60 minutes to sketch

trying to make any sort of sense of
The awkwardly symmetrical pieces

It was disastrous to have One Single Hour

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The OED word of the day for the erasure commentary is the verb 'rhubarb.' So now we know that rhubarbing is what actors do to create a background murmur, but we still don't know why it's the word rhubarb they are repeating!

It was all happening at Hing Hay Park this weekend. Loved all the seniors in l - o - n - g lines for the free McDonalds smoothies and the Snoqualmie Casino bags. I had a kickass place to sketch, one of the few little tables in the park... until the lion dance started and everyone jammed several people deep in front of me. The elderly Chinese gent who was sharing my table gave me a little empathetic smile. Larger version here.

the starry stream

60...
(in child's Time
some Stone age)

springing from and encircling
A flower in a spiral shell,
what a lovely shell,

With delicate heart,
patterns coil, curl,
against the open mouth of a Monster,
rising up between
successive whorls of the starry stream.

Vast clouds roll in heavy before the wind
drawn to the stars
in patterns too intricate for our eyes

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The Seattle UrbanSketchers met in the International District for today's worldwide sketch crawl, where I did this sketch of the pavilion in Hing Hay Park. A pair of elderly men were practicing qi gong to music, which provided a wonderful ambiance.

The OED word of the day for today's erasure poem is 'whorl.'