DIORAMA
You packed the spare umbrella
every mote of air
Exiled outside convex glass,
watch incisors claws
worry exit-seal steel wool
A pair of rats confer: why
deny us access
to such a pink perfect world
where Sanibel shells
shade actual to trompe l'oeil?
From grime-squared lino squat, I --
you've left me to -- pat
paws, explain perspective's laws:
black thaws, hopless toads
pits distortions growths
a sodden sinkholed Tepui
when we breathed on it
HERR KEPLER'S NOTEBOOK
Time is the bully anchor of the opposing tug-rope team.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
The person with a happy home life tracks glitter through the world; the solitary person leaves snowprints.
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"The grasshopper warbler's song comes up out of the earth just as you think the day is quietening down. It has no prelude or warm-up: it starts midperformance, as if switched on by the dark, as it if has been singing like this beneath the earth until it was dark enough to come to the surface. As if, though we hardly hear it, this singing never stops."
A Year on the Wing (Tim Dee)
All writing and cartoons on this site copyright 2008-2010 Julia Martin, unless otherwise credited.
Nice. Did you happen to see Chris Clarke's recent post on dioramas?
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Dave
Thanks, and I absolutely had read (jinx!) Chris' piece. Indeed, I dimly recall that we have touched on this mutual fascination, perhaps in a CRN how-to-connect-kids-with-nature thread about a year ago.
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