Got a Match? – v2

Oh, how to tell this tale,
to spin the yarn, to pull you in,
to bring you along, down memory lane
to that night in April 1993, in New Orleans.
 
I was a small-town Yankee,
on a once-in-a-lifetime trip,
eating my fill, drinking in The Big Easy,
day and, especially, this night.
 
We had an early flight back north, 6am,
It was too much for me, too soon to leave,
I needed to run back from our hotel,
I wanted to Experience More…
 
Paranoid of what might happen, I left,
a money clip, my ID, and a pack of hotel matches
(marked with the room number),
my only companions, out into the night,
after a promise to my wife, the others, to be safe.
 
I was a cameraman in a foreign land,
out into the night without my camera.
Can you see me out there in the wild,
like Marlin Perkins’ assistant Jim.
What would I find out there on the street,
in the jazz-dipped urban jungle.
 
Oh yes, the wild creatures of the night,
were out in force, alive, wild,
nocturnal denizens of the street
and the game rangers of the NOPD too,
walked, strutted, sauntered, or stumbled by,
What was I to do, what would come next…
 
I was propositioned, male and female (or was she?)
it made me laugh, under the officer’s stare.
Sound and noise and smell and taste
marched on through the night, before last call.
 
I was seeing it all, prowling the Quarter,
from Jackson Square to Rampart and back
Light and shadow stalked the thinning crowd
until Beignets and chicory coffee
called me to the Café du Monde.
 
Finally, it was 4am, and I had to go,
With our bag of beignets and
a tray of six coffees in the other hand;
I began my trek through the darkened streets.
 
Off in the distance, I saw another figure,
in the dark, the shadows
bridging the space between us;
Where oh where do I turn?
 
“Hey, buddy, got a match?”
Perfect.
And so, this story to tell…
 
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Edited December 23, 2023
Got a Match – v2
 
8/7/04 18:36
Got a Match?
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/08/got-match.html
https://twitter.com/N_O_CafeDuMonde
&
Edited December 7, 2023
Pascal’s Manale – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/12/pascals-manale-v2.html
December 3, 2023
Pascal’s Manale
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/12/pascals-manale.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/19/423605844/hacking-iconic-new-orleans-barbecue-shrimp-far-from-the-gulf
https://www.yummly.com/recipe/Pascale_s-Manale-Barbeque-Shrimp-1228578
https://twitter.com/Commanders_NOLA
 
&
edited February 21, 2022
Night in New Orleans - v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v5.html
Edited December 6, 2013
Night in New Orleans – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/nightin-new-orleans-new-awlins-v4.html
(editing original version)
Edited December 5, 2013
Night in New Orleans – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v3.html
Edited September 20, 2012
“Night in New Orleans – v2”
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns-v2.html
Sunday, July 15, 2001 at 6:22:58 PM EST
edited December 6, 2001
“Night in New Orleans
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns.html
mostly about trip to New Orleans for Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1993
and again for job interview at Tulane University 1996
&
edited November 18, 2018
Mood Indigo – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo-v2.html
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1064114948794695680
November 16, 2018
Mood Indigo
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo.html
May 1993
Mood Indigo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLayv8rPlts
by Willie Humphrey
(93 years old in 1993)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Humphrey
https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858981063/
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation_Hall_Jazz_Band
Preservation Hall
&
edited November 16, 2018
Nice Tie – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/nice-tie-v2.html
8/7/04 18:05
Nice Tie
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/08/nice-tie.html
partially non-verbal conversation with Richard Payne
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668413/
of Preservation Hall Jazz Band
https://www.facebook.com/preservationhalljazzband/
https://www.preservationhalljazzband.com/
at Preservation Hall Jazz Band club
https://www.facebook.com/Preservation.Hall/
http://www.preservationhall.com/?fbclid=IwAR3erKerKs-nD2hpMDNl6QDuCcgpyZkyGrGzPrGM06c-k8WFGmeyqXdRhvg 
726 St. Peters Street
New Orleans, LA
He was the bass player for the band and
he was the bass player in
“Toots Sweet’s Band” in the movie
Angel Heart (1987).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/
I gave him my tie, right off my neck
(a tie I had bought from a pushcart at
Downtown Crossing in Boston).
&
edited April 27, 2015
Congo Square – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2_27.html
(editing version 2)
edited November 4, 2018
Amazing Grace – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/amazing-grace-v3.html
(editing original again)
edited April 16, 2015
Amazing Grace – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/amazing-grace-v2.html
July 12, 2004 18:56 –
Amazing Grace
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/amazing-grace.html
Amazing Grace solo of Aaron Neville
at the 1993 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
http://www.nojazzfest.com/
https://www.facebook.com/JazzFest
https://www.facebook.com/jazznheritage 
https://twitter.com/Jazznheritage
http://www.art4now.com/cpost93.htm
during a real wedding.
The members of Los Lobos were near me, watching as I was.
I saw the wedding couple riding in a carriage
in the French Quarter that night.
&
edited April 13, 2015
Congo Square – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2.html
July 12, 2004 19:15.
Congo Square
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/congo-square.html
Congo Square, special area at the
1993 Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans
&
8/7/04 18:36
Got a Match?
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/08/got-match.html
 
