Seasonal Alaska Diary - October 18, 2013

There are still small
stubborn spots of color
that I want to swallow
to sustain me.
Can feel the dark hand
of coming winter
closing into a fist
squeezing light
out of the day.

A.H.

Outdoor Report
(Note: My sister - thanks Ink! - occasionally texts me parts of outdoor/fishing report, apparently from the newspaper)

Let's have
"a quiet conversation
about running for tuna
on Friday"
while
"exciting opportunities
for dry patterns"
exist
"within the next
couple of freshets."

A.H. 10-13-13

Seasonal Alaska Diary -October 7, 2013

That giant sucking sound?
Five minutes and forty seconds
of daylight draining
out of the day.
Today. sunshine enhanced
leaves of crimson, gold and orange.
I wanted to consume
the colors
as an antidote to
the coming darkness.
Tonight, wind and rain
will batter and dull
the trees into skeletons.

Aileen Holthaus

SNAP

They say that the poor
should pull themselves up
by their bootstraps--
but how can they succeed
if their bootstraps are being cut?

Internal Server Error

Internal Server Error

Maybe that explains
this week,
my internal server
was erroring.
Tried shutting down
and rebooting
but couldn't connect
with the mainframe.
Gave up,
used low-tech option
of pulling covers over my head.

A.H.   9-8-13

Practice Creation?

As noted in Kate Atkinson's "Human Croquet" - "In 1650, Archbishop James Ussher, in his Annals of the World, calculates that God made Heaven and Earth on the evening of Saturday, October 22, 4004 BC."

How might the world
be different
if created on
a Monday morning?
Did God intend
to create the world
earlier in the day
but got busy
with other
God chores?
What if he
had forgotten
to create us?
Was creation of
Heaven and Earth
a pesky task
to be crossed off
the list?
Did God really rest
the next day?
What if God was interrupted
mid-way thru creation?
What if we were only
intended to be the
practice creation?

A.H. 8-28-13

Area 51

Of course there are
space aliens on earth.
Many of them serve
in Congress.

A.H.
8-18-13