Quoted in the Grove:
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
~GK Chesterton
Well, and what’s cheese? Corpse of milk.
~James Joyce
Cheese – milk’s leap toward immortality.
~Clifton Fadiman
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Posted from the Grove:
Not much happening in the grove this week, so this gives us a chance to try a single-person exercise, a word game for one
Read the following poem, not aloud. Let the words tumble around in your mouth, in your mind. Silently. Feel the pressure of their sounds on your tongue. It’s a happy reinterpretation of a classic from childhood. Do this a couple times, then overlay it with the poem you remember from your puppy days. Hear them echo, feel them vibrate to each other’s difference
Scintillate, scintillate globule vivific
Fain would I fathom thy nature specific
Loftily perched in the ether capacious
Strongly resembling a gem carbonaceous*
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Prewritten for Thurs (02/27) at 6 pm Pacific/9 Eastern is: a picture
http://ishtari.arcticworlds3d.com/pics/mechfae.jpg
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@Writers Platform
Glass Table: No new drops
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Prewritten: carbon, trousers
~Stejovis: Lacuna Redux
It’s no longer global warming but climate change that crippled his town; a local resident, a DC pol, assures voter that Wash will help pay and fix everything and look, the sun is out; but some things are gone forever
~Greymane: Carbon
Born of star dust, warriors and pioneers of their race, daughters of the universe guided by Unseen hands; blessed, and still their destiny is in question
~Piffin: “Rockette, man!” many feet later, rhythmic legs
~BarTalk: thermostat
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Impromptu: money, feelings
~Piffin: “Fanfare” the grand discovery of life, its end
~Greymane: untitled
The foolish old man versus a world gone grey; pinkies win against the pallid and the world is happy to pay
~Stejovis: Delores
The eyes-bright smile of recognition, then … nothing; the mind has gone to ground in wilderness, returns to visit less often of late, and now must survive alone
~BarTalk: the transaction
*Geologist’s reading of: Twinkle twinkle little star
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