Month: April 2010
Four Haiku for Spring – Marjory Bates Pratt
FOUR HAIKU FOR SPRING Why these thoughts of spring? Is it the smell of the air, the light on the snow? *** For spring gardening, to shake out the dried loam from last fall’s shoes. *** Clear weather at last! The gray hills are green again & five miles nearer. *** He lies in the […]
Ornithology – Chris Agee
Ornithology Sophocles calls birdwatching a hallmark of men; it jostles beside language, law, ethics, navigation. What could he have meant? Augury? Love of elusive difference? The pagan proclivity for fauna? The zoomorphy of myth? I surmise too the power of naming, Eve dreaming in […]
Maine ocean windfarming bill passed into law: Monhegan & more distant offshore get the incentives
Several takes on the conclusion of LD 1810, An Act to Implement the Recommendations of the Governor’s Ocean Energy Task Force What all sources agree on is that the state is leapfrogging over state waters to much windier sites ten miles and more offshore for utility size windfarming. It is also noted that the state […]