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Extinct Ammonoid on the Permian
Reef Trail, in cross section - my picture
Modern Ammonoid - One of the few that survived the Permian Extinction |
A Very Twisted Log |
Please see a map of the places where I have slept, as updated each day by Michael Angerman: Sharon in West Texasx
As I read, I transitioned to rewind seeing the development of History...
ReplyDeleteHi, Brownie, nice to of you to drop by. I see that you see a metaphor in my metaphor. It's the stuff of how we're made. Keep on transitioning.
DeleteSharon
Hi Sharon.
ReplyDeleteHave you seen reports of the manned rocket launch in Amboy, CA (through which you passed last week) yesterday?
I wonder whether they're looking for an intrepid adventuress with starlight in her eyes like you for future launches.
Paul, Altadena.
No, Paul, I didn't hear that.
Deletesure, shoot me to mars. Don't even think about a return trip.
Now see here, Sharon
Deletehttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/25/flat-earther-blasts-california-sky-homemade-steam-powered-rocket/
Paul
That guy is inspiring, Paul. Too inspiring! If I’d known him in my twenties, we probably would have died on Mt. Everest, on an untried route, without oxygen.
Deletewhere has she gone
ReplyDeletethe woman of the future
I think she’s telling myths
but she points with a pencil
to stony fossils
by Joyce Futa
A Brief History of Ping-pong
ReplyDeletefor Sharon
Stephen got accidentally untied
by a single vibrating string theory
that broke with a snappy ping.
I responded with a pong.
Back and forth
we played that game.
We named it
The Theory of the Big Ping
even though it had nothing
to do with Hawking.
Thanks, Alex for this interesting take-off of Hawking's "A Brief History of Time"
DeleteHe is gone, but his great ideas remain.
Your ping-pong analogy is great too.
Pong!
In her new theory of time she finds her book already written. Already etched by a layered past into the mountains she walks on. And set into the future by the press of ages, a lovely font emerges as she pours water over stone.
DeleteFrom her waking dream she reads into the future her own words the body of extinct creatures swallowed by time and found again on her. page.
She tries to lift them buried for ages . They are light as air and float into a typeface that looks familiar.
online
outside the lines
she's always been
this way
for the first time
A book already written, yes. Pages crumpled, but some partly legible. She hasn't read the last page yet, hasn't deciphered the plot, but it's coming.
DeleteBeen this way for the first, yes.
mysteries to unravel
ReplyDeleteno witness
all the time in the world
don't wait
empty the cereal box
to grab the prize inside
Josette Dorazio