On fire

Click click.  :)

I am like "on fire" tonight.  Really can't sleep.  Lucky it is Saturday/Sunday.  Oh well, so much for making it to church.  I never make it to church anyway.

janlo surpreated furit compawere.

tired and not making any sense.  Not code.

Old Seinfeld episodes are sunning through my head and I am amazed that Seinfeld is in the auto spell.  I am amazed at a lot of things these days.  I am so amazed I have eyes in the back of my head and remember my past life as a cave man.

This is all just a rouse.  Afoot is the game of life
It ripples across time
Through the void

We are a node on a wave train
Bound for unknown destinations

And singing

ALP

American Life in Poetry: Column 511

BY TED KOOSER, U.S. POET LAUREATE

 

Just as it was to me, Insha’Allah will be a new word to many of you, offered in this poem by Danusha Laméris, a Californian. It looks to me like one of those words that ought to get a lot of use. Insha’Allah  I don’t know when it slipped into my speech that soft word meaning, “if God wills it.” Insha’Allah I will see you next summer. The baby will come in spring, insha’Allah. Insha’Allah this year we will have enough rain. So many plans I’ve laid have unraveled easily as braids beneath my mother’s quick fingers. Every language must have a word for this. A word our grandmothers uttered under their breath as they pinned the whites, soaked in lemon, hung them to dry in the sun, or peeled potatoes, dropping the discarded skins into a bowl. Our sons will return next month, insha’Allah. Insha’Allah this war will end, soon. Insha’Allah the rice will be enough to last through winter. How lightly we learn to hold hope, as if it were an animal that could turn around and bite your hand. And still we carry it the way a mother would, carefully, from one day to the next. American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org), publisher ofPoetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright ©2014 by Danusha Laméris, from her recently released first book of poems, The Moons of August, Autumn House Press, 2014. Poem reprinted by Danusha Laméris and the publisher. Introduction copyright © 2014 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.