https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/category-1528-ce en 2005-2012 shakespearesmonekys@gmail.com 42.65593 -71.33391 Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:27:31 GMT yacs http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 70 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8886-the-idea-of-order-at-sunset-on-the-mendocino-coast https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/article-8886-the-idea-of-order-at-sunset-on-the-mendocino-coast The Idea of Order At Sunset on the Mendocino Coast A single bat flew in and out of the pine grove like a confused swift, diving and jerking against the pastel horizon's merging of violet to red. It returned, a dark dab against orange like a defect in a movie passing over the screen. I made a small fire of newspaper and twigs. Smoke swirled as randomly as a bat's flight. Sticks glowed orange and disintegrated into white ash. The bat flew out, dipped down to the high grass and disappeared again. Above the ceaseless sussuration of the ocean, thin and white against the high violet, a sickle of moon shone, too weak to be reflected-- and I feared shrinking into something less than bat, lint on a projector's lens, a defect on your screen, maybe, maybe as random. ... more C. E. Poetry Workshop Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:32:17 GMT /section-114-poetry-workshop#comments 0 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/post.php/article/8886 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/comments/feed.php/article/8886 https://dev.shakespearesmonkeys.com/links/trackback.php?anchor=article%3A8886