tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3038226910595227236..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Susan Kay Anderson: Humpies ("our time so short")Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-11653188615825023102012-09-12T10:03:02.436-07:002012-09-12T10:03:02.436-07:00We didn't catch the humpies--just made fun of ...We didn't catch the humpies--just made fun of them and then got sad when we saw them later, littering the bank, the gravel bar on the Nome River. Dad said they weren't good eating or that's what I thought I heard through the cloud of mosquitoes, the humpies turning into memories right then and there. Water personified beneath our cabin, Teetering-On-The-Brink, or just Teetering for short, sitting above the Nome River, humpies gasping on the banks below. I thought I could hear them but it was the incessant whine of a mosquito yet again.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-433115699137430842012-09-11T11:31:33.099-07:002012-09-11T11:31:33.099-07:00And now, for the underwater listening pleasure of ...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du0OvBTfKW4&feature=related" rel="nofollow">And now, for the underwater listening pleasure of our friends in the finny tribe, let us pipe in a little 9/11 music...</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73242502254655510862012-09-11T10:28:18.072-07:002012-09-11T10:28:18.072-07:00Under the watery house
on wavy stilts--
there it i...Under the watery house<br />on wavy stilts--<br />there it is<br />leaflike, plastic<br />making its way<br />skin loosening<br />terrible teeth<br />hump too big<br />noticable<br />obvious scars<br />water food<br />for everyone else<br />even the trees<br />their roots.<br /><br />She saw<br />the humpies<br />her reflection<br />she tried to bite<br />the water<br />fishing bear-like<br /> <br />reeking <br />of shrinking violets.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15017430269836414442012-09-11T09:17:35.263-07:002012-09-11T09:17:35.263-07:00Tom, Wonderful, both the pictures and the poem. Ma...Tom, Wonderful, both the pictures and the poem. Many thanks to you and to Susan.<br /><br />I also looked over the cyber-wall to read “Market.” Don’t know exactly what to say, but I’ll start with stunning, and brilliant, and true.Hazenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417573435195561519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73467512479465938462012-09-11T08:59:26.802-07:002012-09-11T08:59:26.802-07:00Steve,
"The invisible's becoming the vis...Steve,<br /><br />"The invisible's becoming the visible here now," saith the clairvoyant Pythoness of the Dawn, upon your 9.11.<br /><br />"Fog's lifting."<br /><br />(OMG -- 9-11!! And the morning rush hour traffic madly pursuing Oblivion, in commemoration of all our blasted Empires!)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13826855651341266152012-09-11T07:41:41.758-07:002012-09-11T07:41:41.758-07:00Tom,
Yes as the humpies and Susan remind us
&qu...Tom,<br /><br />Yes as the humpies and Susan remind us <br /><br />"our time so short<br />. . .<br />glimpsed<br />during. . ."<br /><br />9.11 <br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />plane of ridge, shadowed motion of bird <br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> in and at is, point of view<br /> which conditions such<br /><br /> may be, the first two terms<br /> above, this therefore<br /><br />grey white of fog against top of ridge,<br />cormorant flapping across toward point<br />STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com