4.85 miles
top of franklin to stone arch and back
27 degrees
Another Saturday run with Scott. We drove to the top of the franklin hill and started our run: down the hill, through the flats, up the 35W hill, past the Guthrie, to the Stone Arch bridge, then back. We ran up the whole hill and it felt great to me. So great that I, annoyingly I’m sure, sang “Eye of the Tiger” as we neared the top.
11 Things
- ice on the seeps, 1: big columns of ice streaking the limestone
- ice on the seeps, 2: so many streaks of ice; some of them stretched to the street and had melted and refroze on the road. A strange sight. It looked like someone had used “fake snow” spray paint to make it look like winter
- a few scattered chunks of ice on the river
- more bright green leaves still on some trees
- a new apartment building that looked like it was made out of limestone, but was probably mostly concrete with a thin veneer of limestone
- ducks! in the river, bobbing up, showing their butts
- geese! in the river, too far away for me to see, loud honks
- roller skiers, pt 1 — a whole crew of a dozen of more, heading south on the trail
- roller skiers, pt 2 — bright pink jackets on 2, yellow on another, one in black and white
- roller skiers, pt 3 — click clack scrape echoing off of the bridge
- a runner sprinting up the hill — when I saw her I sang the Kate Bush song to Scott, Running up that hill
Here is a vision poem that I’d like to remember and return to:
punctum/ Teja Sudhakar
A punctum is the little, unexpected extra in a photo. It is the face or the hand or the expression or the animal that you did not notice as you took the picture. It is simultaneously never the subject and entirely the subject. – Diana Weir
my earliest memory is of learning disappearance / on my father’s lap smudging an eraser across the page / even then i knew what i could lose if not careful / how whiteness operated to disappear you / have you ever been the first to leave a room / have you ever made your place behind the camera / my children might know me only out the corners of their eyes / when birds slam against rainbacked windows they leave their outlines / the water continues as if there was not dying all around it /
are you seeing this / i ask someone here are you seeing this / how many buildings have i passed through without a sound / how many years only remember me by my imprint / when we speak
a word we are naming each of its previous utterances / i fear i am only the language i have kept alive / i fear i am only my name being poured down a hallway / are you seeing this / the light we look through took years to get here / to see the disaster you must first see its veil / our pupils not made to hold all this bright / our eyes call their blood to the photograph / to take an image you must first take all the light out of the room / please hold as i steady / please keep your eyes soft / as i click /