back to school
tiny ants swarm
a wad of gum
first day of term
her new school uniform
bright in the mist
by Matt Morden
from A New Resonance 2 ;
Snapshots Calendar 2001
new kindergarten class —
hiccupping sobs
from several moms
Sept. 7, 2005
update (10 P.M.): Check out eddie’s homework for more
back-to-school haiku and senryu.
potluck
Did you have a terrible dread in grammar and high school, whenever
faced with the start of the new school year? I sure did. What I’m amazed at, all these
years later, is that I still haven’t quite learned that most things are nowhere near
as terrible as we fear they will be.
Tangent (4 PM): Even I was a bit surprised, a few minutes ago, to discover
that one of our posts is the first result (out of more than 2.5 million) for
the Yahoo! Search of teach humility>. Our post discussed the inability
of some new lawyers to cooperate with and learn from experienced members
of the support staff. See They Don’t Teach Humility in Law School.
Volokh Conspiracy‘s Todd Zywicki points today to a very good article from the
liberal, student Darmouth Free Press. It’s called How the Old Left Hurts America,
by Andrew Seal, and contains many good ideas and much that is quotable. Here’s
an example:
Constant reappraisals of the faults, blunders, and purposeful wrongs of
the Bush administration, while they have an important place in political
debate, do not move us anywhere. They stagnate us as a party and they
stagnate America. Without a clear and forward-thinking attitude of ?what
more should be done?? and ?is this the best we, or they, have to offer
America?? we are not inviting America to go in any direction, we are
asking them to sit and watch the ugly spectacle.
haunted me: How can the habit of wearing hats backward still be in fashion — even
for guys over 30 — after more than two decades? In a similar vein, a couple weeks
ago, I asked a friend: What must it be like when your father figure wears pants with
the crotch situated below his knees?
first day of school
the bus arrives
with fresh graffitti
v’s of geese
the marching band
marching in lockstep geometry
i sit beside the girl
with all
the angles
first day
my first apple
bruised
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 8:51 pm
first day of school
the bus arrives
with fresh graffitti
v’s of geese
the marching band
marching in lockstep geometry
i sit beside the girl
with all
the angles
first day
my first apple
bruised
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 8:51 pm
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 9:32 pm
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 9:32 pm
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 9:36 pm
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Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 9:53 pm
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 9:53 pm
english class
we’re taught that every haiku
has seventeen syllables
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 10:11 pm
english class
we’re taught that every haiku
has seventeen syllables
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 10:11 pm
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 10:16 pm
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 10:16 pm
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 10:24 pm
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 10:24 pm
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 10:25 pm
Comment by ed markowski — September 7, 2005 @ 10:25 pm