Saturday, March 28, 2015

The tree that would not be broken; Jose; Reprintables; Ritual Waters




I caught this the oher day
on the NY Times

Definitely worth a play:









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Not bad
for a "blind" guy

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU2wHIwf_70

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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmyQOq4MAdY

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAs7U1dyesQ

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Waukesha raccoon sees the good news
Reprinted 
from THE WAUKESHA FREEMAN 
3-25-15

Reprinted
from the Shepherd Express 3-26-15

Also reprinted from
Shepherd Express
3-26-15

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The mighty Fox River now sees the young Burmese father
At its banks communing with the moving water
Which flows like the Ihrewhaddy in his homeland
Slowly but surely, and it has fish

Hla rides my bicycle – now his -  in spare moments and continues
His pursuit of a livelihood at the Fox River
The other day he told me he caught eight big fish
“How big?” -  and he held his thumbs and middle fingers together
to represent girth

instead of  hands far apart to represent length
the way we do around here
which said he is thinking of food
where fishermen of my acquaintance usually are thinking of a trophy

How wonderful to think of Hla riding my bicycle to the river
With a fishing pole
Catching fish that struggle to survive in slowly clearing water
Fish to feed his boys who also like to catch and eat fish, as in Burma

In olden days and even now sometimes we see
Milwaukee (?) blacks and pore folks at the riverbanks and lakeshores
in Waukesha County – they aren’t from around here -
hunkered down, usually, so as not to stand out

fishing “our” recreational waters
for food, smiling furtively beneath broad straw hat-brims
when they snag one that would bring their hands
around in big O’s;
And well-to-do locals motor by and cluck their tongues and say:
“Just look at that!”

[David Dix 9-14-2002]


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