Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Vantage
once whispered to me was the best place to watch a thunderstorm:
in a dark bar with week-old friends
but the cumulous knowledge found under her kneecaps,
behind her left ear, or strewn with the fragments of a broken braclet
formed a condensation across the neck of our beer bottle
while the centripital force of our water cycle
like a chart in a collection of charts on a high school science booklet
will be glossed over by eyes and eyes of those
only waiting in timelines, with trepid hair, to understand
to understand;
like a tree proclaiming its need for sunlight before a phalanx of taller trees
and despite everyone's tranquil pollinations
discovering our bodies are weeks
wearing our denim labcoats like smiles
there are calendars to sell before the bell rings
there are snug ravines for sliding into with our hands as themselves
once whispered to me was the best place to watch a thunderstorm:
in a dark bar with week-old friends
but the cumulous knowledge found under her kneecaps,
behind her left ear, or strewn with the fragments of a broken braclet
formed a condensation across the neck of our beer bottle
while the centripital force of our water cycle
like a chart in a collection of charts on a high school science booklet
will be glossed over by eyes and eyes of those
only waiting in timelines, with trepid hair, to understand
to understand;
like a tree proclaiming its need for sunlight before a phalanx of taller trees
and despite everyone's tranquil pollinations
discovering our bodies are weeks
wearing our denim labcoats like smiles
there are calendars to sell before the bell rings
there are snug ravines for sliding into with our hands as themselves
stormy whether
Darker clouds and threats of rain have kept the swimming end of Camp on hold this week, leaving the guards and WSIs to aimless loitering. We have yet to be rocked, unfortunately, by any badass thunderstorms. They're all teases, and it really irritates me! There are some nasty systems lined up to hit us all week, and at least one of them must release itself on the St. James/Nissequoge area, or damn Zeus.
But the new School outdoor POOL is IN and FUNCTIONING! 40,000 gallons of liquid-cholorinated wonder, with marble-dusted interior. It's rather narrow, but deep — up to 9feet ! The kids still are not allowed to dive, but it's safer for us foolish adults to enter headfirst in all our foolish splendor.
By the way, I was blown away by considering the word "splendid" the other day, not having heard or used it in probably years. Where does its construction come from? Where did we ever hear/learn it as kids?
Off to set up the morning greeting music for the unloading of campers. TMBG?
I want to raise my freak flag
higher and higher
I want to raise my freak flag
and never be alone
Darker clouds and threats of rain have kept the swimming end of Camp on hold this week, leaving the guards and WSIs to aimless loitering. We have yet to be rocked, unfortunately, by any badass thunderstorms. They're all teases, and it really irritates me! There are some nasty systems lined up to hit us all week, and at least one of them must release itself on the St. James/Nissequoge area, or damn Zeus.
But the new School outdoor POOL is IN and FUNCTIONING! 40,000 gallons of liquid-cholorinated wonder, with marble-dusted interior. It's rather narrow, but deep — up to 9feet ! The kids still are not allowed to dive, but it's safer for us foolish adults to enter headfirst in all our foolish splendor.
By the way, I was blown away by considering the word "splendid" the other day, not having heard or used it in probably years. Where does its construction come from? Where did we ever hear/learn it as kids?
Off to set up the morning greeting music for the unloading of campers. TMBG?
I want to raise my freak flag
higher and higher
I want to raise my freak flag
and never be alone
