coherent lemons, if not lasers

The weather continues grey; work continues busy; I lack inspiration, or thought, or both.

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Ode to the Lemon

From blossoms
released
by the moonlight,
from an
aroma of exasperated
love,
steeped in fragrance,
yellowness
drifted from the lemon tree,
and from its planetarium
lemons descended to the earth.

Tender yield!
The coasts,
the markets glowed
with light, with
unrefined gold;
we opened
two halves
of a miracle,
congealed acid
trickled
from the hemispheres
of a star,
the most intense liqueur
of nature,
unique, vivid,
concentrated,
born of the cool, fresh
lemon,
of its fragrant house,
its acid, secret symmetry.

Knives
sliced a small
cathedral
in the lemon,
the concealed apse, opened,
revealed acid stained glass,
drops
oozed topaz,
altars,
cool architecture.

So, when you hold
the hemisphere
of a cut lemon
above your plate,
you spill
a universe of gold,
a
yellow goblet
of miracles,
a fragrant nipple
of the earth's breast,
a ray of light that was made fruit,
the minute fire of a planet.

-- Pablo Neruda

oh well, I knew it was coming

Damn. Npower have gone and raised their rates now -- Npower said domestic customers would see an average rise of 14% for electricity and 26% for gas, effective immediately. They're the ones who supply me.

Still, I knew it was coming (all the power companies are doing it at the moment), and it's not as bad as some of them. And at least I'm on straight electricity, not gas.

Better put a blanket or shawl or two on the knitting schedule for winter.