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droplets heavy on the gossamer – v4

Dew, mist, today’s light rain shower,
exposed her artistry, her precision.
 
Droplets heavy on the gossamer
jewels festooned on the threads,
lattice of her craft, her handiwork.
 
Strands of pearls more than strung, knitted,
outlining this creator’s masterpiece.
 
Each time she stitched the lines,
casting her net into the breeze,
what would normally be invisible, unseen.
 
Panes of deadly glass glazed to capture,
the unwise, the unseeing, falling onto her trap.
 
Her adorned confection, a tapestry,
her trap, shown in its beauty,
by the furtive wet.
 
---- 
Edited December 23, 2023

droplets heavy on the gossamer – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/12/droplets-heavy-on-gossamer-v4.html 

December 22, 2023
Conjuring a dream, a moment, a memory – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/12/conjuring-dream-moment-memory-v3.html
Edited November 19, 2023
droplets heavy on the gossamer – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/11/droplets-heavy-on-gossamer-v3.html
Edited January 14, 2023
droplets heavy on the gossamer – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2023/01/droplets-heavy-on-gossamer-v2.html
&
Edited December 22, 2022
Conjuring a dream, a moment, a memory – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/12/conjuring-dream-moment-memory-v2.html
December 22, 2022
Conjuring a dream, a moment, a memory
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/12/conjuring-dream-moment-memory.html
&
Edited December 15, 2022
droplets heavy on the gossamer
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/12/droplets-heavy-on-gossamer.html
Edited December 12, 2022
capillaries of dirt – v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/12/capillaries-of-dirt-v6.html
Edited December 11, 2022
Bursting, rising – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/12/bursting-rising-v2.html
&
Edited December 11, 2022
capillaries of dirt – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/12/capillaries-of-dirt-v5.html
after reading “Moles” by Mary Oliver
&
Edited December 11, 2022
The largeness of the universe – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-largeness-of-universe-v2.html
&
December 10, 2022
still urgently munching
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/12/still-urgently-munching.html
after reading “The Kitten, by Mary Oliver
Allagash Wilderness Waterway, 1976
&
December 26, 2021
Bursting, rising
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/12/bursting-rising.html
&
December 10, 2022
the droplets heavy on the gossamer
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-droplets-heavy-on-gossamer.html
after reading, “Mushroom” by Mary Oliver
&
December 10, 2022
A muskrat paw - 1
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-muskrat-paw-1.html
On starting to reread Mary Oliver’s book, American Primitive,
about a muskrat paw from one of my 6^th grade classmates,
Mound, MN, October 1971
&
July 19, 2006
A muskrat paw
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/07/muskrat-paw.html
&
April 4, 2022
Just a whisper of heather
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/just-whisper-of-heather.html
&
edited April 4, 2022
The largeness of the universe
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-largeness-of-universe.html
edited April 3, 2022
The largeness of the world – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-largeness-of-world-v3.html
edited April 3, 2022
The largeness of the world – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-largeness-of-world-v2.html
April 2, 2022
The largeness of the world
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-largeness-of-world.html
written after listening again to 2015 interview with Mary Oliver
On Being with Krista Tippett, on Florida Public Radio
&
edited February 21, 2022
to be more fully alive – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/to-be-more-fully-alive-v3.html
&
edited February 21, 2022
Night in New Orleans - v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v5.html
&
edited February 20, 2022
Ten Feet Overhead – v13
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/ten-feet-overhead-v13.html
edited February 20, 2022
Ten Feet Overhead – v12
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/ten-feet-overhead-v12.html
edited September 28, 2017
ten feet overhead – v11
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/09/ten-feet-overhead-v11.html
&
edited February 20, 2022
to be more fully alive – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/to-be-more-fully-alive-v2.html
February 20, 2022
to be more fully alive
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/to-be-more-fully-alive.html
&
edited February 20, 2022
sitting on the floor – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/sitting-on-floor-v2.html
edited February 20, 2022
sitting on the floor
