Lawrence Hall, HSG
An Autumn Flight
A leaf fell, a leaf
A life of summer in flight
In bright golden flight
Saturday, October 12, 2024
An Autumn Flight - haiku
Friday, October 11, 2024
A Dixon Ticonderoga #2 Pencil from 1955 - poem and photograph
Lawrence Hall, HSG
A Dixon Ticonderoga #2 Pencil from 1955
Neither plans nor bathroom vents last forever
The workmen pulled down the old one from ‘55
Amid a tumble of old nails and bits of wood:
A Dixon Ticonderoga #2
The yellow paint a little aged now
The green metal ring a little bit dull
The eraser now hardened beyond all use
The point well-sharpened with a pocketknife
What sturdy craftsman from the long ago
Measured out his work - I’d like to know
Thursday, October 10, 2024
One Does Not Pre-Imagine Pre-Edward R. Murrow Pre-Babbling - not exactly a poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
One Does Not Pre-Imagine Pre-Edward R. Murrow Pre-Babbling
A Lesson in Clear Writing for
Journalists
Hunker down, swath of
destruction, hunker down, write your Social Security number on your arm, hunker
down, eerie, hunker down, monster, hunker down, time ticking down / away,
hunker down, pre-positioned, hunker down, pre-planned, hunker down, pre-need
(and maybe even pre-hunker down), hunker down, pre-deployed, hunker down, spooky
(and possibly pre-spooky), hunker down, snapped like matchsticks (“Daddy,
what’s a matchstick?”), hunker down, doomed paradise, hunker down, paradise
lost, hunker down, lost paradise, hunker down, apocalypse, hunker down, biblical,
hunker down, storm of the century (again?), hunker down, doomed, hunker down,
doomed, hunker down, pummeled, hunker down, pummeled, hunker down, pummeled,
hunker down, power lines brightly bursting, hunker down, eerie calm, hunker
down, eerie quiet, hunker down, birds chirping, hunker down, unexpected sparks,
hunker down, hazards are unfolding, hunker down, street lamps waver, hunker
down, one-two punch, hunker down, what we know, hunker down, hunker down,
hunker down
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
A Treatise on the Burrowing Habits of Dachshunds - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
A Treatise on the Burrowing Habits of Dachshunds
A dachshund will burrow under the garden fence
For every dachshund thinks she is a wolf
A fearsome apex predator with a squeaky toy -
This is in the nature of dachshunds
A dachshund will burrow into your tightly-closed hand
Nosing out the doggie treat you have hidden there
A fearsome apex predator and omnivore -
This is in the nature of dachshunds
A dachshund bill burrow into your end-of-day lap
Watching both the television and the cats
A fearsome apex predator drooling on your book -
This is in the nature of dachshunds
A dachshund will burrow, borrow, beg, and bark
And in her foreshadowing of that better World to come
A dachshund will burrow deeply into your heart -
And love you forever
This is in the nature of dachshunds
And of you
Sunday, October 6, 2024
We Are Offered Two Candidates for the Presidency - not nearly a poem (but then not nearly a valid choice)
Lawrence Hall, HSG
We Are Offered Two Candidates for the Presidency
I am afraid that one of them will win
Friday, October 4, 2024
Falling Into Truth - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Falling Into Truth
The fall of October’s leaves is nothing new
Except that it is – this leaf never fell before
And we were never here to watch this leaf
Because we and the leaf were somewhere else
Except that we were, we are, we will be
A little leaf, each of us, springtime-new
Then dancing merrily the summer through
Now floating gently into a winter’s sleep
A coverlet soft, a hymn, a night-light moon
Sleep - sleep – another spring is coming soon
Thursday, October 3, 2024
WE ARE AMERICANS! We Buy Toilet Paper and Fight! Fight! Fight! - a sort-of poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
Dock Workers’ Strike – BUY TOILET PAPER!
WE ARE AMERICANS!
Whenever threatened by
enemies furry or domestic
By hurricanes, tornadoes,
earthquakes, storms
By shortages of food, water,
and electric power
By aliens stalking us and
eating our cats
By famine, fire,
dispossession, revolution
WE BUY TOILET PAPER! WE ARE
AMERICANS!
We are armed with our AK-16s
and AR – 47s
Uniformed in our Wal-Mart
camo from China
Size 89XXXXL-Lard-ass
And we will by God stand
together as ONE -
And fight each other to the
death for toilet paper!
Oh, and do you know Jesus?
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