Remaining Impenetrable, Does Mystery Offer or Withhold Itself?

However naked
she appears,
the fan dancer
will have left the stage
and you will have seen the show
with nothing
having been revealed.

Flitter

Alone in the mirror
the moment my father's smile
flits across my face.

Supersession

We five, alone on the dark hill
of the ruined and superseded temple,
looking down on the lights of Yogyakarta,
and returning to town
riding on the backs of hired motors,
their headlights sweeping the rice fields
from winding roads.

Health Care Jobs Program?

Indeed. Our new health care system will essentially be the same Rube Goldberg machine we have now with a few improvements. Most of the waste will be still be there. There's a whole lotta people in the health care biz who don't do no health care. And not only that, the job description of many of those folks is pretty much to harass and waste the time of those few of us who actually take care of sick people. It's sort of a Republican make-work program. My only reservation about Dr Ross's article is about Medicare itself: Medicare is great for patients--there's no problem getting reasonable services approved. But, at least in home care, Medicare works real hard to find a way to not pay providers for services already rendered.
http://www.toledoblade.com/article/20100808/OPINION04/8070349

Language Crank

"Homegrown" is tasty and...homey; "local," bland and merely descriptive.

After a Visit to a Country Where it Never Snows

In this latitude
wake to distant hammering
only in summer.

英語の日本の古典の詩

私は古典の短歌詩人たち(特にオノいいえの小町と和泉Shikibu)が好きです。 私は、あなたがそれらの仕事のバージョンが好きであることを望みます。 質問、コメント、あるいは批評〔非難〕が歓迎されます。