tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26005155890884358132024-02-18T21:41:46.165-08:00AtticusWorksDan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-58919909679311241822010-08-01T06:59:00.000-07:002010-08-01T07:04:05.171-07:00Atticusworks has moved to wordpress<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Atticusworks has moved to:</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://atticusworks.wordpress.com/"></a></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><a href="http://atticusworks.wordpress.com/"></a></span><div><a href="http://atticusworks.wordpress.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">atticusworks.wordpress.com</span></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Hope to see you there!</span></div></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-84442490412033589382010-05-19T14:27:00.001-07:002010-05-19T14:27:51.847-07:00Dog/Manna ~ Collom Lune<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; "><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium; ">My dog only</span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium; ">eats ice off the floor</span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium; ">he's a purist</span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></span></p></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-76061889066160876922010-05-19T09:10:00.000-07:002010-05-19T09:13:50.545-07:00Rabbit Dusk<em><span style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><span style="font-family:georgia;"><em>fearing the barn owl,</em><br /><em>small rabbit</em><br /><em>scans a sanguine sky</em><br /><em></em></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="color:#ffffff;">.<br /><em></em></span><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><em></em><br /><br /><em></em>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-62306753872968300332010-05-08T07:14:00.001-07:002010-05-08T07:14:35.814-07:00String Theory ~ A Calder<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div class="articleText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 15px; "><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.........................</span>A Can,</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.......................................................</span>a universe</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...........</span>and a String</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...................................../////...............</span>for every possibility</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">........................................</span>there is a world</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...........................................................................................</span>that is,</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">............................................................................................. .</span>exactly<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...........ll</span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); ">like</span></span>..</span>this</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">..</span>one<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...............................................</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.</span>in which</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">................................................................................................ ....</span> since</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">..............................................................</span>you didn't die<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">............. ...............</span>the sun is</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.....................................................................</span>Everything,<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.......................</span>the same:</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">....................................................................</span>that universe was,</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">..................................................................................................</span>is, this:</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.............................................................</span>you didn't die</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.....................................................................................................................</span>assume</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...................................................................................................................</span>one</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...</span>this</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">............................</span>never really</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">................................</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.</span>existed for you at all,</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.....................................</span>a long distance<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">.........</span>can<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...........................................................</span>call,</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">............</span>and a string,<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...........................................</span>from</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...................................................................................................,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,..</span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">....................................................................................................................</span>the void</p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">...............................</span>a can</p><div style="text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Arial, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><div><br /></div></div></span>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-21363039900828820342010-05-01T10:09:00.000-07:002010-05-01T10:10:55.313-07:00She Greets the Night in Moonlit Robes ~ Tan Renga<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; "><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0em !important; margin-right: 0em !important; margin-bottom: 0em !important; margin-left: 0em !important; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><br /></span></span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0em !important; margin-right: 0em !important; margin-bottom: 0em !important; margin-left: 0em !important; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><br /></span></span></span></em></p><br /><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">She sheds moonlit robes.</span></span></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Whispering grass ushers out</span></span></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">the iodine dusk.</span></span></span></em></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><br /></span></span></span></em></p><div><span><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 16px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">A Barn Owl scans the meadow</span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 16px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">moving slower than honey.</span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></i></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: 16px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><br /></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></div></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-89061760229586796352010-04-25T15:12:00.000-07:002010-04-25T20:10:19.052-07:00Unbowed<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">the fields of grass sway</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">under rush of morning breeze</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">long blades bow deeper</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><br /></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">we walk a narrow pathway</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">inhaling the victory</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p></span></span>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-34199569092450713552010-04-25T05:43:00.000-07:002010-04-25T05:44:59.472-07:00Why You Cut Up Your Poem ~ An Explanation of the Calder Form in Verse<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; "><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; "><div class="commentTextContainer commentText" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 8px; "><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">......................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">I</span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">................................................................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">don't</span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">understand</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">........................................