Enga mellom fjella

Sons of Iowa Unite! "Before meeting with the family"

Iowa! Those boys out in the cornfields can stop annoying the hogs with their lusty antics and come into town now and get hitched up proper. What's a small-town farmer to say or do with his sons and daughters? Hell, they all know about artificial insemination, so they'll figure out sumpthing. I doubt the population of rural Iowa! will suffer. The hogs are sighing relief though; they've seen it all ... and then some.

For-those-who-don't-read-the-news ... or at least the Des Moines Register:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090403/NEWS/90403010

Summary of the Supreme court decision:

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/assets/pdf/D213209143.PDF

Before meeting with the family

         for Kiyasama

After, he rests
peacefully

a stream of red
blood-stains

washed by tears
blazoned

upon her white
uniform.

© 2009 Kåre Enga [166.18] 2009-04-01

After William Carlos Williams . Written after I read "*blows dust off*"  by kiyasama who wants to be accepted into nursing school. Edited since. I worked in a hospital/nursinghome in Nebraska ... many years ago.

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Thursday: Very 'busy'. Depues del almuerzo al Centro de los Casi-difuntos: Spanish Circle where I was given the prompt "las montanas crecen durante la primavera"; 2 poems written at Celtic Connection; three short movies at Men's Group.

Friday: A bit of sun. A walk to get bread. First Friday and music at Celtic Connection; visiting with friends. Saw Ginny and Trish; Hobie; Emily and Heather; had a chat with Gilliam. It even snowed a bit.

Sat-morn: The hills and lawns are frosted white. [thought: as I grow older and whiter does that make me a frosted flake?] However ... it may warm up today! and 60 degree sunshine is in the forecast for Monday.

MILLSTONES and MILESTONES:

Got a 2.5 for a poem! That's a nice kick in the stomach. I thought ... well, I thought ... folks were just being polite with their 5.0s and 4.5s. Maybe they were! Other than a poem written for a particular person ... in the end only an editor's opinion counts and only when they publish it . Readership? Yep. That counts a lot too; but, there are all types of readers (and some of them are mine ALL MINE
). My struggle has been matching up reader with poem. And we don't mention submitting for publication. That's the real struggle for me. This particular poem? I really liked it; but, it's still new and begs an edit; however, most of the readers liked it too; so ... no problem.

Montana: a chill sunny 34º at 9:30

grape hyacinth iris daffodils crocus

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