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if you had wings
Masses of marigolds and celosiain separate pots on a concrete basearranged so you’d see a flagif you had wings wither after two weeks of heat and sun. Afterthe fact, a cadre of workers assemblesto deconstruct the whole, dumps one plant … Continue reading
a new theory of cats
Urban birds have taken to singing at nightbecause it is too noisy for their melodiesto be heard during the daytime…-The Guardian, 25 April 2007 I’ve heard robins singat night in Sheffieldnow, because they cannotmake themselves heardabove the noise of every … Continue reading
you are what you eat
Over lunch, conversation turns to a studyof the life expectancy of monks in one of theoldest temples in China. It seems theydie ten years younger than their laycounterparts, a fact the author attributesto the absence of meat from their diets.But … Continue reading
more
The last time I wrote about winterwheat, I called my fatherto be sure I could make it plausibly greenin the season of the poem. I scouredfield guides to the birdsof China before I daredname the source of amorning song. I … Continue reading
weight
Skyscraper gives city the shudders Sydney Morning Herald headline, 3 December 2005 It’s no surprise that the weight of humandwelling has triggered earthquakes in Taiwan, the weight of holding backa river in China. Under Denver,ground shudders at refusetucked into hollows of mountains. … Continue reading
well god’s place
Mary Ann O’Donnell sent this response to “Stop” from Shenzhen, China…
remember
Partly as a result of reading Mary Ann O’Donnell’s Shenzhen fieldnotes, partly as a result of two “virtual” conversations about unemployment this morning (one with a friend in China, one with a friend in the US), and partly because I … Continue reading