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/sitting-on-floor.html
written after listening again to 2015 interview with Mary Oliver
On Being with Krista Tippett,
especially where she talked about skipping school to
take books with her in her knapsack into the woods
edited/new February 3, 2022
entering a world of wonders
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/entering-world-of-wonder.html
edited February 3, 2022
Descending the stairs – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/descending-stairs-v2.html
&
edited February 20, 2022
my refuge on the island – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/my-refuge-on-island-v3.html
(adding 1^st and 2^nd stanza)
edited February 20, 2022
my refuge on the island – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/my-refuge-on-island-v2.html
merged February 20, 2022
my refuge on the island
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/my-refuge-on-island.html
February 19, 2022
my refuge on the island – pt 3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/my-refuge-on-island-pt-3.html
February 19, 2022
my refuge on the island – pt 2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/my-refuge-on-island-pt-2.html
February 19, 2022
my refuge on the island – pt 1
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/my-refuge-on-island-pt-1.html
cabin on Blueberry Island in Swains Lake,
Barrington, NH
summer of 2000
written after reading, “Building the House”,
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February 18, 2022
A watch – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-watch-v2.html
&
edited February 18, 2022
I’ve never been to Provincetown – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/ive-never-been-to-provincetown-v2.html
&
edited February 18, 2022
I have crossed his fence – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/i-have-crossed-his-fence-v3.html
&
February 18, 2022
gifted by pulling over
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/gifted-by-pulling-over.html
Bayard Conservation Area
Green Cove Springs, FL
Route 16
&
edited February 18, 2022
Something ancient, sacred – v7
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/something-ancient-sacred-v7.html
&
edited February 16, 2022
Gathering checkerberries – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/gathering-checkerberries-v2.html
February 15, 2022
Gathering checkerberries
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/gathering-checkerberries.html
UCC Second Congregational Church, Westfield MA
probably about 1970 or 1971
&
February 16, 2022
The carpet wet with her tears
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-carpet-wet-with-her-tears.html
&
edited February 15, 2022
Sometimes a pen – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/sometimes-pen-v2.html
&
edited February 15, 2022
where they bedded for the night – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/where-they-bedded-for-night-v2.html
Claremont, NH, 1977
&
edited February 15, 2022
Diving, rising, landing – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/diving-rising-landing-v2.html
&
edited February 15, 2022
I have crossed his fence – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/i-have-crossed-his-fence-v2.html
February 15, 2022
I have crossed his fence
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/i-have-crossed-his-fence.html
About poem, "Mending Wall",
by Robert Frost
&
February 15, 2022
Diving, rising, landing
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/diving-rising-landing.html
&
edited/merged February 15, 2022
on the shore of the Loch = 2 – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/on-shore-of-loch-2-v2.html
February 14, 2022
on the shore of the Loch - 2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/on-shore-of-loch.html
edited July 23, 2015
Urughart – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/07/urughart-v3.html
(editing version 2)
edited April 21, 2015
Urughart – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/urughart-v2.html
Standing on the edge of Loch Ness, 1999
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2005/08/loch-ness.html
May 7, 2010
On the Shore of the Loch
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2010/05/on-shore-of-loch.html
2/25/06 19:05
Urughart
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/02/urquhart.html
1999 trip to Scotland
&
February 14, 2022
A watch
https://raymondafoss.blogsp ot.com/2022/02/a-watch.html
1994 or 1995-ish
Martha’s Vineyard
&
February 14, 2022
I’ve never been to Provincetown
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/ive-never-been-to-provincetown.html
written after listening to 2015 interview with Mary Oliver
On Being with Krista Tippett,
about her move to Florida from Provincetown, Massachusetts
&
February 14, 2022
That’s Mine
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/thats-mine.html
1972 vacation on Wells Beach, Wells, Maine
