Lawrence Hall, HSG
The First Barn-Jacket Morning in Autumn
Dawn – windy and cold
The first barn-jacket morning
Wild geese singing south
Thursday, October 17, 2024
The First Barn-Jacket Morning in Autumn - haiku
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
The Kittens Come on Little Fog Feet - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
The Kittens Come on Little Fog Feet
As Carl Sandburg did not say
At dawn: coffee and the Wordle
and thoughts
The moon’s still full, but
one last star winks out
The dew-bathed oaks drip onto
a tricky word
Fog drifts in silence among the
tricky light
A little paw stirs soft autumn’s
molding leaves
And then two eyes appear, and
a greeting tail
The forming image of the cat completes
itself
And then another – two abandoned
cats
These tiny orphans approach –
and love begins
To them I pledge
They will never be hungry or
lonely again
Sunday, October 13, 2024
On Reading THREE HUNDRED TANG POEMS - poem
Lawrence Hall, HSG
On Reading Three Hundred Tang Poems
From The Jade Mountain they came
300 Tang dreams
Each in its well-ordered frame
Cups adrift in streams
The ancients speak to us still
Wisdom from the high
Each word a clear-flowing rill
Each a song, a sigh
Three Hundred Tang Poems
Translated and edited by Peter Harris
© 2009 by Peter Harris
Typeset in Somerset, England
Printed and bound on Possneck, Germany
Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
New York: Knopf
Toronto: Penguin Random House
London: Everyman’s Library
Saturday, October 12, 2024
An Autumn Flight - haiku
Lawrence Hall, HSG
An Autumn Flight
A leaf fell, a leaf
A life of summer in flight
In bright golden flight
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
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