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">know</span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">.............................................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">why</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">...................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">you</span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">..................................................................................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">cut</span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">.................................................................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">up your</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">..........................</span></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">...............................</span></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">...............................................................................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">poem</span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">...........................................................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">why</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">...............................................</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">"</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">cut"</span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">...</span></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">.</span></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">.........................................................................................</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">meaning</span></span></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">......................................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">why</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">...............</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">your</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">...............</span></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">.....................................................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">poem?</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">..............................................</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">what?</span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">so horribly.</span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">............................................>.</span></span></span><span style="font-size: small; "><span style="font-size: small; ">Command Z</span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></div><div class="fullComment"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: italic; ">Poetry, regardless of how seriously it is written should be taken with a smile and a grain of salt. The world doesn't really make a good deal of sense to us, that's why we write poems. We seek to establish an order to our minds, not the world around us.</span></span></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-29115339304013076122010-04-23T19:37:00.000-07:002010-04-23T19:57:37.256-07:00Sage ~ A Haibun<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal; "></span></span></span></i></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">We've planted a sage.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Light rain graces the flowers,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">amethyst petals</span></span></em></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div></span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"></span></i></span><p></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'lucida grande';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Those who observed saw the world around her burst into color. She could not be darkened. In her house, every room was a different vibrant hue. In the front room was a sharp aquamarine; the hall, a deep rose madder; where she ate, a brilliant cadmium lemon. She was only tempered by candle and silhouette on the amethyst curtains and walls.</span></span></p><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></div></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-7672185410743681332010-04-22T20:01:00.000-07:002010-04-22T20:03:25.175-07:00Remember Earth? ~ A Tritina<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span><br /><br /><br /><br /><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><br /></span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><br /></span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><br /></span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">The glint of the sun is sharper than the wing</span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">as it cuts the tufted blue troposphere of earth.</span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">She is smaller, yet grander than I remember.</span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><br /></span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">The patchwork, field and farm, I remember,</span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">the forests, and the lakes under a steady wing,</span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">the lift and the drag, and the consent of earth.</span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><br /></span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">A man once, but his luggage is there, on earth.</span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">Now aerial and feathered, will she remember,</span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">as I vault the empyrean, turning on a wing?</span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><br /></span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">A bird, wind over wing, I have left the earth. Remember?</span></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p></span>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-41326609828711169302010-04-21T19:04:00.000-07:002010-04-21T19:07:05.120-07:00You Hear A Blackbird ~ Parallelismus Membrorum<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; "><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; "><span style="font-size: x-small; "><em><span style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; ">You hear the blackbird;</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; ">tune out rough twitter.</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; ">The river runs chill;</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; ">embrace the assault.</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; ">Follow mountain rising;</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; ">don't carry the dead.</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; ">Climb an open sky;</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; ">remember the night.</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; ">Blackbird by a river;</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><em><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva; ">gather some berries.</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> .</span></p><p></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> .</span></p></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-32505093750323675002010-04-18T07:47:00.001-07:002010-04-18T08:00:12.212-07:00To Care for a Dog with Two Legs<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p style=" margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family:'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, sans-serif;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span style=" ;font-size:large;"><span style=" ;font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />Once she was a circle of yellow,<br />herding us along the beach.<br />Now she looks up at me,<br />from the sling around her hips,<br />a yellow lump of dog<br />walking on her front legs.<br />Do I detect gratitude? Or was that<br />"How much longer are you<br />going to make me do this?"<br />She is still beautiful.<br />She will not recover. She is old.<br />She whines all night.<br />Somehow, she is less yellow,<br />but seems more like a circle.</span></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;color:#404040;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></span></div></span>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-4205808186767502442010-04-17T17:17:00.000-07:002010-04-17T17:23:58.362-07:00Red Sky ~ A Calder<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">..........................</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">red</span></em></span></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">garden</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">..................</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">sky is</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">...............................</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">full</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.....