I’m back! What did I miss? (Besides… well, everything on C-SPAN, I guess.)
After about two weeks, I am officially back on the job, feeling refreshed and 60 dollars poorer from purchasing an Inter Miami t-shirt at MIA. Firstly, I’d like to give some flowers to interim editor Jeff Whitten for holding down the fort while I was gone. He’s a real trooper; Adobe InDesign can be such a pain.
I’m very thankful that my office (a) still exists and (b) didn’t change too much while I’m gone. All of my stationary and scent fragrance plugs are still in place, and I have not come across a roach or wasp yet in the bathroom. Maybe the little buggers found a new townhome in Richmond Hill to bother instead.
We are in the month of March, and spring is almost upon us, so for this week I picked out a few springtime poems to share with you all for old time’s sake.
What would this column be without my love of poetry? I bet it would probably be used as kitty litter, alongside the comics pages.
Aubade, Rick Barot
Scintillas of the anatomical on the vines, buds opening— make me a figure for the woken.
On the vines, buds opening— blue, little throats.
For the woken, this different tin sky.
Blue, little throats speak to me in the right voice. This different tin sky, the playground thawing.
Speak to me in the right voice, only clean, sweeter.
The playground thawing into its primary colors.
Only clean, sweeter, briary as honeysuckle, into their primary colors the words come: bitter, astral.
Briar—as honeysuckle, as attic webs, constellated into their primary colors.
White, or whiter.
The words come: bitter, astral. Make me a figure, blue little throats, scintillas of the anatomical.
Daisy Time, Marjorie Pickthall
See, the grass is full of stars, Fallen in their brightness; Hearts they have of shining gold, Rays of shining whiteness.
Buttercups have honeyed hearts, Bees they love the clover, But I love the daisies’ dance All the meadow over.
Blow, O blow, you happy winds, Singing summer’s praises, Up the field and down the field A-dancing with the daisies.
Andrea Gutierrez is the managing editor of the Bryan County News.