a Friend of the Bald (FOB). But a GOOD one!
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