Bob's Grabbag

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Saturday, October 1, 2011

ENCOUNTER

A four-foot timber rattlesnake too autumn-torpid now to sling its length into a coil and poise its head inched its way across the sun-warmed boulder just below my raised and sneakered foot. It stopped. I slowly moved to give it room, shuddered at its patterned spine seen right now from far too... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

YET STILL ANOTHER HAIKU DEFINITION

Ziti - plural noun: tiny facial blemishes on Italian teens Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

ITCHERS AND SCRATCHERS, a haiku

Why didn't Noah just swat those two mosquitoes while he had the chance? Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

MY FAVORITE LIE

We stopped by woods that snowy evening - Robert Frost, the horse and me. "Nothing here but trees, Rob. Horse up there says 'Let's go home; you poets have no common sense.' She's right, you know. That hike we took? You didn't know which road to take. Near got us lost, as I recall." "The two roads... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

OKAY, YOUR TURN

As I sit here and catch my breath, I can't help but remember when it was me who'd overtake the hikers on the trail ahead. As I approached them from behind, I'd clear my throat in courtesy so that I wouldn't startle them, unlooked for as I passed them by. Today I am the one who steps aside with... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 12, 2011

TOO BIG TO FAIL

"The tower has collapsed." - Tom Brokaw A sudden empty shape of smoke and air where just now living people fell -unthinkable release! - into the mouth of Hell. And somewhere someone smiled. Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, September 5, 2011

THE MEMORY OF LISTS - a re-post

PEARL HARBOR - the USS Arizona Memorial Immaculate white arch lit and shimmered from below by water and the rainbow trace of oil that, given the chance, would have propelled the rusting warrior below. FREISING, GERMANY - the town's monument to its World War II dead Statue of a young man with rifle... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 2, 2011

THE NY HORIZON SINCE 9/11 - Driving South on NJ 17- a revision

Grown accustomed with the years but unfamiliar once, the absence of two distant towers mends within our memory. Now heal it, someone, in my heart. Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

AUGUST, THE IMPOSTOR - a revision

It's only August, but morning's cooler, clearer, crisper now. It's only August, but three calendars for next year just came in. It's only August, but swimming isn't quite so welcome, and yellow leaves float on the lake. It's only August, but Sears sends ads for sweaters. So, what is it I'm missing... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 20, 2011

JOYCE KILMER NOT

I lift my leafy arms in prayer that beaver there will stay right there, won't add my limbs to that hodgepodge he's pleased to call a beaver lodge. Live and let live's what I say, but chiseltooth won't go away! Trees can't move, and I doubt he would. That's it. There goes the neighborhood. Sign in to see full entry.

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