NOTE This photo was taken by Waukesha Freeman reporter
Lauren Anderson along with an article also done by her last week
about having fun in the waning days of summer.
Please pay attention to the "been around a long time"
city to city, town to town condition of the smiling effigy.
Please pay attention to the "been around a long time"
city to city, town to town condition of the smiling effigy.
These are old amusement ride creatures
gathered at the Paul Bobrowitz outdoor art gallery
where he has hundreds of his metal sculptures,
Colgate Wis.
Go, take the children.
this ring being iron netted me nothing, until now.
a museum piece
This ring which you see in the SRN weekly
is the realest of things
symbolizing my biggest of all time win ~
Denise Means ~ so far a 33 year great 'ride'
save my own iron shortcomings
Here she is mothering our children
at the Walworth Co. Fair attended with the Helts.
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This just in:
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Allow me to give you a quick wake-up call
"Creak me out!"
This morning he awoke around the usual time
and coming to near regular level of wakefulness
and facing toward the door out of the bedroom
~ away from Dee's side of the bed ~
he was heard to holler:
WHAT ARE YA DOING?
This is what he says often
when he believes Dee may be gone
off to get coffee at the Cup
or off to work more likely
leaving him to peaceful slumber
quiet as a mouse so not to disquiet
his normal way of waking up
gradually, at his own pace
retired old-timer that he is
However he was still floating in never-
never land and without reaching his hand
over himself to her side of the bed
he jolted awake and shouted
his What Are Ya Doing?
Dee was inches away and still asleep
but perforce woke with an slightly irked start:
I'M RIGHT HERE!
They dissolved together in laughter,
Dee's old partner mis-spoke:
"Creak me out!"
He meant Creep me out
but had it right
the first time.
[photos taken at La Quinta Inn, Appleton WI, 2015]
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VERY dried Rose of Sharon
gathered into a plastic bag as a walk was
around a favorite WVA destination
on Wheeling Island, boundary between
Ohio and West Virginia
a struggling reclamation of old gentility
gotten to by crossing the old suspension bridge
which is historic, also herein:
Mood fits Raccoonwise with Crescent City album; Paul Weston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zCGMtZL7x8
and
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=esplanade%20at%20sunset%20weston
and
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=esplanade%20at%20sunset%20weston
^,^
| VII
by Mark Strand Listen Online
Oh you can make fun of the splendors of moonlight,
But what would the human heart be if it wanted Only the dark, wanted nothing on earth
But the sea’s ink or the rock’s black shade?
On a summer night to launch yourself into the silver Emptiness of air and look over the pale fields
At rest under the sullen stare of the moon,
And to linger in the depths of your vision and wonder How in this whiteness what you love is past
Grief, and how in the long valley of your looking
Hope grows, and there, under the distant, Barely perceptible fire of all the stars,
To feel yourself wake into change, as if your change
Were immense and figured into the heavens’ longing. And yet all you want is to rise out of the shade
Of yourself into the cooling blaze of a summer night
When the moon shines and the earth itself Is covered and silent in the stoniness of its sleep. "VII" by Mark Strand from New Selected Poems. © Knopf, 2007   |
