L'aura del Campo

Invaders

Today's scribble

Invaders

On Columbus Day the leaves have died.
Winter comes white before it's time,

Like immigrants, like the dispossessed,
you always come white before your time.

O my lover! Bring me trash of no worth!
Wring my cold sweats before my time.

O Invader! Should I, forewarned,
kiss or kill you before next time?

Columbus Day over, snow melts to wet.
White Death? O Kåre! Pray for this time.

© Kåre Enga [166.338] 2009-12-16

Sketching it out:

I reworked the earlier sketch, and it came out in couplets. I tweaked it into a ghazal (more or less). Mary Jane Nealon's riveting reading of AIDS poems was also swirling around in my head. Not all poetry is puppy dogs and joy-joy. So little of it is...

One thing about the ghazal form: more couplets can be added. And if it makes it stronger, I will. It's also a good form for collaboration. I'm hoping to do that with John Myers this December. And another note: one's name is usually included in the last line. Know that poetry tends to be a mix of fiction and truth.

Other writers say...

Randall Jarell reads "Death of a ball turret gunner":



Thou:

Do you hear what I see? "Invalid Entry"  is an interesting entry by Ŧĥē Beŋ .

Me and Mine:

By not going to Chattanooga I've given myself some time to do other things. Like party

party = whooping and hollering and another cup of joe while watching other people party

when they win! I've spoken with my sister about being in Washington around the 27th-30th of December. I was serious about visiting other people, by-the-way.

Montana can be a place of extremes. Tuesday the temperatures rose from the depths of winter to spring heights. Great Falls had the high in the state of 45º after a low of -11º and Jordan reached 21º after a state low of -39º. We in Western Montana did not experience such extremes; but, Wednesday is the first day since December 1st over 32º.

Walking to the store wasn't exactly warm, but the mild air beckoned. My big purchase? Hot cocoa.

Montana: 34º, above freezing! in downtown Missoula at noon.

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