Senses working overtime #342

1 RIP Robert Bly

My favourite poet of the 20th Century has died aged 94. I fell in love with his deep image poetry while studying at Auckland University under the tutelage of Wystan Curnow and Roger Horrocks. 

His legacy is immense.

2 Twenty bad movies, that are actually good (apparently)

3 Poetry corner

In the Discount Lot

Angela C. Trudell Vasquez

Outside the grocery store laden with the sweat of tanned field workers we stand          little girls in winter coats our hands hold signs leaflets our dark long hair waist length one straight, one curly we say to the people who walk up to the glass door don’t buy the lettuce here— they aren’t good to their workers I don’t recall anyone said anything back or who stood with us I remember my sister next to me,      us in our Sunday velvet best she     beret and red plaid jacket me     white rabbit skin muff little brown girls with picket signs rosy cheeks, big black eyes legions of ghosts above              behind angels wing over us ancestor feathers beat in the invisible breeze each time someone enters or exits the building— with a bag full of groceries oranges and eggs celery and grapes.

4 Return of Seth's wisdom

Pushing, pulling and leading

Tug boats don’t usually tug. They push.

That’s because pushing is more mechanically efficient than pulling. When we pull, there’s tension and slack in the ropes, and the attachment between the puller and the pushed keeps changing.

But the metaphor gets far more interesting when we think about leading instead.

One bird at the head of the flock can lead 100 others if they’re enrolled in the journey. That bird would never be able to pull (or push) even one bird, never mind all of them.

5 George Harrison on the true experience

Overtime: Perfecting the New York Street