the claims of reasonable gloom

[incandescens]

Really, really tired. Not sure why, but I am.

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Celebration

Brilliant, this day – a young virtuoso of a day.
Morning shadow cut by sharpest scissors,
deft hands. And every prodigy of green –
whether it's ferns or lichens or needles
or impatient points of buds on spindly bushes –
greener than ever before. And the way the conifers
hold new cones to the light for the blessing,
a festive right, and sing the oceanic chant the wind
transcribes for them!
A day that shines in the cold
like a first-prize brass band swinging along
the street
of a coal-dusty village, wholly at odds
with the claims of reasonable gloom.

-- Denise Levertov

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Probably lack of sleep? (Or your ferritin being naughty again...)

Get some rest, you! O:>

[incandescens]

(looks guilty) I did! And I will get plenty more this weekend!

(Hopefully not the ferritin. I am trying to make sure that I eat plenty of iron.)

[archangelbeth]

*looks dubious at the guilt* If you say so...

(Crossing fingers! ...I'm taking iron pills, m'self.)

[incandescens]

Do the iron pills feel as if they're helping at all?

[archangelbeth]

Well, my iron levels are much better now...

[incandescens]

But now you have to adjust to school time schedules again . . .

http://www.gilescartoons.co.uk/cartoon.asp?cartoon=81

[archangelbeth]

*CRY*

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Weather of the world, I think. Or season's turn, or some other draining event like that.

[incandescens]

Sounds quite plausible. I may have been up a little late, but not that late. Thank heavens for coffee.