Thursday, April 14, 2011

In Just-

Damselflies and dragonflies; a conversation with a gentleman about his nearly blind diabetic dog; preparation of a workshop on pronouns and fine-tuning another on prepositions; a few hours at the shop; the first snowberry clearwing of the year, two orangetipped falcate butterflies, four yellow swallowtails, one red-spotted purple, five matching moths with wings like printed carpetbags; three computer crashes culminating in one live workshop; and the spring university choir/community orchestra concert (A Trio of Americans: Walter Piston's Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings; James R. Carlson's Three Psalms for Choir and Orchestra [oh how lovely the original composition]; Mack Wilberg's Requiem) make for an e. e. ecummings poem kind of a day: fractured and lower case but ending with a !

2 comments:

Joni said...

oh my! It's wonderful that you can see beyond the computer crashes to the butterflies and anticipation of the concert!

Robley H said...

Let's just see if I can get the computers to work correctly again. If not, I may be in an Eliot waste land!