trolling

Old Stone



Only a strong or lucky troll
scores a bridge
all-you-can-eat traffic
fresh air, the works

this here rock shelter
it ain't no bridge
really, not a shelter atall
et my share of aborigines
in my day but lately?
few stringy hikers
forget when last I caught one
can't cook neither; a fire here
would lamp me out
to what calls itself the law nowadays

tain't the script I wrote
fresh eyed, eager of tooth
and tongue
but it's the one I sing

we're a solitary folk
but get together anon
ain't seen ary troll in
long and long years
looked, I did, on a time

could snatch me a bridge now
may be, save I'm
cold now
old
hungry
weak
a hiker came by now
I'd have the worst of the meetin
nothing left for me
but take the way of all trollflesh
least my aches'll be gone


end

DN 91

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021612

desk collapses
to event horizon, hoovers room
cosmologist feared lost

021512

bottom fell out
of the bird feeder
bonanza

Happy Valley Times Day, Bun Rab!

Cold winds that blew

Glads can be red,
zinnias too,
if you weren't alive,
You might be blue,
Or too,
We're through,
What's that you threw?
Oh, yew,
Ew, goo,
On my shoe.

evolution lecture Thursday

Thursday night at 7:30 PM in Tuscaloosa. The relationship between humans and water for the last 10,000 years. So I'm guessing one of the theses is that the earth was created before 4004 BC? radical!

http://as.ua.edu/evolution/

021312

daffodils droop
at -4 dawn
afternoon heat