Hopper street [DTLA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 29 January 2018
Times Square cops: photo by Andrew Murr, 27 January 2018
Street | Seen through a wet windscreen! [Larvik, Vestfold Fylke, Norway]: photo by astrid westvang, 22 January 2018
Street | Seen through a wet windscreen! [Larvik, Vestfold Fylke, Norway]: photo by astrid westvang, 22 January 2018
By ship board, winter evening
aneurysm or mine? Blizzard conditions, all but blinded
Went then to her place, the thane downhearted
Old Edgethrow by dockside wandering and sobbing there
battering upon boat hull with bent and broken buckler
bared the bench-boards abroad
spread beds and bolsters, poured wine for the warriors
Wyrd they knew not, they banging on the board
wyrd they anyway were already, ever since boarding.
Hurry on Hrothgar, homeward hasten away, one too many high gravity lager
past your bedtime old buddy, rest that heavy old dome, as erst was done.
They were clansmen good. One beer-carouser, frozen solid
beneath Steel Reserve burden, bound to their sovran king under drifted snow
in danger of doom lay down in the oarlock, destiny unmissed,
Old mural, fresh threat [eastside, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 28 January 2018
Trumpgate [LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 28 January 2018
New Orleans: photo by Andrew Murr, 29 January 2018
From the series 'On and Around the Volcanic Plateau': photo by bobsan88, 12 September 2017
Containers [Larvik]: photo by astrid westvang, 5 January 2018
Containers [Larvik]: photo by astrid westvang, 5 January 2018
Containers [Larvik]: photo by astrid westvang, 5 January 2018
Containers [Larvik]: photo by astrid westvang, 5 January 2018
Containers [Larvik]: photo by astrid westvang, 5 January 2018
Containers [Larvik]: photo by astrid westvang, 5 January 2018
Container harbour [Larvik]: photo by astrid westvang, 19 January 2018
Container harbour [Larvik]: photo by astrid westvang, 19 January 2018
Container harbour [Larvik]: photo by astrid westvang, 19 January 2018
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, 19 January 2018
Albuquerque, New Mexico: photo by Jorge Guadalupe Lizárraga, 19 January 2018
Oildale, CA: photo by Mike Murphy, 29 December 2017
Oildale, CA: photo by Mike Murphy, 29 December 2017
Orland, California: photo by Andrew Murr, 14 August 2017
Viking was a Common Germanic word which appeared in Old English even before any Norse invasions could have taken place. The Old English form of it was wicing (from wic 'a settlement' and the termination -ing meaning something like 'pertaining to'), and the earliest sense, found in the early eighth century, was 'robber' or 'pirate', for settlements in those times were commonly brought about by force, and to the inhabitants displaced by them the new settlers seemed much like robbers.
-- C.L. Wrenn, The English Language (1949)
Shetland Isles, Scotland. Members of the Jarl Squad pose after marching through the streets in Lerwick during the Up Helly Aa Viking festival: photo by Jane Barlow/PA, 30 January 2018
Notice to road users: Always give way for a #Viking @UpHellyAa @Shetland #Lerwick #highwaycode: image via Bob Kerr @bob_kerr, 30 January 2018
Wishing we were at the Up Helly Aa celebrations tonight in Lerwick. A magnificent celebration of Scotland's wonderfully diverse culture. All the best to those involved from CABLE Magazine! #UpHellyAa #Shetland #Lerwick #Scotland #NorseUp #Viking #Nordic: image via Cable Magazine @Cable_mag, 30 January 2018
Check out my Viking helmet in @Sketchfab #Viking: image via PhantomFox @Gerbeedee, 30 January 2018
Monday! No worries, just Hammer Down! #MondayMotivation Shirt exclusively at #menswear #PVG Photo: @bdckool #HammerDown #viking: image via Pain vs Guilt @PainvsGuilt, 29 January 2018
Who Was the Exceptionally Powerfully Built #Viking Buried in the Gokstad Ship?: image via ancient-origins @ancientorigins, 26 January 2018
Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga, one wearing a mask, attend a mock "swearing-in" ceremony today at Uhuru Park in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. | Photo Ben Curtis: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 30 January 2018
SYRIA - Turkish air strikes pound Kurdish fighters in Syria. Syrian Kurds who were injured by Turkish airstrike on their village receive treatment at the hospital in Afrin. Photo @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 30 January 2018
An Afghan woman leaves the site of an attack at the Marshal Fahim academy in Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. Islamic State militants attacked Afghan soldiers guarding the military academy in the capital Kabul on Monday, killing at least 10 troops and wounding 16.: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP, 29 January 2018
Islamic State group claims attack on Kabul military compound#AFP
Picture taken today by @kohsar at the site of an attack near the Marshal Fahim Military Academy: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 29 January 2018
#Philippines Mudflow threat builds with more lava, debris from Philippine volcano #AFP Photo Ted Ajibe: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 30 January 2018
Such a perfect version of this characteristic gesture. The act famously stands for what makes Trump Trump: trash and gutter talk, doublespeak, and taking back what he or the party just said. Largely unsubstantial, a man who overrepresents the aside. Photo @evanvucci #Davos: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 29 January 2018
Three justices and "the accomplishment." #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Three justices and "the accomplishment." #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Hail to the limo. He's going with the (bipartisan) blue tie. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Love these profiles. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Buddy pic. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
2024, #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Heartburn. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
