Marooned Like a Polar Flower

• Header photo taken yesterday at Sycamore Landing on the canal west of Seneca. I like it. Momcat will return tomorrow.
• US engages in strategic display of cowardice to show resilience and resolve in face of clumsy PR stunt! Best to close those heavily fortified, triple-ringed concreted fortresses for show.
• Also, funny how the talk of boycotting the Winter Olympics in Russia died a quick death. Capitalism over national pride! Though Obama, the petulant fuck, is going to cancel a summit with Putin. 
• Police state.
• Your Fucking Washington Post.
• Militarized vision.
• But no, I have no solutions. See poem above.
• Allegheny, Carroll, Frederick, Garrett, and Carroll County rightwingers want to secede from Maryland. Seeya!
• New Inquiry's Sunday links.
• Maggie's weekly links.
• { feuilleton }'s weekly links.
• NEW ROBERT COOVER SHORT STORY!
• A wine-dark sea.
• Vellichor.
• Dubliners.
• Tom turned me on to Joseph Ceravolo, and wowee. See poem below. Expect more.
• A day on the Big Branch.
• More Melville!
• Night Flight.

POLAR FLOWER

Joseph Ceravolo

Poverty needs us in
this riot
of our body,
driving the jobs of the helpless to
the grainless without weapons.
Our hopes
our bodies stay awake
in the light.
Positions, interventions, work,
riots and leaves around us.
O the hungry body
of our souls
marooned like a polar flower.