2.5 miles
lake nokomis
62 degrees
After walking around Lake Nokomis yesterday afternoon and hearing the ice shattering and melting, then seeing some loons bobbing in the water, Scott and I decided to return this morning for a run. We started running before 8 am, which is early for me these days. It was windy and sunny and beautiful. The water was an intense blue and getting close to being iced out. Someone already had their canoe out. I wonder what the water temperature is? Open swim begins in 2 months!
When we finished the run, we walked up the hill to Nokomis Beach coffee. I used to get coffee here a lot when we lived closer to the lake, but it’s been years. When was the last time I was in here? Everything looked almost exactly the same. A strange feeling of time not passing.
On the way, we encountered a wonderful display of yard weirdness. Scott took a picture:
A. R. Ammons’ garbage
1
at the end of section 10 (68):
oh, well: argument is like dining:
mess with a nice dinner long enough, it’s garbage.
2
in section 11 (70-71):
this is
we at our best, not killing, scheming, abusing,
running over, tearing down, burning up: why
did invention ever bother with all this, why
does the huge beech by the water come back every
year: oh, the sweet pleasures, the kiss, the letter from
someone, the word of sympathy or praise, or just
the shared settled look between us, that here
we are together, such as it is, cautious and
courageous, wily with genuine desire, policed
by how we behave, all out of eternity, into
eternity, but here now, where we make the most
of it:
3
at the end of section 11 (73):
I don’t
care whether anybody believes me or not: I
don’t know anything I want anybody to believe or
in: but if you will sit with me in the light
of speech, I will sit with you: I would rather
do this than eat your ice cream
colorblind plates
I continue to work on my colorblind poems. Inspired by some words in a section of garbage, I finished a solid draft of another one yesterday. Here’s a bit of it:
I look at the plate
and see nothing but a mass of
different size dots. No hidden numbers
or hand-painted hiragana. I stare harder and
the dots turn into loops able to map new routes
for making meaning out of electrical impulses.