</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">of redbirds</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">..............</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">returning,</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.........</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">earthbound</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.....................................</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">hands, earth</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">...........</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">observe</span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.................................</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a</span></em></span></span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">................................</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">redbird</span></em></span></span></span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">........................................................</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">returning</span></em></span></span></span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></em></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.................................</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> to</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.......................</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">us,</span></em></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.............................................................................................</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">to</span></em></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; "><span><span><span style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">...................................................................................</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">earth</span></em></span></span></span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><br /></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:x-small;">For Ann and James</span></em></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div></span>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-53031963673453657952010-04-16T14:21:00.000-07:002010-04-17T10:46:34.291-07:00Sonnet?....I'm on it! ~ A Silly Italian Sonnet<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12;" class="Apple-style-span" > <p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)" size="12px" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)" size="12px" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br /><br /><br /></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Would you like it from a box? Would you like it wearing sox?</span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Italian Sonnet songs I say, they're really not my thing.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Should I write about a king? Or a mystic sacred ring?</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Should I write about little girl and a crafty fox?</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Hey!, maybe I could write about Paul Bunion and his ox!</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">No, …How about deep out in space - the evil ruler Ming?</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Ahhh, this sonnet thing I tell you…I might as well grow wings.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">It’s big and ugly, scary too; Upon me it’s a pox, ...I swear, ............It’s like a bag of rocks!</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68); FONT-SIZE: 12px"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><br /><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Oh, ye of little tiny faith, Wouldst that thou would cool thy jets!</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">"Old English" speak I have no doubt, could surely rescue thee.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">But if you don’t include that phrase, you’ll greatly feel regrets</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">- you know you could write anything and call it "Sonnet", see?</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">Break out your pipe and slippers boy, your wit will soon be whet!</span></span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;">The poem you write will as good as <em>cacio sui maccheroni</em> be!</span></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px;font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" class="MsoNormal" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#ffffff;">.</span></i></span></span></p></span>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-417844188951287132010-04-15T15:11:00.000-07:002010-04-15T17:37:52.726-07:00Conflagration: Peshtigo, Wisconsin 1871 ~ A Villanelle<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Smoke blocked out the sun, and the moon rose red,</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the wood and the heavens all set ablaze.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">firestorm raged o'er the bless'd and the dead.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Long drought and sawdust, the demons were fed,</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">refuge was sought in the maelstrom fire maze.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Smoke blocked out the sun and the moon rose red.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Through cinder and ash, the silence of dread</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">,</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">no town to withstand this power to raze.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The firestorm raged o'er the bless'd and the dead.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In rivers we boiled as we bobbed our heads,</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a </span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">fate to be feared by any who pray.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Smoke blocked the sun and the moon rose red.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">From Green Bay reborn, the half-drowned were led,</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">city of ash in the north burned for days.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The firestorm raged o'er the bless'd and the dead.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Faith ignited, and by the lucky shed,</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">legend now hides them 'neath smoldering haze.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Smoke blocked out the sun and the moon rose red.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); "><em><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The firestorm raged o'er the bless'd and the dead.</span></span></span></span></em></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#333333;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#333333;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#333333;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#333333;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#333333;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#333333;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;color:#333333;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style=" margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"> .</span></p></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-89387710176664006562010-04-14T15:51:00.000-07:002010-04-14T15:57:00.694-07:00Arctic Zion ~ A Double Helix Abecedarian<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-indent: 0in !important; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; padding-top: 0em !important; padding-right: 0em !important; padding-bottom: 0em !important; padding-left: 0em !important; text-align: center; line-height: 13.5pt; "></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;color:#444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:100%;color:#444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Arctic Zone:</span></i></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Beyond Your</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Crystal</span></i></span><span style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Xylophones,</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Desert White</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Erases Value.</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Fire</span></i></span><span style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Under</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Glass, These</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hibernal Seascapes</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ignite Rarified</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Jewels, Quicksilver</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Kaleidoscopes, Pale</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Lunar Opulence!</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Men Need</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Never</span></i></span><span style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">More</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Only</span></i></span><span style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Love</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Perennial Kingdoms,</span></i></span><span style="text-indent: 0in !