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Honorable Mention Memories of an Old Chinese Proverb Gary Blankenship *At the start of Korea’s confict, General MacArthur issued no winter clothing because the war would be over by summer.* Starlings trill their simple summer tune as songbirds tumble from seasoned skies – blue, scarlet, brown, orange and gray. There are no horses in California, only barrel racers whose make-up drips on faded tickets to a show that never opens. *The number of cases of “that old TB” is on the rise, perhaps in conjunction with the heterosexual disease Aids or* because the ice at Barrow melts earlier each year. An otter mother wraps her child in kelp before she dives Kachemak Bay for another fisherman’s catch. Does she miss Prince William Sound and the cry of sea urchins beneath Columbia Glacier’s bergs? Spruce beetles march down the Tanana River, Peace and Laird to discover how much they like white pine and poplar. *The survival rate for meningitis is less today than when a serum was developed the beginning of the last century.* I hear the ring neck call the morning sun and the sound of frost as a saw whines cutting winter’s wood . In a cave in Kenya, an ancient life-form waits its turn on the wheel as I brew a second pot of coffee and forget the pictogram for dawn. |
