Enga mellom fjella

Five flowers

Five flowers

White gladioli
ascend from death,
in rows and rows in the widower's garden.

Yellow lotus, toes in muck,
rise above the surface tension,
soar above the floating weedy duck.

Angel trumpets,
hummermoth's delight,
poison spent, drooping at dawn's light.

Five petaled
scarlet pimpernell,
hugs the ground to delight a child that crawls.

Forget me,
Forget-me-not,
Forget me. No! Forget me not.

Kåre Enga 2008 [164.517] 2008-02-15

NEWS/ON-LINE:

A Canadian (Vancouver) in a wheel chair does a film on homelessness:

http://www.canada.com/cityguides/vancouver/story.html?id=9bcae2ca-843c-4e5f-8a12...

He was injured in a car accident. Later, got to know homeless folk that collected bottles. Neat that he was able to connect and then go forward with a film.

I came across this while looking for information on line about a young man who recently suffered injury during a snow-boarding accident. He's currently in ICU and the brain scans have not been positive. I'm on edge because I may know the family, although I don't know him.

Updated 2/22. Every death affects someone we know: http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/281417.html


ME:

Okay. A bit of a lost day. I have no idea where the time went ... Tomorrow I'm busier.

Kansas: 41º and sunny.

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