Thursday

Sunny and breezy, 71 degrees (21.6 C). A neighbor is hammering on ... something.

Bought a couple of baby basil plants at the grocery store yesterday, so need to repot those. Google made me laugh this morning, and I successfully spotted the April Fools' Day story in the Telegraph.

But! Today is also the beginning of something (besides April, okay). It's National Poetry Month. No, for real. See that tag "Poetry" over on the left? I've been doing this for a few years now, putting up a poem a day (except on weekends). They'll be in a separate post, behind a cut (unless they're really, really short). Comment if you feel like it, don't if you don't. It's just an opportunity to post something a little bit different. :-)

A Small Discovery

So I was going to clean out a big ceramic pot to put the little basil plants in, and imagine my surprise when I found something there already ...

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Poem #1 for Poetry Month -- "One Night Stand"

By the American writer Jack Spicer (1925 - 1965), here's a little poem about a famous encounter with a swan.

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