Tuesday Unaarghing

Have some music:

Zero 7

Twilight Singers

Kings of Convenience

The name, the name. What to think about the name? But something really interesting is going on here:

The Evangelicals once.

The Evangelicals twice.

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I know I've posted this before, but this past Thursday I was literally on a highway to Rochester Minnesota. And the poem is lovely, an antidote to aargh.

A BLESSING

by James Wright

Just off the highway to Rochester, Minnesota,
Twilight bounds softly forth onto the grass.
And the eyes of those two Indian ponies
Darken with kindness.
They have come gladly out of the willows
To welcome my friend and me.
We step over the barbed wire into the pasture
Where they have been grazing all day, alone.
They ripple tensely, they can hardly contain their happiness
That we have come.
They bow shyly as wet swans. They love each other.
There is no loneliness like theirs.
At home once more,
They begin munching the young tufts of spring in the darkness.
I would like to hold the slenderer one in my arms,
For she has walked over to me
And nuzzled my left hand.
She is black and white,
Her mane falls wild on her forehead,
And the light breeze moves me to caress her long ear
That is delicate as the skin over a girl's wrist.
Suddenly I realize
That if I stepped out of my body I would break
Into blossom.