Poetry; Roof, up on the; Life; B'day; Runny eggs; Privacy, invasion of; Sign unto you, let this be a

Luke

by Mary Oliver

I had a dog

   who loved flowers.

         Briskly she went

              through the fields,

yet paused

   for the honeysuckle

         or the rose,

                   her dark head

and her wet nose

   touching

         the face

                     of every one

with its petals

   of silk,

         with its fragrance

              rising

into the air

       where the bees,

         their bodies

                        heavy with pollen,

hovered—

     and easily

             she adored

                        every blossom,

not in the serious,

   careful way

              that we choose

                                            this blossom or that blossom—

the way we praise or don't praise—

   the way we love

         or don't love—

              but the way

we long to be—

   that happy

                            in the heaven of earth—

                            that wild, that loving.

"Luke" by Mary Oliver from Dog Songs. © Penguin, 2013

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Nonsense Song

by W. H. Auden

My love is like a red red rose
Or concerts for the blind,
She's like a mutton-chop before
And a rifle-range behind.

Her hair is like a looking-glass,
Her brow is like a bog,
Her eyes are like a flock of sheep
Seen through a London fog.

Her nose is like an Irish jig,
Her mouth is like a 'bus,
Her chin is like a bowl of soup
Shared between all of us.

Her form divine is like a map
Of the United States,
Her foot is like a motor-car
Without its number-plates.

No steeple-jack shall part us now
Nor fireman in a frock;
True love could sink a Channel boat
Or knit a baby's sock.

"Nonsense Song" by W.H. Auden from As I Walked Out One Evening. © Vintage Books, 1995

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I had a deck in Waukesha

("I had a farm in Africa....." Isak Dinesen)

http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2008/08/when-this-old-world-starts-getting-you.html

James Taylor



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Life is like that:

https://www.youtube.com/v/XBEyCr5AoIs

Rec'd 2-21-14
from Raccoon reader
Rev. Dr. Tom Bentz, UCC New Jersey
with thanks

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From Laurie in AK:

play http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjF1bG5LUcs

Rec'd 2-21-14:

Her shelter video:  
http://vimeo.com/83239145
.......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN4r_ZUzl5g

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Runny eggs and toast

As Downtown denizens
Dee and I sometimes catch breakfast
at Dady-oh's in the old Metropolitan.
[Why they did not spell Daddy right
I do not know]

Dee likes to order two eggs over easy
and to dip her toast in the egg yolks.

The other day we were in there
and saw the partitions the Kruegers
are erecting between the booths
on the Broadway wall.

We sat there admiring the recycled
windows that form part of the
partitions-to-be.

We'll be back to see the finished product
soon.

The downtown district
just keeps getting better.
We're glad to be living here!
Ask us.

For more info on the Morton's Salt waitress
at Dady-Oh's
See:

http://raccoonnews.blogspot.com/2012/06/raccoons-return-to-favored-haunts-salt.html

scroll down to it
when you pull up the link

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KD's privacy invaded

She comes out, having been disturbed.

We have a traveling box KD gets put in

when she goes to the humane shelter

for her monthly claw-clip.

She runs like crazy on those Saturdays

when she sees the box coming out of the storeroom.

Very hard for us to corner her.

She prefers staying here at the Odd Fellows.

But now we've cleverly left the box

in the upstairs hall where she likes to nap.

She frequently now hangs out in the box.

It has become her friendly and private cove.

It will be right there for her to ride in,

an accustomed place

when she gets her nails done next time.

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Election signs

 We now have our signs for Shawn Reilly

candidate for Mayor of Waukesha

and Brian Running for City Attorney

looking down at the Five Points major intersection.

We are proud to lend these windows to the

candidates at this critical time in Waukesha's life.

For us with the super-tall windows

and our 18 feet ceilings in the front room

the political signage blends right in

and is easy to live with for the few weeks

before the general election.

Our new windows were installed

earlier this week and are dazzling!

The Putney Building is the jewel in

the crown of the Five Points.