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HOW TO BE A WALL
Sid Gomez Hildawa (+)
from his Palanca-winning poetry collection Building a House
If you are made of wood,
be termite-proof. Or better be made
of recycled fiber and particles,
so the few remaining trees
in the mountain of eroding slopes
can huddle in peace and the loggers
find other jobs.
If glass, have some parts of you
frosted, so that children
do not slam into you in their hurry to grow up,
looking for or leaving behind their parents.
If masonry, as in poetry,
be judicious with enjambments,
allowing for each stone a place
to expire dry or perspire mossy
or even harbor an airborne seed
that sprouts a tree, within the pattern
of blocks and overlaps.
You are both fortress and prison,
conqueror and divider, inverted curtain
that rises from the ground to embrace
what belongs inside and keeps out what
is not wanted, depending on where you face.
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A shot of a trio of clay pots hanging outside the wall of my house, taken on November 2008.
The monument to Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson at Mannasas, Virginia. It was here, during the First Battle of Bull Run, that the nickname "Stonewall" was given to Jackson by another general.
The Stonewall Building, aka the American Life Building, was built in 1940 or 1926 depending on who you ask. It has been abandoned for around 30 years.
Loving the Christmas decorations this year at Stonewall Kitchen in York, Maine. They always have the best holiday displays! The reflection of the tree in the puddle caught my eye.
ANSH84: 1. Christmas Lights outdoors
It's great to feature one of my favorite places in the Monadnock region on the new phone book. Stonewall Farm in Keene, NH
Stonewall Park CC - 1st XI Vs Bidborough CC - 2nd XI
Kent County Village League - Division 3
Saturday 16th June 2018
Stonewall Park
The little house where Stonewall Jackson breathed his last. His arm is buried nearby. This is the Stonewall Jackson Shrine. Check out the photos of the bed and clock also.