tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3685597292839455782..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Susan Kay Anderson: Where I Used To Live (With Views of Rabbit Island)Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-235244416802861162012-08-01T07:49:29.010-07:002012-08-01T07:49:29.010-07:00Tom,
Rabbit Island meets The Farallons -- nice.Tom,<br /><br />Rabbit Island meets The Farallons -- nice.STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48868730393165306672012-08-01T01:47:18.613-07:002012-08-01T01:47:18.613-07:00"Beautiful shots" to go with a killer po..."Beautiful shots" to go with a killer poem.vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86424853339662703082012-07-31T22:13:42.311-07:002012-07-31T22:13:42.311-07:00This is where I swim with Tom and Angelica.This is where I swim with Tom and Angelica.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41405062491189159322012-07-31T22:04:35.794-07:002012-07-31T22:04:35.794-07:00This is a place
where Sandra Krawciw
Kailua poet
w...This is a place<br />where Sandra Krawciw<br />Kailua poet<br />walks with me<br />to the rock pile<br />and back again<br />before coffee<br />and poems<br />sublime scenery<br />and feet scrubbed<br />by soupy coral sand.<br />Always she loves<br />Sherwoods<br />the ironwood grove<br />solid against<br />the breezes<br />coming in <br />wishes brush<br />those dunes.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6202827922405862812012-07-31T14:13:17.200-07:002012-07-31T14:13:17.200-07:00These are beautiful shots of Rabbit Island (Manana...These are beautiful shots of Rabbit Island (Manana)and of Waimanalo Beach--a sacred place. Shown here, I long for it in anguish until I am there worried about my burn, beating traffic, and putting off those thoughts.Susan Kay Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16277139119869470939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-2722160870796643542012-07-31T12:37:05.852-07:002012-07-31T12:37:05.852-07:00I love that we begin with Susan showing us around ...I love that we begin with Susan showing us around memory's territory and end with those three lines and "the whole bunch of trouble". You hardly notice the shift and you're there with the reek of him.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79324722835255328962012-07-31T11:28:37.682-07:002012-07-31T11:28:37.682-07:00you are welcome Tom....:)you are welcome Tom....:)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-64429886170948226632012-07-31T09:33:15.556-07:002012-07-31T09:33:15.556-07:00Steve,
Rabbit Island made me think a bit of a kin...Steve,<br /><br />Rabbit Island made me think a bit of a kinder, gentler, greener, milder, more-happy-tiki-bunny simulation of the swirling-wind-and-wave-swept dragon's tail of rock (in aerial view) that is <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/SE_Farallon_Island.jpg" rel="nofollow">The Farallons</a>.<br /><br />One supposes the sea birds know both places by names we shall never know.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24846004276485673192012-07-31T09:12:12.235-07:002012-07-31T09:12:12.235-07:00Tom,
Rabbits on Rabbit Island, Susan's "...Tom,<br /><br />Rabbits on Rabbit Island, Susan's "where I used to live" way out there across all that blue water, those winds, those "dry, windless places," these wonderful photos,<br />ahhh. . .<br /><br />7.31<br /><br />light coming into sky above black plane<br />of ridge, silver of planet above branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> is the same as to pass away,<br /> succession of present<br /><br /> in which part, is therefore<br /> sometimes, other hand<br /><br />grey white fog against invisible ridge,<br />pelican flapping across toward horizonSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39699400742627565332012-07-31T07:35:14.738-07:002012-07-31T07:35:14.738-07:00Sandra,
Many thanks.
In making this post, some ...Sandra,<br /><br />Many thanks. <br /><br />In making this post, some of the images have reminded me of a lovely book of poems I am reading right now: Lluvia, by Sandra San Martin.<br /><br />después de tan largo tiempo<br />el océano despierta<br /><br />after a a long long time<br />the big blue ocean wakes upTChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-68441231712929905862012-07-31T07:03:43.467-07:002012-07-31T07:03:43.467-07:00Thank you very much, Curtis, I've always respe...Thank you very much, Curtis, I've always respected your eye <br />anyway, and now more than ever...<br /><br />(The blogging has become the last ditch keep-one's mind-off-it-all concentration enterprise at a time when the gaping hole in the head from the infamous auto hit has linked up with the dolorous injury last month to the innocent genius of the house, who has two broken toes and numerous torn ligaments, and so... well...) <br /><br />But in any case and notwithstanding such tiresome notices, these collaborations owe all their spark (of course) to the redoubtable SKA, so due props are in order, without further ado.<br /><br />By the by, for those who don't already have it bookmarked, Susan keeps a blog, albeit with total unheard-of-among-poets-and-bloggers reticence and modesty (yay!! modesty), <a href="http://hawaiiteacherdetective.blogspot.com/2012/07/kickshaw-teacher-this-and-that.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />Her Rabbit Island poem arrived in response to, and perhaps makes a certain extra sensitive sort of sense (by extending an eternal in-the-dark dialogue) in relation to <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/larry-beckett-second-avenue.html" rel="nofollow">this rainy night fire in an iron barrel ballad</a> from the adjacent rim of the mainland.<br /><br />What these divers informations may add up to mean is that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sed8IjdXdGk&feature=fvst" rel="nofollow">all detectives always have their eye on all detectives all the time</a>. Little wonder some of the old ones never sleep.<br /><br />Otherwise, FYI:<br /><br />"Mānana Island is an uninhabited islet located 0.75 mi (1.21 km) off Kaupō Beach, near Makapuʻu at the eastern end of the Island of Oʻahu in the Hawaiian Islands. In the Hawaiian language, mānana means "buoyant". The islet is commonly referred to as Rabbit Island, because its shape as seen from the nearby Oʻahu shore looks something like a rabbit's head and because it was once inhabited by introduced rabbits. The rabbit colony was established by John Adams Cummins in the 1880s when he ran the nearby Waimānalo plantation.The rabbits were eradicated about a hundred years later because they were destroying the native ecosystem, an important seabird breeding area.<br /><br />"Mānana is a tuff cone with two vents or craters. The highest point on the islet rises to 361 ft (110 m). The island is 2,319 ft (707 m) long and 2,147 ft (654 m) wide and has an area of about 63 acres (25 ha). Mānana’s only sand beach is a small storm beach on the west to south-west (leeward) side of the islet. This sand deposit, located above the reach of the normal waves, is about 30 ft (9.1 m) wide and curves around to the western side of the island.<br /><br />"Mānana is a State Seabird Sanctuary—home to over 10,000 Wedge-tailed Shearwaters, 80,000 Sooty Terns, 20,000 Brown Noddys, 5-10 Bulwer's Petrels, and 10-15 Red-tailed Tropicbirds, and numerous Hawaiian Monk Seals. It is illegal to land on the islet without permission from the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources."TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-61668581849588700942012-07-31T06:46:38.454-07:002012-07-31T06:46:38.454-07:00love the photos...beautiful poem!!love the photos...beautiful poem!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-76564222071028728622012-07-31T06:11:20.764-07:002012-07-31T06:11:20.764-07:00I think your collaborations with Susan, and especi...I think your collaborations with Susan, and especially this one, which is so unexpected, are very fine. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.com