Half the World

  Is half the world not covered in snow? Strangers and intimates under one snug  blanket. Evidence of global warming. No holes in the ozone layer! The polar ice caps are fine. Don’t worry! Go about your business as usual. Soon it will be spring.  The temperature will be temperate. The snow and ice will [...]

Water Taxidermy

Canal-boating Uni

   Uni says: “Don’t put your shovels too far away!”
   Having seen his own shadow Monday morning, Uni the groundhog made his 29th forecast following a water journey in Myerstown, Pennsylvania: six more weeks of winter, colder days in the corn crib. His coming out party is part of the Eastern Pennsylvania Goundhog Lodge 17, [...]

Rabbit Rests

  ):< Brewer mourns loss of native son.  Kingdom for an Angstrom. >:(

SPOTTED: The Wash Me Variations

   
Seen in Pottstown, PA:
DRIVE ON
THE RIGHT.
PASS ON
THE LEFT.
 
 GET OFF THE
#@*!
CELL PHONE!
( Panel truck driver/calligrapher embellishes  “dead air” area on rear doors).

Weekend Warrior: Straight Through Gibraltar

  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Weekend Update:

 Have you ever gone straight through? Jabal Tariq, it was. Tariq’s Mountain.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Warrior and Edgar Allan Poe and Sizzy journeyed to Gibraltar.

 
Gibraltar, PA. U.S.A.: a village of  apparently few inhabitants and no official population count.  Just the straits, ma’am.
The township population is 6,869 and 97% white (2000 Census figures).
Eddie thought he saw a sign for Elf-Storage, so [...]

Rudder to the Ship of State

   

    Sell it, trade it, or make something of it?
    I have the rudder to the ship of state!
    What’s its name?

Argent Aurific Oneiric

   Inauguration Day morning in Pennsylvania is silver rich. With the temperature at eight degrees at 5:30 a.m., the creek continues to churn out mist and moisture which forms fern-like crystal colonies on the bank’s marginalia of branches and boughs. The water itself at dawn has  the teal and aqua iridescentishness of abalone; the heron flying low: blue and slate. The woods look [...]

Web Presence: the Barack of an Envelope

  
   Heavy rain before daybreak. Walking for the Heron Report: first one sits hunched on a branch, facing the bank of the creek, opposite. From this position, its head looks like a hard-boiled egg on grey feathers.
   The day is quiet, the sky grey. Mostly runners on the path, single or in pairs.
   Another heron flies above [...]

Men of October

    
World Series put off 7:(, election less than a week away. Boys of summer, signs of autumn, things in windows, at the door. Ghosts and guises.  
The displays of partisanship and sportsfandom. Cheer.  
   The celebration of the season, the punctuation of the month – to let us know we’re alive.  
Of naivete and adulthood, [...]

Shut-eye Pod?

Newburger measures for finishing touches

                [Gas. Food. Lodging.]
               
                 
 
 
                 Dreamspot, anyone?
     In the brief hour between  seven and eight in the morning, four designers were busy as bees on Walnut Street between Broad and 16th Streets in Philadelphia’s Center City. Two parking spots, one day, in the middle of National Design Week. Theirs was a chance to [...]