Banjo52

Conversation. Especially literature and language, education, football and baseball, movies, history, then and now, birds, two-lane roads. "Banjo" is a fun word, and the instrument can make fine music. But this isn't really a blog about banjos, except in the metaphorical sense of interesting sounds riding across a valley from one porch to another. Click on any photo to enlarge. Students, remember to footnote. All text and photos: © 2009-2014 Banjo52

Showing posts with label Kensington. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kensington. Show all posts
May 28, 2014

Spring and Dylan Thomas' "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"

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I'm pretty sure I was a college freshman when I first encountered Dylan Thomas' "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives ...
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May 8, 2014

Poking and Prodding: e.e. cummings’ “O sweet spontaneous” and the Nature of Nature (and; un-Schooling

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At Kensington Metropark the other day, I discovered an island hubbub, a rookery full of Great Egrets, Great Blue Herons, and Co...
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Dec 24, 2013

Billy Collins' "Snow Day" and the Gift of Gab

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Sandhill Cranes It seems everyone wants me to like Billy Collins’ poetry, and for the most part, I do. I especially like what he and t...
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Oct 31, 2010

Susan Mitchell, "Feeding the Ducks at the Howard Johnson Motel"

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Susan Mitchell's poem contains both comedy and darkness. The water in today's pics strikes me as ominous, but my ducks seems entirel...
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Michigan, Ohio River Valley, United States
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