Welcome back with a big bow wow and with a poem to set me thinking. sally J
>From: Gary Blankenship <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: New: Memories of an Old Chinese Proverb
>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:17:31 -0700
>
>The dawg is back...
>
>Memories of an Old Chinese Proverb
>
>*At the start of Korea's confict,
>General MacArthur
>issued no winter clothing
>because the war would be over by summer.*
>
>Starlings trill their simple summer tune
>as songbirds avalanche
>from cobalt-flavored skies -
>blue,
>scarlet,
>brown,
>oriole orange
>and gray.
>
>There are no horses in California,
>only rodeo clowns
>whose make-up drips on faded tickets
>to a show that will close before it opens.
>
>*The number of cases of "that old TB"
>is on the rise, perhaps in conjunction with
>the heterosexual disease Aids or*
>
>because the ice at Barrow melts earlier each year.
>
>An otter mother wraps her child
>in kelp
>before she dives Kachemak Bay
>for another fisherman's catch.
>
>Does she miss Prince William Sound
>and the cry of sea urchins
>beneath Columbia Glacier's bergs?
>
>Spruce beetles march
>down the Tanana, Peace and Laird
>to discover
>how much they like white pine and popular.
>
>*The survival rate for meningitis
>is less today
>than when a serum was developed
>the beginning of the last century.*
>
>I hear the ring neck call the morning sun
>and the sound of frost
>as a saw whines cutting winter's wood .
>
>In a cave in Kenya,
>an ancient
>life-form waits its turn on the wheel
>
>as I brew a second pot of coffee
>
>and forget the pictogram
>for dawn.
>
>
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