By Dylan Thomas
Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire
And cast a shadow crab upon the land,
By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds,
Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks,
My busy heart who shudders as she talks
Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.
Shut, too, in a tower of words, I mark
On the horizon walking like the trees
The wordy shapes of women, and the rows
Of the star-gestured children in the park.
Some let me make you of the vowelled beeches,
Some of the oaken voices, from the roots
Of many a thorny shire tell you notes,
Some let me make you of the water's speeches.
Behind a post of ferns the wagging clock
Tells me the hour's word, the neural meaning
Flies on the shafted disk, declaims the morning
And tells the windy weather in the cock.
Some let me make you of the meadow's signs;
The signal grass that tells me all I know
Breaks with the wormy winter through the eye.
Some let me tell you of the raven's sins.
Especially when the October wind
(Some let me make you of autumnal spells,
The spider-tongued, and the loud hill of Wales)
With fists of turnips punishes the land,
Some let me make of you the heartless words.
The heart is drained that, spelling in the scurry
Of chemic blood, warned of the coming fury.
By the sea's side hear the dark-vowelled birds.
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Tuesday was a beautiful day and surprisingly warm -- over 55 degrees. I had to do the laundry I put off on the holiday Monday, and I had a bunch of other chores, but I also got to talk to Alice for an hour and Tracey for an hour and a half while I was doing them, so I had a nice day. We took a walk to the park to enjoy the afternoon, saw three eagles, then came home for my Voyager group though we didn't watch the finale because one person had to leave early.
We ate our leftover dinners from Valentine's Day at Yummy Pho for dinner, then we watched this week's Paradise, which remains really well-paced and well-acted. We also watched the first episode of the new season of White Lotus -- one of those shows I don't really love but they keep having cast members I do love, this time Jason Isaacs and Carrie Coon -- and a House episode. Some of the crabs, snails, and other small beach creatures we saw at Carkeek Park on Sunday:
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