&
February 14, 2022
Looking out Burns’ window
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/looking-out-burns-window.html
1999 trip to Scotland
&
edited February 14, 2022
Perched on my left hand – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/perched-on-my-left-hand-v2.html
2/13/2022
Perched on my left hand
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/perched-on-my-left-hand.html
written after reading "The Summer Day"
by Mary Oliver
photo of dragonfly on my finger 8/21/2020
Sheila Nadile Porath - ty. I was very aware that this was a gift, a singular moment. I very gently lifted the dragonfly from the grass and it was on my right hand. I moved it to my left hand to take the shots and videos. I so wanted it to stay longer but I could tell how nervous it was, as its wings were moving. That was like the white admiral butterfly covered in raindrops a few days earlier. It had shown its nervousness with its tongue going in and out. In both cases, I really had to still myself in spite of my heart racing. Trying to be collaborator not predator to get the shots.
&
February 13, 2022
Sometimes a pen
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/sometimes-pen.html
written while listening to rebroadcast of 2015 interview with Mary Oliver
On Being with Krista Tippett
&
February 13, 2022
the arch of their backs
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-arch-of-their-backs.html
written a few days after reading "Humpbacks"
by Mary Oliver
&
February 12, 2022
surrounding the lake, the woodlands
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/surrounding-lake-woodlands.html
written after reading "In Blackwater Woods",
by Mary Oliver
&
February 12, 2022
leftover chowder
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/leftover-chowder.html
written after reading “Bluefish”,
by Mary Oliver
written about making chowder on Martha’s Vineyard
in the mid-1990’s
&
edited February 12, 2022
A Cup of Berries – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-cup-of-berries-v5.html
edited February 11, 2022
living goblets – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/living-goblets-v4.html
Edited after reading "Blackberries",
by Mary Oliver
&
edited November 28, 2019
living goblets – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2019/11/living-goblets-v3.html
edited November 27, 2019
living goblets – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2019/11/living-goblets-v2.html
November 27, 2019
living goblets
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2019/11/living-goblets-of-juice-of-nectar-no.html
&
edited November 28, 2019
A Cup of Berries – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2019/11/a-cup-of-berries-v4.html
edited August 22, 2019
A Cup of Berries – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-cup-of-berries-v3.html
edited June 21, 2014
A Cup of Berries – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-cup-of-berries-v2.html
August 10, 2008
A Cup of Berries
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2008/08/cup-of-berries.html
&
edited February 10, 2022
Apricot and Periwinkle – v7
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/apricot-and-periwinkle-v7.html
edited after reading “Little Sister Pond”,
by Mary Oliver
&
edited March 21, 2021
Apricot and Periwinkle - v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/03/apricot-and-periwinkle-v6.html
edited May 5, 2018
Apricot and Periwinkle – v5
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/05/apricot-and-periwinkle-v5.html
(editing version 4, adding 1^st stanza)
edited September 28, 2017
Apricot and Periwinkle – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/09/apricot-and-periwinkle-v4.html
edited January 18, 2016
Apricot and Periwinkle – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/apricot-and-periwinkle-v3.html
(merging edits to version 2 and original)
edited June 21, 2014
Apricot and Periwinkle – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/06/apricot-and-periwinkle-v2.html
Written 8/28/00 at 10:20 at night
Apricot and Periwinkle
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/sunset-seeing-colors.html
Written 8/28/00 at 10:20 at night 
Swain’s Lake, Barrington, NH
&
February 10, 2022
where they bedded for the night
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/where-they-bedded-for-night.html
written after reading “Little Sister Pond”,
by Mary Oliver
&
Edited February 10, 2022
something ancient, sacred - v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/something-ancient-sacred-v6.html
February 10, 2022
&
Gathering another branch
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/gathering-another-branch.html
written after reading "A Meeting"
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February 8, 2022
Building their nest – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/building-their-nest-v2.html
February 7, 2022
Building their nest
