Two poems approaching a new yearSolstice by Laura Van Prooyen <http://writersalmanac.org/poem_author/laura-van-prooyen/>
It is not so complicated. I am at the window grinding walnuts for bread. The chain link fence surrounds our dormant stamp of grass. When you speak, I watch your lips, or else I can't understand. This winter is made simple by the cold. In lean air, the train whistle carries. Our neighbor's faucet spills out the Great Lakes, freezes into a rink. I hear the hockey sticks smacking ice. I hear blades. "Solstice" by Laura Van Prooyen from *Our House Was On Fire*. (c) Ashland Poetry Press, 2014. Time Enough by Dennis O'Driscoll <http://writersalmanac.org/author.php?auth_id=2531&elq=592daa4299434da2b0986a73c9480637&elqCampaignId=5660> The tally of years added up so rapidly it appeared I had been short-changed, tricked by sleight of hand, fallen victim to false bookkeeping. Yet when I checked my records, each and every year had been accounted for, down to the last day, and could be audited against old diary entries (client briefings, dental check-ups, parent-teacher meetings, wedding anniversaries), verified with credit card statements (multi-trip insurance, antibiotics, concert bookings, mobile top-ups). And, although nagging doubts remained--an inkling that I had been ripped off in some way, given short shrift, made to live at an accelerated pace, rushed through my routines with unseemly haste-- nothing could be proved, no hard and fast statistics adduced. I had, it seems, unknown to me, been living my life to the full. "Time Enough" by Dennis O'Driscoll, from *Dear Life*. (c) Copper Canyon Press. [image: Gary Richmond] *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690* On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Libertin, Mary <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary F, > > Thanks and with you to all a profound "solstitial pause for > refleshmeant" (Finnegans Wake 82.10)! > > Mary Libertin > > > From: Gary Fuhrman <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Sunday, December 21, 2014 at 9:38 AM > To: 'Peirce-L' <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" < > [email protected]> > Subject: [biosemiotics:7823] RE: [PEIRCE-L] Natural Propositions: Chapter > 8, Operational and Optimal Iconicity > > Merry Solstice, everyone! All of us in the northern hemisphere will be > a little less benighted every day for the next half year ... > > > > >
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