June 23, 2003

• the elevator is a sanctuary

  
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  Bear

  

  Here’s a mugshot.  A real troublemaker (and charmer).  I don’t imagine she’ll grow more than 50 pounds heavy.  Love the dark-rimmed eyes and I’m thinking of renaming her Tammy Faye.  She’s a fun dog.

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  Shoot.  Weekend was a blast.  Congrats to Soojin and Peter!

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  White Towels
  (Richard Jones)*
  
  I have been studying the difference
  between solitude and loneliness,
  telling the story of my life
  to the clean white towels taken warm from the dryer,
  I carry them through the house
  as though they were my children
  asleep in my arms.

  * Jones’ poems appear in recent anthologies (Poets of the New Century, Poetry in Motion, and his own collection, The Blessing: New and Selected Poems).
  
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  This Day This World
  (Stanley Kunitz)+

  My architects, forsaking me,
  Submit designs for a bombproof mansion;
  My scholars of the fourth dimension
  Complain they starve to death in three;
  My correspondents write all day
  The business of the enemy.

  Tapped of their useful energies,
  My soldiers pace the mind’s frontier;
  Engine recoils from engineer
  And strikes at the courage in his eyes.
  When shall my swarthy workmen rise,
  Demand the power and the keys?

  + Kunitz was Poet Laureate of the US, 2000-2001.  A recent recipient of the National Medal of the Arts.  He’s a favorite, striking a balance between outward simplicity and inward mystery.
  
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  Listening to:
  
  
  
  Christopher O’Riley’s True Love Waits
  Yeah, baby.  Looping track 4, Karma Police

  Physics is Phun:  Matt11:28

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