The opioid op. Still another intention devoid of policy or funding. #thewhitescourge #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
The cut-away profile on gangs #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Starting to do that annoying thing, staring over at Dems, or jutting arms as in: "what do you have to say?" #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Starting to do that annoying thing, staring over at Dems, or jutting arms as in: "what do you have to say?" #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Throws love at Gorsuch. The man eats glass. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
She never wanted this job. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Something about tax cuts. #SOTUBLACKOUT: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
African-American unemployment has reached the lowest levels ever. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
"Looking for common ground." #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
"Looking for common ground." #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Going to the guests early. And also mentions Melania. Peace. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
white, white, white, white, white, white #SOTU: image via Tom Zeller, Jr. @tomzellerjr, 30 January 2018
Something, something "the capital of Israel." #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Make no mistake, Trump is a good television actor. Love this screen shot as he appeals on high. Goes full Norman Vincent Peale. His narcissism blunts any story telling but someone sketched dozens of effective ones. And, they coached the anger out of him. Good for 2 hrs #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Northern Pacific Railway depot, Gardiner, Montana (postcard): Frank Jay Haynes, n.d., from National Park Service Photo Archive: image by Mike Cline, 2009
Northern Pacific Railway depot, Livingston, Montana: photo by Frank Jay Haynes, 1894: from Northern Pacific Views, Edward W. Nolan, 1983: image by Mike Cline, 2009
J.V. Cunningham (1911-1985): Montana Fifty Years Ago, from The Collected Poems and Epigrams, 1971
Spanish-American family waiting at the gate at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Cowboy at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Cowboys driving cows down rodeo grounds, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Contestant at Bean Day rodeo examining saddle, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
-- C.L. Wrenn, The English Language (1949)
Shetland Isles, Scotland. Members of the Jarl Squad pose after marching through the streets in Lerwick during the Up Helly Aa Viking festival: photo by Jane Barlow/PA, 30 January 2018
Notice to road users: Always give way for a #Viking @UpHellyAa @Shetland #Lerwick #highwaycode: image via Bob Kerr @bob_kerr, 30 January 2018
Wishing we were at the Up Helly Aa celebrations tonight in Lerwick. A magnificent celebration of Scotland's wonderfully diverse culture. All the best to those involved from CABLE Magazine! #UpHellyAa #Shetland #Lerwick #Scotland #NorseUp #Viking #Nordic: image via Cable Magazine @Cable_mag, 30 January 2018
Check out my Viking helmet in @Sketchfab #Viking: image via PhantomFox @Gerbeedee, 30 January 2018
Monday! No worries, just Hammer Down! #MondayMotivation Shirt exclusively at #menswear #PVG Photo: @bdckool #HammerDown #viking: image via Pain vs Guilt @PainvsGuilt, 29 January 2018
Who Was the Exceptionally Powerfully Built #Viking Buried in the Gokstad Ship?: image via ancient-origins @ancientorigins, 26 January 2018
Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga, one wearing a mask, attend a mock "swearing-in" ceremony today at Uhuru Park in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. | Photo Ben Curtis: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 30 January 2018
SYRIA - Turkish air strikes pound Kurdish fighters in Syria. Syrian Kurds who were injured by Turkish airstrike on their village receive treatment at the hospital in Afrin. Photo @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 30 January 2018
An Afghan woman leaves the site of an attack at the Marshal Fahim academy in Kabul, Afghanistan Monday, Jan. 29, 2018. Islamic State militants attacked Afghan soldiers guarding the military academy in the capital Kabul on Monday, killing at least 10 troops and wounding 16.: photo by Rahmat Gul/AP, 29 January 2018
Islamic State group claims attack on Kabul military compound
#Philippines Mudflow threat builds with more lava, debris from Philippine volcano #AFP Photo Ted Ajibe: image via AFP Photo @AFPphoto, 30 January 2018
Dunderking Regnant
President Donald Trump delivers his first State of the Union address: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 30 January 2018
Such a perfect version of this characteristic gesture. The act famously stands for what makes Trump Trump: trash and gutter talk, doublespeak, and taking back what he or the party just said. Largely unsubstantial, a man who overrepresents the aside. Photo @evanvucci #Davos: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 29 January 2018
Three justices and "the accomplishment." #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Three justices and "the accomplishment." #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Trey Gowdy. Scary. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Mrs. P working the mil. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Hail to the limo. He's going with the (bipartisan) blue tie. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Love these profiles. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Buddy pic. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
2024, #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Heartburn. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
The opioid op. Still another intention devoid of policy or funding. #thewhitescourge #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Looks to me like using the pain of others to score political points #SOTU2018
President Trump reads prepared remarks.#SOTU
Reading The Pictures Retweeted Philip Perdue
Reading The Pictures added,
And take shots at all those violent illegal Hispanics.