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/building-their-nest.html
&
edited February 10, 2022
something ancient, sacred – v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/something-ancient-sacred-v5.html
edited February 10, 2022
something ancient, sacred – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/something-ancient-sacred-v4.html
edited February 9, 2022
something ancient, sacred – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/something-ancient-sacred-v3.html
edited after reading, “Crossing the Swamp”,
by Mary Oliver
&
Edited October 19, 2013
something ancient, sacred – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/something-ancient-sacred-v2.html
July 21, 2013
something ancient, sacred
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/something-ancient-sacred.html
about fishing trip
July 17, 2013
&
edited February 9, 2022
drawn to the source – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/drawn-to-source-v2.html
February 9, 2022
drawn to the source
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/drawn-to-source.html
written after reading, “The Fish” and
“Honey at the Table”,
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February 9, 2022
Wooing the Darkness to Sleep – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/wooing-darkness-to-sleep-v2.html
February 9, 2022
Wooing the Darkness to Sleep
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/wooing-darkness-to-sleep.html
written after reading, “White Night”,
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February 9, 2022
Her Lady Slipper – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/her-lady-slipper-v3.html
edited after reading “May”,
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February 9, 2022
at the edge of the lake – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/at-edge-of-lake-v4.html
edited February 9, 2022
at the edge of the lake – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/at-edge-of-lake-v3.html
edited February 9, 2022
at the edge of the lake – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/at-edge-of-lake-v2.html
edited February 9, 2022
onto the water – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/onto-water-v2.html
February 8, 2022
onto the water
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/onto-water.html
about summer 2000,
written after reading "Blossom"
by Mary Oliver
&
February 8, 2022
at the edge of the lake
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/at-edge-of-lake.html
about summer 2000,
written after reading "Morning on Great Pond"
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February 8, 2022
in the woods I wandered – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/in-woods-i-wandered-v3.html
edited February 8, 2022
in the woods I wandered – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/in-woods-i-wandered-v2.html
February 8, 2022
in the woods I wandered
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/in-woods-i-wandered.html
written after reading “Spring”
by Mary Oliver
&
edited February 8, 2022
The bramble enticing – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-bramble-enticing-v2.html
February 8, 2022
the bramble enticing
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-bramble-enticing.html
Written after reading "Skunk Cabbage"
by Mary Oliver
&
February 6, 2022
Diatomaceous earth
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/diatomaceous-earth.html
Written after reading "Rain in Ohio",
By Mary Oliver
&
February 6, 2022
The raptors, their carrion
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-raptors-their-carrion.html
Written after reading "Vultures" by Mary Oliver.
&
January 3, 2022
A squadron of geese
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/01/a-squadron-of-geese.html
written after reading Clapp’s Brook by Mary Oliver
&
January 3, 2022
The bear cub
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-bear-cub.html
About drive out of Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument
after 2019 Stars Over Katahdin dark skies event. 
Drafted after reading first part of poem "Clapp's Brook" by Mary Oliver.
 
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poetry, nature, whales, memory, Mary Oliver,
 
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# UrquhartCastle
 
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#poetry #body #canoe #creator #eyes #heron #feather #feet #God #hope #life #light #Nature #water #wings
 
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poetry, writing, Mary Oliver, inspiration, nature, God, faith, family, Krista Tippett, On Being,
 
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poetry, writing, Mary Oliver, inspiration, nature, God, faith, family,
 
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poetry, writing, Mary Oliver, inspiration, nature, God, faith, family, spider, web

 

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