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></i></span></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Quiet Jungles,</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Rainforest Islands</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">See How</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Timeless Glaciers</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Unfold Forever,</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Vaulting Ethereal</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">While Diving</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Xemes Careen </span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Yearning. Below:</span></i></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size:12px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Zion Alone</span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">.</span></i></span></span></div></span><p></p></span>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-6067409822263122612010-04-13T10:20:00.001-07:002010-04-13T10:22:38.968-07:00First Clown ~ A Rime Couee<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"> </span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" ;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span style=" ;font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); ">Ribbons, balloons are red and rife</span>.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size:9pt;"><span style=" ;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span style=" ;font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">Shock locks and beak ball tell of strife.</span></span></span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size:9pt;"><span style=" ;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span style=" ;font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">Those shoes could cruise a lake!</span></span></span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size:9pt;"><span style=" ;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span style=" ;font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">With covert threat upon my life,</span></span></span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size:9pt;"><span style=" ;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span style=" ;font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">He cuts at me his carving knife,</span></span></span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size:9pt;"><span style=" ;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span style=" ;font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">and says “You want some cake?”</span></span></span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><span><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></em></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">~</span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">dedicated to evil clowns everywhere</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">.</span></span></div></span>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-11488711243664233382010-04-12T13:43:00.000-07:002010-04-12T13:49:46.074-07:00Bird Game ~ Fibonacci<em><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Bird<br />game<br />She/He<br />He saw her.<br />She saw him seeing.<br />He felt her seeing was something.<br />She knew his feeling was something she wanted to grow.<br />He took flight as the air between them grew thick with knowing that she saw something in him.</span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-19282239799104383202010-04-11T14:22:00.000-07:002010-04-11T15:09:14.320-07:00Pictures of The Long Bien Bridge<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If I thought about him much,</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I'd have wondered if he was alive.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I thought for sure he would end up</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">at the bottom of some bridge,</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">having jumped off, or maybe asleep in a box.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He was a friend among other friends,</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">but the part that I saw</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">of myself in him, was drowning.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He was wilder, and more dangerous,</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and that is saying a lot.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">When he left he wasn't turning</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">from the razor's edge, he was cutting</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">his way across, one bloody step at a time</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">like it was the last bridge on earth</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">across the dark river.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It is strange the currents we choose</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and the places we are taken,</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">thinking we are swept away</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">in rough tidewater,</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">unable to swim</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">or navigate the deluge.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Maybe sometimes we know,</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">deeply from the mud and the silt,</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">that the floodplain can scrub</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the surface that refuses</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">to be anything but intolerable.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We were just hoping to come up</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">someplace for air.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Last night he came up</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">in a conversation</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">across The Long Bien Bridge.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He has a new life on dry land,</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">anchored in the floodplains of Hanoi.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I saw his photographs and I knew.</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" ;font-size:x-small;"><em>~ for an old friend who built a fantastic life on the floodplain.</em></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:x-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-51679525356538705282010-04-09T10:13:00.000-07:002010-04-09T12:17:01.791-07:00Sucker ~ A Pantoum<span style="LINE-HEIGHT: 18px;font-size:12;" class="Apple-style-span" > <p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">“Aye lad, the evidence was on it real good”</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">He said with a crooked, half-toothed smile;</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">he said it like a fishless, fisherman would,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">like a cop on a crime just brought to trial.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><em><span style="font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;">.</span></em></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><em><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"></span></em></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">He said it with a crooked, half-toothed smile</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">in his way, a sweaty, short, salty sailor sort.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">But like a cop on a crime, just brought to trial:</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">“Goin’ back out thar, soon as we’re in port”</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><em><span style="font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;">.</span></em></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><em><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"></span></em></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">He was sweaty and short, a salty sailor sort,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">balancing a knife, by the point, in his hand,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">“Goin’ back out thar, soon as we’re in port.”</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">“S’more down below than sea and the sand.”</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><em><span style="font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;">.</span></em></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><em><span style="font-family:Georgia;font-size:100%;"></span></em></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">Balancing a knife, by the point, in his hand,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">with a tear in the eye for his love lost at sea</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">“S’more down below than sea and the sand.”</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">“I ‘spec thar’s an octopus twixt she and me.”