Wannaskan Almanac

  THIRD MOVEMENT  REMEMBERING SONG THIRTEEN A MIND UNDARKENED   I   “The sea smells of sharks,” says an old woman staring from shore. “They know when you’re coming. They scent your blood   and they live to slash and scatter you red in the blue flood.”   “I have been at sea,” I say to the crone “I know the deep waves, the sharks’ hunger for bone.   Sometimes there is simply nowhere else to be   but wind-bellying the sails against the sea.”   “But you search for True North?” she asks with a squint “A place spun of dream that cannot be found   that leads you to doldrums and running aground.”   “It is true what you say.  Just now, I’ve come here as I tried to tack North   but instead, the wind on my nose   forced a long run for this broad-flung bay  against the tide as the ice-moon rose   pushing against the flow  riding the current out wide.”   We stand staring out f...

  The Palmville Globe Volume 2 Number 13 Man Goes To Wrong Restaurant Joe McDonnell, 79 and a resident of Palmville Twp, Minnesota, was recently late for lunch because he went to the wrong restaurant with the same name as the right restaurant. "My wife and I were in a big city for a ceremony," he tells the press. "After the ceremony everyone was invited to a luncheon. I heard the name of the restaurant and that it was 12 miles down the freeway. My wife and I sat behind the driver and navigator.   I wondered why we stayed in the slow moving suburban traffic and didn't get on the freeway. I caught a glimpse of the navigator's smartphone and could see we were off course. I tried to say something, but they were deep in conversation and trusting their GPS. They only woke up when we pulled up at a defunct chain restaurant with the same name as our target restaurant." McDonnell and his companions eventually arrived at the restaurant about twenty minutes late. ...