Tuesday, May 10, 2022

Poem for Tuesday, Great Falls Birds, Doctor Strange 2

Skills
By Jonathan Aaron

Blondin made a fortune walking back and forth
over Niagara Falls on a tightrope—blindfolded,
or inside a sack, or pushing a wheelbarrow, or perched on stilts,
or lugging a man on his back.  Once, halfway across,
he sat down to cook and eat an omelette.
 
Houdini, dumped into Lake Michigan chained
and locked in a weighted trunk, swam back to the boat
a few moments later.  He could swallow more than a hundred needles
and some thread, then pull from between his lips
the needles dangling at even intervals.
 
I can close my eyes and see your house
explode in a brilliant flash, silently,
with a complete absence of vibration. And when I open them again,
my heart in my mouth, everything is standing
just as before, but not as if nothing had happened.

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I had a quiet Monday morning doing work and laundry so that, in the afternoon, and I could go see Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. There were many things I loved about it (America Chavez, both Benedicts, Elizabeth Olsen, Christine having a much bigger role than the previews suggested, humor, cameos) and a couple of things I did not (zombies, why did it have to be zombies, and we need to have a conversation about maternity throughout the MCU -- what a Mother's Day weekend movie, ha). 

Overall, I was glad I saw it on the big screen though it's a direct sequel to two small-screen shows plus two films, and there were only about 10 other people in the theater -- first time we've been in the Westfield Montgomery complex since it changed from Arclight to AMC. Since we were already at the mall, we picked up Cava to bring home for dinner, then we watched some more Hacks, which is fantastic and I can't believe I waited this long to watch it. Here are some of the bird species we saw at Great Falls yesterday: 

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