Critical Moment

"What day is the day that we know that we hope for or fear for?
Every day is the day we should fear from or hope from. One moment
Weighs like another. Only in retrospection, selection,
We say, that was the day. The critical moment
That is always now, and here. Even now, in sordid particulars
The eternal design may appear."
(excerpt from Murder in the Cathedral. t. s. eliot)

Money

Desperado why don't you come to your senses,
you've been out ridin' fences for so long now.
Oh, you're a hard one, but I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you - can hurt you somehow.
Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy,
She'll beat you if she's able,
You know the queen of hearts is always your best bet.
(excerpt from D. Henley and G. Frey)

A departure!

A departure...... to all my Jewish friends, Shanah Tovah! A sweet and healthy New Year!

Portrait

"I met a young child beside a dead pony,
I met a white man who walked a blck dog,
I met a woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,

I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it's a hard, it's hard, it's a hard, it's a hard
It's a hard rain's a gonna fall."
(excerpt from B. Dylan)

The River of Life

"The more we live, more brief appear
Our life's succeeding stages:
A day to childhood seems a year,
And years like passing ages."
(excerpt from T. Campbell)

Solitude

Happy the man whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.

Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire;
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire.

Blest, who can unconcern'dly find
Hours, days, and years slide soft away
in health of body, peace of mind;
Quiet by day,

(excerpt from Alexander Pope)

Nail and Hammer

I’D LIKE TO TAKE A POSTCARD
AND MAIL IT IN OCTOBER
I’D LIKE TO SCREAM AND SHOUT
AND NOT JUST ABOUT THE WEATHER

I WANT TO BUILD A CHURCH
AND GIVE IT TO YOUR MOTHER
I’D LIKE TO FIND A BOOK
AND BIND IT ALL IN LEATHER

I’D LIKE TO SEE YOUR HOUSE
AND WASH ALL YOUR DISHES
I’D LIKE TO GO OUT IN THE RAIN
AND TAKE A SHOWER
(excerpt from J. Parrondo)

Night Shore

"I awoke only to hear the dull clobbing of the wind
and the creckling of an ashy log in the fire.
the swabbing of the sea, and saw
its white fingers tremor-taken up the quick sand.
and knowing all was well
I rasped a windy match and shucked a shigarette
and shlopped my head into the billow."
Barry O. Higgs

Glitter

"Oh the dance of our Sister!
First she peeps slily over the mountain top,
and her eyes are shy;
and she laughs softly.
And from far off she beckons with one hand;
her armbands flash and her beads glitter;
softly she calls.

She tells the winds of the dance,
she invites them, for the clearing is wide and it will be a great
wedding."
(excerpt from the Dance of the Rain. Eugene Marais)