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
And take shots at all those violent illegal Hispanics.
image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
President Trump reads prepared remarks.
Reading The Pictures Retweeted The Daily Show
Reading The Pictures added,
Sourcing.image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
The cut-away profile on gangs #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Starting to do that annoying thing, staring over at Dems, or jutting arms as in: "what do you have to say?" #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Starting to do that annoying thing, staring over at Dems, or jutting arms as in: "what do you have to say?" #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Throws love at Gorsuch. The man eats glass. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
She never wanted this job. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Something about tax cuts. #SOTUBLACKOUT: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
African-American unemployment has reached the lowest levels ever. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
"Looking for common ground." #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
"Looking for common ground." #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Going to the guests early. And also mentions Melania. Peace. #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
white, white, white, white, white, white #SOTU: image via Tom Zeller, Jr. @tomzellerjr, 30 January 2018
Something, something "the capital of Israel." #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
Make no mistake, Trump is a good television actor. Love this screen shot as he appeals on high. Goes full Norman Vincent Peale. His narcissism blunts any story telling but someone sketched dozens of effective ones. And, they coached the anger out of him. Good for 2 hrs #SOTU: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 30 January 2018
J.V. Cunningham: Montana Fifty Years Ago
Northern Pacific Railway depot, Gardiner, Montana (postcard): Frank Jay Haynes, n.d., from National Park Service Photo Archive: image by Mike Cline, 2009
Gaunt kept house
with her child for the old man,
Met at the train, dust-driven as the sink
She came to, the child white as the alkali.
To the West distant mountains, the Big Lake
To the Northeast. Dead trees and almost dead
In the front yard, the front door locked and nailed,
A handpump in the sink. Outside, a land
Of gophers, cottontails and rattlesnakes,
In good years of alfalfa, oats and wheat.
Root cellar, blacksmith shop, milk house, and barn,
Granary, corral. An old World Almanac
To thumb at night, the child coughing, the lamp smoked,
The chores done. So he came to her one night,
To the front room, now bedroom, and moved in.
Nothing was said, nothing was ever said.
And then the child died and she disappeared.
This was Montana fifty years ago.
Met at the train, dust-driven as the sink
She came to, the child white as the alkali.
To the West distant mountains, the Big Lake
To the Northeast. Dead trees and almost dead
In the front yard, the front door locked and nailed,
A handpump in the sink. Outside, a land
Of gophers, cottontails and rattlesnakes,
In good years of alfalfa, oats and wheat.
Root cellar, blacksmith shop, milk house, and barn,
Granary, corral. An old World Almanac
To thumb at night, the child coughing, the lamp smoked,
The chores done. So he came to her one night,
To the front room, now bedroom, and moved in.
Nothing was said, nothing was ever said.
And then the child died and she disappeared.
This was Montana fifty years ago.
Northern Pacific Railway depot, Livingston, Montana: photo by Frank Jay Haynes, 1894: from Northern Pacific Views, Edward W. Nolan, 1983: image by Mike Cline, 2009
J.V. Cunningham (1911-1985): Montana Fifty Years Ago, from The Collected Poems and Epigrams, 1971
Russell Lee: Bean Day Rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico, September 1939
Riding a buffalo, Bean Day, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Paying admission fee at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Paying admission fee at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Spanish-American family waiting at the gate at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Cowboy on horse, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Cowboy at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Cowboys talking, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Cowboys driving cows down rodeo grounds, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Contestant at Bean Day rodeo examining saddle, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Placing a bar behind bucking bronc to prevent his kicking while in the slot, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Contestant mounting bucking bronc, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Contestant in goat-roping contest, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Cowboy running to tie calf after he had roped him, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Cowboy riding a steer, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Cowboy riding a steer, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico (with original FSA caption card)
Judges at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Conference of judges, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Spectators at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Spectators at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Spectators at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Spectators at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Spanish-American woman, Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Spanish-American woman, Bean Day, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Girl at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Spectators at Bean Day rodeo, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Scene at Bean Day festival, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Scene at Bean Day festival, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Scene at Bean Day festival, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Scene at Bean Day festival, Wagon Mound, New Mexico
Photos by Russell Lee, Wagon Mound, New Mexico, September 1939 (Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)
ReplyDeleteDylan: "approximately 1000 miles" (live, two songs, 1993 Supper Club shows?)
So easy to enjoy your Hrothgar series of poems, Tom. "…sobbing there/battering upon boat hull with bent and broken buckler/bared the bench-boards abroad/spread beds and bolsters…" got me itching to raid the neighbor's cabinets for that last bit of aquavit. The sad Cunningham poem and Montana pictures seem a common, sobering story even now. 50 years ago and 50 hence? Thanks.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Tom. If there's anything the Danelaw needs more of these days, it's Easy.
ReplyDeleteEasy is relative. With a dictionary on the table, a wiki-reference check-in & Poetry Foundation searchs I can find a path. This is a 600-level course, man. I have nightmares about missing the final. Got to actually listen to Cunningham read several poems this afternoon! That was awesome! And I’ll be the old fella in front row tomorrow.
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