Demon Drink

A quiet spent reading the newspaper or reading a book and watching a bit of TV.

Watched an Horizon programme on the earth's core, and this evening the last of the Sherlock Holmes stories. However, I have a feeling that there could be another series next year with the twist at the end of tonight's story.

Yesterday popped into the Evening Star to try a couple of beers not seen before , Magic Rock Rock Star (7.0% ABV) and SWB Diablo IPA (6.% ABV).

Interesting two part pull outs from the Guardian / Observer on memory and ways to preserve it. It will be something to consider as we get older, that keeping the brain cells actives is a good way to halt dementia.

Writer's Block: Poetry Break

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On What Planet
By Kenneth Rexroth
Uniformly over the whole countryside
The warm air flows imperceptibly seaward;
The autumn haze drifts in deep bands
Over the pale water;
White egrets stand in the blue marshes;
Tamalpais, Diablo, St. Helena
Float in the air.
Climbing on the cliffs of Hunter’s Hill
We look out over fifty miles of sinuous
Interpenetration of mountains and sea.

Leading up a twisted chimney,
Just as my eyes rise to the level
Of a small cave, two white owls
Fly out, silent, close to my face.
They hover, confused in the sunlight,
And disappear into the recesses of the cliff.

All day I have been watching a new climber,
A young girl with ash blonde hair
And gentle confident eyes.
She climbs slowly, precisely,
With unwasted grace.

While I am coiling the ropes,
Watching the spectacular sunset,
She turns to me and says, quietly,
“It must be very beautiful, the sunset,
On Saturn, with the rings and all the moons.”

Kenneth Rexroth, "On What Planet" from The Collected Shorter Poems. Copyright © 1940 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation.

Source: The Collected Shorter Poems (New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2003)