Entries for date "July 2006"

Poem: Walking with grace

The air feels like another season. Thoughts and feelings And the sun’s track Are simultaneously New and the same. Deeply rich as ever Though with the unfamiliar weight Of a new pair of shoes Now I walk with grace. Strong smells of the nutmeg trees Dropping their seeds on the…

Poem: My Dear Carotid

Forgive me these years Of quiet indifference Of cold shoulders And coy ignorance. Your acquaintance was Made under less than Cordial circumstances: Dr. Stark’s Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy 201, To be exact. Oh, now I remember Who you are And what you do. When my wet eyes are closed My father’s…

Ocean Magazine: Cabo Pulmo

Cabo Pulmo I knew that lovely head of yours was churning poems Between the sun's fall and its rise again And that they'd be of water, sun, rocks But, you should know my each morning's quest: To reach your nest before the sun To hear your voice with the morning…

Deep Sea Research: Sea-surface temperature gradients across blue whale and sea turtle foraging trajectories off the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico

Peter Etnoyer, David Canny, Bruce R. Mate, Lance E. Morgan, Joel G. Ortega-Ortiz, Wallace J. Nichols. 2006. Sea-surface temperature gradients across blue whale and sea turtle foraging trajectories off the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, Volume 53, Issues 3–4: pp. 340-358, ISSN…

The truth

With the release Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, I’m on the verge of of one of the more "patriotic" July 4th’s since 1996 when I heard Seiji Ozawa conduct the Boston Symphony playing Copland's “Fanfare for the Common Man” (LISTEN here) at Tanglewood with James Earl Jones reading the…