Green’s not very green*
it takes the red-brown of oak
to make it alive

the squares all greeny
began to shimmer wild-like
it needed the red

Driving home I see
the clouds dark blue-grey and pink
flags of deer flying.

Yelling in my ear.
You yell. You yell. You yell more.
I think about lunch.

* I couldn’t decide between this and

Green can be too green*
it takes the red-brown of oak
to make it alive

So many books about faeries, so little time!

Katharine Briggs, the author of tonight’s book The Vanishing People – Fairy Lore and Legends, has written:

The Personnel of Fairyland, The Anatomy of Puck, Folktales of England, The Fairies in Tradition and Literature, and An Encyclopedia of Fairies and British Folktales.

I had promised myself I could read Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman after my course work was done. I’d gotten a really good deal on the audiobook and then found a nice copy of the paperback. I started with the paper version and then switched to the audio and got further (oooooh the seductive voice of the author!). I found it fun going back and forth, not skipping ahead but catching up each time. Fun to hear his version first and then fun to hear my brain’s version and then his version second. Anyway, I finished the paper version and should finish the audio version tomorrow.

I loved this story. I loved the characters although I did have a few nagging questions. I guess I enjoyed being able to make up explanations on my own.

the waiting ended
this stretch of travel finished
but not the journey.

each thing we create
each thread of ourselves spun forth
each one with the world.

once the vision’s cast
living its life in the world
we must let it go.

slash across darkness
light with which morning’s eyes beams
both light and lightness

verdure, through darkness
forcing light through still eyelids
laying aside death.