tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6087525025448947359..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Anxious PasserUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87822070287454830682010-06-10T04:49:10.209-07:002010-06-10T04:49:10.209-07:00Well, the journey was a bit taxing, but...Well, <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/lanzarote.html" rel="nofollow">the journey was a bit taxing</a>, but...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34403145570739763942010-06-10T02:48:29.367-07:002010-06-10T02:48:29.367-07:00Thank you for noticing that, hb... of course the p...Thank you for noticing that, hb... of course the play on the taxonomic nomenclature creates the "hinge" of the poem.<br /><br /><br />Julia, your Buenos Aires sparrows are brilliant survivalists. (I hope everyone who reads this will click to see them!)<br /><br /><br />Lanny, here's a pretty cool little Nicaraguan <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gepadi/3460254780/" rel="nofollow">pito de agua</a>... meanwhile see you later in Lanzarote (in my dreams).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48945227866374722612010-06-09T12:58:18.824-07:002010-06-09T12:58:18.824-07:00heartrnding!
loved the way you used the scientif...heartrnding!<br /><br /><br />loved the way you used the scientific name of the bird... creating a deeper perspective... through the double meaning of the words...human beinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09232419187783429903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2452775323366603402010-06-09T12:45:39.757-07:002010-06-09T12:45:39.757-07:00As you said, Tom, I have seen very tough and rea...As you said, Tom, I have <a href="http://melioralatent.blogspot.com/2010/05/gorriones.html" rel="nofollow"> seen </a> very tough and really confident sparrowsJuliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16770978171794446322010-06-09T09:13:01.205-07:002010-06-09T09:13:01.205-07:00maybe we could find an image of somebody playing
...maybe we could find an image of somebody playing <br /><br />the pito d'agua<br />or<br /><br />water flute?<br /><br />I saw a native of Lanzarote playing one years ago in a National Geographic..Phanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81740426269789534552010-06-09T09:07:53.984-07:002010-06-09T09:07:53.984-07:00The sparrow seemed on the one hand pretty helpless...The sparrow seemed on the one hand pretty helpless, on the other tough enough not to give up without a struggle. <br /><br />Wish I knew that feeling.<br /><br />Otherwise... reverie just now featuring a thirsty sparrow sipping intense inertial systems of a parallel universe out of an alabaster straw at Punta Papagayo, across the burning arid desert of the Rubicon in Lanzarote.<br /><br />More on that later maybe...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-53662152422058903682010-06-09T07:52:55.240-07:002010-06-09T07:52:55.240-07:00Tom,
Sweet bird! In a parallel universe, Melospi...Tom,<br /><br />Sweet bird! In a parallel universe, Melospiza melodia 'appears' here ---<br /><br />6.9<br /><br />grey whiteness of cloud against invisible<br />ridge, song sparrows calling from branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> part in which such “regions”<br /> equal inertial systems<br /><br /> weight of body, as necessary<br /> consequence, of measure<br /><br />sunlit white clouds against top of ridge,<br />wingspan of osprey circling over channelSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51779703596559290032010-06-09T06:16:22.871-07:002010-06-09T06:16:22.871-07:00there is a strange hall
full of lovely portraits
b...there is a strange hall<br />full of lovely portraits<br />between the word<br /><br />alien <br />and cuckold <br /><br />there is a stone hand<br />in the hall<br />with hollow birdcage<br />fingernails<br /><br />where amoebas<br />of pink down<br />hover and tweet<br />through delicate<br />hollow bones<br /><br />bagpipes<br />with alabaster<br />straws<br /><br />the sparrow<br />is lanzarote<br />ala<br />anxiomaticoPhanero Noemikonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-52902824342264582752010-06-09T05:54:56.450-07:002010-06-09T05:54:56.450-07:00I will never forget that handsome, intense-seeming...I will never forget that handsome, intense-seeming, anxious bird.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.com