Archive for February, 2007

Foggy

Friday, February 2nd, 2007
When I headed at 8:30 out from Tacoma with Bob to show him the Olympics from Seabeck it was bright and sunny here. On our way there, we constantly went from sunshine to heavy fog. When we arrived at Seabeck, the fog had partially lifted but still managed to obscure most of the Olympics. Since [...]

Collage

Monday, February 5th, 2007

Patchen’s Selected Poems

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
In making a comment on a recent Berryman poem, Tom indirectly mentioned the poet Kenneth Patchen, a poet I’d heard of but couldn’t remember reading. When I did a search I found this poem, which happens to be the fourth poem in his Selected Poems: Do the Dead Know What Time It Is? The old [...]

Minor Addictions

Friday, February 9th, 2007
It’s been a busy week here and, despite the expected rain and the fact that I haven’t gotten out birding once, I still didn’t manage to get much reading done, first because Jiffy Lube was running commercials on the television so loudly that it was impossible to read the two hours I sat there while [...]