[Soaring Feather]

Birthday celebrations today.





Edmund Jennings Randolph, the first U.S. attorney general,
in 1753;

Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States, in 1874;

actor Jack Haley (the Tin Woodsman in "The Wizard of Oz")
in 1898;

actresses Norma Shearer in 1902 and Rhonda Fleming in 1923
(age 83);

guitar maker Leo Fender in 1909;

singers Jimmy Dean and Eddie Fisher, both in 1928 (age 78);

rock musician Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull in 1947 (age 59);

actors Rosanna Arquette in 1959 (age 47)

Antonio Banderas in 1960 (age 46).

[Soaring Feather]

Imprinted


I saw the desert from the plane
the images still remain
set like wrinkles in permanent press
like giant wandering sand serpents
laid down with valleys deep
between the mounds

It was awesome indeed
to know sometimes a tiny seed
may fall upon that barren ground
and blossom full and deep and round.