budget cuts

city budget cuts —
late summer dust motes float
through the library

. . . . . . .

Passing up 'boat ax,' the OED word of the day to say how sad it makes me to have Seattle libraries shut down for a week due to budget cuts.

imaginary heroes

imaginary heroes
usually (and quite rightly) help all

hate and anger
one came again to learn
were The trouble

. . . . . . . .

The OED word of the day for the erasure poem | commentary is 'orc,' a sort of ogre resurrected from Old English by Tolkien.

Peggy had the good idea to sketch in the Fremont library, the perfect location on a cold rainy January day: big tables AND stamps (unfortunately, I stamped the tiny Piglet upside down in the foreground!) AND stickers (Peggy used a cool thought balloon one).