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Monday 13 February 2012

no big deal

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Windshield-spiderweb.jpg

Windshield with "spiderweb" cracking
: photo by Derek Jensen, 19 November 2005





Just another flyspeck on

the windshield of the universe







Cracked windshield: photo by Dora, 11 August 2011

4 comments:

aditya said...

beautiful poem Tom

just another       another

STEPHEN RATCLIFFE said...

T
o
m,

"flyspeck" or, in my case, eucalyptus branch -- not on "the windshield of the universe" perhaps but my car parked in the driveway last spring ("spiderweb cracking") another branch from same tree smashing the front hood 2 weeks ago -- and now the wind is howling, I wonder what I'll find when I go out this morning. . .

2.13

light coming into sky above still black
ridge, white half moon next to branches
in foreground, sound of wave in channel

“time” the name of the word,
event in which itself

the picture half unfinished,
is “nothing,” perhaps

silver of sunlight reflected in channel,
shadowed green slope of ridge across it

TC said...

Thank you brother Aditya!


Steve,

Ventured out at midnight, confronted by lashing wind and rain, abandoned the deck, crawled back into the cabin.

“time” the name of the word,
event in which itself

the picture half unfinished,
is “nothing,” perhaps

vazambam (Vassilis Zambaras) said...

For a flyweight, this one really shows its clout, Spiderman.