the mosquito’s feast
sheets
on the clothesline
the wind curves
porch dinner
a mosquito feasts
on my date
summer twilight
the red barn’s roof line
sags with age
Milky Way -
carefully she spreads
the quilt
Yu Chang
“Milky Way” & “porch dinner” - Upstate Dim Sum (2001/II)
“sheets” - A New Resonance (1999); South by Southeast 3:4
“summer twilight” - A New Resonance; Modern Haiku XXVII:3
by dagosan:
backyard bocce -
tonight we’re
the noisy neighbors
grandpa’s smile
vanishes –
one flattened tomato plant
the red ball is closest –
sunset distracts
the green team
twilight
not even the dog
can find the pallina
girls against guys —
who knew
white wine improves your aim?
[Aug. 25, 2005]
potluck
Not In My Vista! Most of my friends are thoughtful liberals. They take for
granted that wind energy is a very good thing. Although they would scream like hell
if someone wanted to put a Wal-Mart (or another Starbucks) in their neighborhoods,
they seem to have no problem with windfarms being located next door to their country
cousins. Because my brother, Arthur J. Giacalone, represents a number of clients who
would prefer to keep noisy and unsightly masses of windmills and wind-turbines away
from their rural homes and out of their vistas, I’ve thought about this more than my urban
friends. This article from today’s Buffalo News – “Sheldon residents sue town over
turbines” (Aug. 25, 2005) — tells of one suit brought by lawyer Giacalone, and suggests
some reasonable provisions that would allow the wind energy industry to grow, while
protecting the rural character and the scenic vistas and viewscapes in the countryside.
Aren’t there a lot of mountain tops and ridges that have
already been ruined by strip-mining? Why couldn’t we
focus major wind-energy projects in those areas?
I was amused this evening to find my post on Kinky & Callahan at the top
of the Topix.net “Kinky Friedman News“ page. I also found a number of interesting
articles about Kinky, including this one from CBSNews (with details of a Lee Cowan
interview dealing mostly with Kinky’s politics and his former band), and this one from This
Week News, which describes Kinky’s 17th mystery novel, Ten Little New Yorkers, (which
looks like the end of the line for his Kinky Friedman doppelganger character) and explains
that Richard “Kinky” Friedman is really serious about being the governor of Texas, even if
humor is his main weapon. As Kinky explains:
“kinkyMug” getty photo “Make no mistake, just because humor is the weapon
that I use to joust at the windmill, that doesn’t mean I’m not going to knock it down.
Will Rogers and Mark Twain were very important cultural leaders in this country,
even though they weren’t in politics. So humor is just a device for sailing as close
to the truth as you can without sinking the ship.”
