Perhaps you are thinking an ode is too elevated for mere panties, but I’m here to tell you I experienced a pair of seemingly ordinary panties that transcended the material world like no other talisman… Once on, luck ran through my day like water after a deluge, like electricity after a surge, like dandelions after the rain, like…well you get the idea, their power was unlike any ancient amulet or rabbit’s foot or leprechaun’s pot or four-leafed clover. The good fortune or whatever mystical magical inference you want to label, these panties had it. Yes, had, but before I reveal their sad end, I will start at their mythical beginning…
Zoo Days
18 May 2011 2 Comments
in Life Tags: poetry, Vermont, writing
All day the rain bounces on and off my green roof
while the dark stratus moving along the horizon
fills the three windows in my third story view;
each formation reminds me of zoo creatures
bound in cages we all visited as kids.
Chop Sticks and a Pencil
10 May 2011 1 Comment
in Life Tags: IIE program, Japan, Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program, Teacher Exchange Program for Education for Sustainable Development., Vermont
There are times when all of us agree to obligations, especially when it is a lone post in an empty square on our calendar, then, as that date rushes toward us and all the adjacent squares are bursting with other events, life can start to feel like too much. That’s pretty much how my spouse and I were feeling as we drove to the Burlington Hilton to pick up two Japanese teachers visiting Vermont as part of their Teacher Exchange Program for Education for Sustainable Development. Excited, but weary. As an alum myself of the now defunct Japan Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program ( it morphed into this new IIE program) I felt honored to be able to host and in effect give back to this extraordinary program so I jumped at the chance to do so, but when the pick-up day arrived, I questioned my over-extending nature.
