Archive for June, 2009
Firefly nights
I’m reading a poem about a firefly. It dispels the darkness with a blink, blink, blink but then with a flicker proceeds to take flight. When the firefly is about to be snatched from the air, it loses a blink, its blink’s not there, and when it feels trapped, its blink goes blank, and when [...]
Filed under: Nature, Poetry | 2 Comments
Tags: fireflies, lighting bugs, Nature, summer
Are you lonely tonight?
I’m thinking of a word. The word is lonely. It makes me thinks of other words and phrases. Alone…That lonesome whistle…All alone…Home alone…Left alone…Those lonesome blues…you alone…not by bread alone…the heart is a lonely hunter…I’m just a lonely boy…I think we’re alone now…the lone pilgrim… Lonesome is as lonesome does…Are you here all alone?…All by my [...]
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Tags: Hank Williams, Loneliness
A dream of foxes
When I drive home at night from work to my home in sort-of-rural western New Jersey, I am reminded constantly that the area — with its abundant open space, farm fields, deep woods, many streams and ponds, and its proximity to the Delaware River – absolutely teems with wildlife. I’ve seen black bears, weasels, coyotes, [...]
Filed under: Hunterdon County, Nature, New Jersey | 1 Comment
Tags: circle of life, Foxes, Nature, New Jersey, wildlife
