tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4919100267646781989..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Council on TimeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-34442509024775079102010-05-16T01:00:06.463-07:002010-05-16T01:00:06.463-07:00Steve, that's terrible.
Puts me in mind of th...Steve, that's terrible.<br /><br />Puts me in mind of the day some progressives set fire to a "wild" field next door to us at the little travelled dirt intersection of Nymph and Cherry. 'Twas a patch of rank weedy "brush" aka poison oak. A brisk northwest wind off Agate Beach blew the poison smoke straight at us. Gales of coughing for weeks. <br /><br />"Over here" it's one endless infernal chainsaw orchestra forever. E'en in the continual subarctic cold.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-82061660074702193212010-05-15T12:22:28.110-07:002010-05-15T12:22:28.110-07:00Yes, jetsams and flotsams of the historical recedi...Yes, jetsams and flotsams of the historical receding into the nooks and crannies of the Dasein" -- I know, or think I do. . . . (Day 18 of workers in the 44 acre field cutting (chainsaws) all the all the habitat (coyote brush, broom. brambles) of quail, birds, deer, foxes, tractor piling it up in a now dried heap in preparation for --- and this is 'progress'?STEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6772739485947940392010-05-15T09:39:07.869-07:002010-05-15T09:39:07.869-07:00Hb, Curtis,
Many thanks.
The mesmerizing qualit...Hb, Curtis, <br /><br />Many thanks.<br /><br />The mesmerizing quality of firelight seems to have something of the supernatural in it, at times. <br /><br />(With those lower images, though I wasn't thinking of this consciously in selecting them, it later occurred to me that what may have been in the back of my mind was a bonfire scene in Haneke's The White Ribbon, a very powerful, disturbing and haunting film about the generation of children who would "grow up" to become Hitler Youth.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-85074093847173649042010-05-15T07:52:42.124-07:002010-05-15T07:52:42.124-07:00The size, positioning and contrast (color vs. blac...The size, positioning and contrast (color vs. black & white and other) of the three photographs surrounding the words impart a lot of power to the work, which buoyed me through an intense day at my desk writing something quite different than poetry.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24946236583322541202010-05-14T23:15:04.785-07:002010-05-14T23:15:04.785-07:00just beauuuuuuuuutiful!just beauuuuuuuuutiful!human beinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09232419187783429903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41872218535275162172010-05-14T09:12:54.931-07:002010-05-14T09:12:54.931-07:00Steve,
Unusual/picture anticipation
for sure...
...Steve,<br /><br />Unusual/picture anticipation<br /><br />for sure...<br /><br />The hidden history of this strange little nonsequitur of a post began with middle of the night considerations in the dark re. an imagined symposium on the passing of time, conducted by a group of <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Unknown_by_Dollman.jpg" rel="nofollow">apes</a> who then morphed into neanderthals who were then transmuted into Germanic youth scouts...<br /><br />Various permutations along the way (everything but the marshmallows), politics and persimmons floated and jettisoned, jetsams and flotsams of the historical receding into the nooks and crannies of the Dasein...<br /><br />Oh, you know.<br /><br />Or then again maybe not.<br /><br />Thank gods for that flapping cormorant, anyway. Reality cheque drawn on the Great Sea & Sky Bank (about/to inhabit it, action...).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10925150097684957432010-05-14T07:35:26.316-07:002010-05-14T07:35:26.316-07:00Tom,
Good to know that back in the olden days, pr...Tom,<br /><br />Good to know that back in the olden days, pre-partisan politic, votes weren't always taken. . . . O times, O men!<br /><br />5.14<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />ridge, motionless green leaves in right<br />foreground, no sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> “exact” possibility reflect,<br /> matched by an unusual<br /><br /> picture anticipation, about<br /> to inhabit it, action<br /><br />grey-white of sky reflected in channel,<br />cormorant flapping across toward pointSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com