A five things post

[shewhomust]

1. The Guardian celebrated the fourth of July with a US-themed travel supplement. I enjoyed Andrew Mueller's account of the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, even before we reached the guest cameo appearances...



2. Another one from The Guardian: The New Bookshop in Cockermouth reopened at the weekend, after last year's floods, and a number of authors turned up to celebrate. Jacob Polley wrote a poem, A Book of WAter:

   I bought a book of water,
   its pages bound in weed,
   its spine of muscled silver,
   its words too quick to read.
   
   I slept with it beside me
   laid open somewhere still
   but when I woke the story
   had reached the windowsills...



3. Not quite the last time I saw Jacob Polley, we were about to cross some uncontained water on the Good Shepherd IV - not quite the last time, because after the crossing we met again by chance in Lerwick. But here's a picture of our departure from Fair Isle:
   
   
   



4. via cherylmmorgan: Escher rendered in Lego.



5. No, that's all I've got.

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

I grew up in Pocatello, Idaho, which is not all that far geographically or socially from Elko. A couple of my mother's friends run a poetry festival, and she and I went out to visit her friends the week after one of the festivals. Thus, I got to sleep in the same bed that Lawrence Ferlinghetti had slept in the week before. A brush with greatness. Or something. :-)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

That's very cool!

Why have I heard of Pocatello, Idaho? It's in a song, isn't it (I can hear it...)?

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

It's in a song from "A Star is Born": "I was born in a trunk in Pocatello, Idaho", or something like that.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Yes, that's what I was thinking of - it came to me overnight, but you got there first!