Creek Running North

Okay, I had to click the picture to see your Flickr page and then Google what I saw there. These are Darlingtonia californica or a cousin? Pitcher plants? And fairly uncommon?

The plants look like people mingling at a crowded cocktail party, rapt in conversation.

Death Tanka for an Ex

Lover! Enemy
brain cancer ate.  My demon
deflates. I made you

the perfect shape of anger.
I must balance my conscience.

Looks like a beautiful trip and pilgrimage.

I had been posting death tankas here (Harley and Zeke) and had one to put to rest under your beautiful photo.

What’s a tanka? (she says, too lazy to look it up)

And are they these cobra lilies, or is the cocktail party elsewhere?

The very same.

D’you know Chris, I only just realised you had Flickr? I just spent the last half-hour cruising your photos. Some beautiful stuff.

It’s a Japanese form of 31 syllables; the form can act to pare away the extraneous.

I posted death tankas for Harley and Zeke, and now for someone I knew.  The lilies seemed like a good place to put her death tanka under.  I didn’t think Chris would mind.

yrs,
B. Dagger

wow, chris.  just wow.

b. dagger lee— excellent tanka, and i am so sorry for its inspiration.  i don’t think you are a huggy person, but hope you will accept a virtual one.

one of the doctors at the family practice we have relied upon since 1990 was killed—along with her 2 beloved daughters.  in tilden park.  near inspiration point.  by their dad and husband.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/19/BAGSQQHPD713.DTL

the news articles do not at all capture that dr. kawai was a careful and caring doctor, one who cared for me and my kids at times over the years.  her skin care practice was on the side, so far as i could tell.  i can’t understand how this could happen.

Kathy, I’ve been watching that story unfold in some horror. I’m so sorry.