</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><em><span style="font-size:100%;color:#ffffff;">.</span></em></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ></p><p style="MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px;font-size:12px;" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">With a tear in the eye for his love lost at sea,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">he said it like a fishless, fisherman would</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">“I ‘spec thar’s an octopus twixt she and me.”</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-size:10;"><em><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;">“Aye lad, the evidence was on it real good.”</span></span></em></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10pxfont-size:12px;" align="center" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px" align="center" size="12px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; FONT-SIZE: 12px" align="center"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px; COLOR: rgb(68,68,68)font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;" align="center" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></p></span>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-1240585542607698122010-04-08T09:54:00.000-07:002010-04-08T09:59:19.430-07:00History As Tool ~ A Rondeau<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"> </span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"> </span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">Virginia will celebrate the Confederacy!</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">and the brave men who died so fearlessly,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">ignoring the slavery and pain</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">brought about by the whip and the chain,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">and the tinder-box spark, Harpers Ferry.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"> </span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">After all we seceded so graciously,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">it could have all ended so peacefully.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">Let's just ignore the blame and the claim,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">if only to celebrate the Confederacy.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"> </span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">Our Generals in war stood out peerlessly,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">as men in shoddy gear died so cheerlessly</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">defending the slave owner’s gain.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">- But don’t call the Governor insane.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">It’s a political calculation, you see,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">the audacity to celebrate the Confederacy.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;font-size:9pt;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"> </span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family:Verdana;"><em><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> (for Governor Bob McDonnell)</span></span></em></span></p></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-5108347996272739972010-04-07T10:09:00.000-07:002010-04-07T10:11:30.569-07:00Red Bird Return<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><br /></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"> </span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">Out in our garden,</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">your hands and the smell of earth.</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;">A red bird observes.</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="12px" style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"> </span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style=" ;font-family:georgia, palatino;"><em><span style=" ;font-size:medium;"> </span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style=" ;font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><em>~for Becky, whose mother visits us in spring as a cardinal.</em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><i><br /></i></span></p></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-86340715689386682812010-04-06T09:46:00.000-07:002010-04-06T09:47:12.618-07:00Woman / Water ~ A Cinquain<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; "><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "> </span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'book antiqua', palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; ">Jesus:</span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">What have you done?</span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">You travel a hard road.</span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">I am blessed by your hair and tears,</span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">Woman</span></span></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: left; "><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 9pt; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: medium; "> </span></span></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div></span>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-62642525924735987552010-04-05T10:34:00.000-07:002010-04-05T10:36:12.516-07:00The Great Garbage Strike Tornado ~ Triolet<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; "><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">I’ll never forget the great garbage tornado</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">that trashed Manhattan in nineteen eighty three.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">It began uncollecting from rot piles in SoHo,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">We'll not soon forget the great garbage tornado,</span></span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Omnivorous Eddy, the landfill dynamo.</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">When the city was hostage, the mayor held the key,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">never to forget the great garbage tornado,</span></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><em><span style="font-size: medium; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">oh, stinky Manhattan, nineteen eighty three!</span></span></em></span></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia, palatino;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-19008772122407794352010-04-04T17:25:00.000-07:002010-04-04T17:26:55.294-07:00For Martin ~ A Tritina<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); "><div class="articleText" style="line-height: 18px; margin-top: 15px; "><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">When he came down from the mountain,</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">he wasn't worried anymore; his joy was not withheld.<br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">He knew the struggle would take them home.<br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">Not again to ride in the rear of these buses home.</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">Without him, they would cross the mountain,</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">prejudice, abuse, mistrust, and murder, finally withheld.<br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">In the promised land, grace will not be withheld;</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">together, we will find our freedom's home.<br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">We will know his courage, when we cross the mountain.<br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><span style="font-size: medium; ">He saw it all from the mountain; the promise not withheld, and the bullet that would take him home.</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: x-small; "><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: x-small; ">Martin Luther King was assassinated at 6:01 April 4th, 1968</span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div></div></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600515589088435813.post-9088462185262835102010-04-03T13:50:00.001-07:002010-04-03T13:50:49.532-07:00Quarry<div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 18px; "><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><br /></span></em></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Sunlight surrounds her</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">like limestone dust on the air.</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Transfixed, she waits.</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; "><br /></span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">Again, the red maples bud</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><em><span style="font-family: georgia, palatino; ">under shelter of the oak.</span></em></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: medium; "><br /></span></p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><p style="color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; "> </p><div><br /></div></span></div>Dan Collins (Atticusworks)http://www.blogger.com/profile/06747191460370681923noreply@blogger.com0