Walk Notes From Zone 4 Occasional Writing From Blayney Colmore Bernard Mizeki June 19, 2012 If you have to stand on your head to make somebody happy, all you can expect is a big headache. – Eileen Beckerman the sun soon hits her height and from apogee summer so long awaited casts long light across array of incredulity Greece may have her pique provoked Angela Merkel marking her as profligate Mitt may miss his mojo mitigated by Barack begging his business bonafides Iran’s ire may be raised by members of the nuclear club cold-shouldering her application Roger Clemens may be thumbing his nose at the guardians of the gates of America’s pastime purity Lance Armstrong may wonder whether double jeopardy may make mockery of his late maturing triple tri Tiger may take time to turn back the clock to days of his ascendency – if ever a plague of drones may create contempt for Barack’s Nobel prize our economy may take eons – if ever – to support our best brag land of opportunity a pigeon on the cemetery walk last week wouldn’t fly she let us get just near enough to see she had a tag a carrier or racer consulting internet sites we brought water grain she was briefly joined by another banded bird during last week’s heavy rain Cosmos alerted me to her huddled under the barn eaves took her more water and grain went back an hour later to check dead removed her tag and searched for sites to send word the moth on the garage floor so perfect untouched but dead I brought him into the house and placed him carefully in the arrangement Lacey had created wondering what happened grateful for his delightfully distracting corpse promiscuous poppies putting pudenda plainly in shameless sight jungle here everywhere goslings growing foraging for food in Lacey’s vegetable garden Cosmos chases we holler geese retreat briefly we net the blueberries but fill the feeder for food and our viewing pleasure make it all work seamlessly together if you can if not… my mother made her mark on me always assigning a long walk as prefect prescription for … well, for everything Kai and I took her up on that