Saturday, September 15, 2007

Photo Blog V


An old shot of the fountain show at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. The best part of the fountain show are the random facts the loudspeaker will give on occasion. When I say random, I mean random. I don't remember exactly, but they're all along the lines of: "If you took all the bricks in the park, turned them into loaves of bread, and made peanut butter and jelly sandwiches out of them, it would provide lunch for all of Montanna's school children." They usually leave you looking at the people next to you and asking, "what?" Anyway, I like the shot, and it's a fun thing to check out if you're at the park in the summer.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Poem of the Day XVI

September Twelfth, 2001
by X. J. Kennedy from The Lords of Misrule: Poems 1992-2001

Two caught on film who hurtle
from the eighty-second floor,
choosing between a fireball
and to jump holding hands,

aren't us. I wake beside you,
stretch, scratch, taste the air,
the incredible joy of coffee
and the morning light.

Alive, we open eyelids
on our pitiful share of time,
we bubbles rising and bursting
in a boiling pot.

© 2002 X. J. Kennedy