Peter Behrens's Blog, page 416
April 17, 2015
April 16, 2015
Pilgrim. Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band.
AL's official theme song: Pilgrim. Steve Earle & the Del McCoury Band. Emmylou Harris singing backup.
Not the NJ Turnpike
From Colin Washburn, crossing Nevada on "The Loneliest Road in America".
Love that lonely.
It's hard to find.
Our contendah in Maine would be State Route 9, the section from Bangor to Calais, which is called "The Airline" for reasons nobody remembers.
And that's Caliss, by the way.
Love that lonely.
It's hard to find.
Our contendah in Maine would be State Route 9, the section from Bangor to Calais, which is called "The Airline" for reasons nobody remembers.
And that's Caliss, by the way.
April 15, 2015
Winky Lewis photograph: The Jeepster & Isle au Haut.
both photographs ©Winky Lewis 2015 Winky Lewis and Susan Conley's remarkable book project is Stop Here. This is the Place. (One Year in Motherland). Isle au Haut is out in Penobscot Bay. Sometimes when Scout's still in Bill Grant's boatshed we catch the Aisle a Ho mailboat out from Stonington just to get out on the water. Islands and islands. Casco Passage, Merchants Row. Lots of rocks. It's impossible not to see a schooner in the summer. Sailing those waters, you need to keep an eye on the chart. But everyone who sails in Maine hits rocks sooner of later. We'll probably hop the mailboat this weekend. There's another yellow Jeepster living over in Brooklin, on the other side of Eggemoggin Reach.
Maine Calling & Tony Hoagland's Disappointment
Perhaps you heard Garrison Keillor read Tony Hoagland's poem "Disappointment" on NPR this morning. If you're autoliterate, you will remember Tony's astonishing poem America which we posted with Tony's permission last year. Tony will be Jennifer Brooks' guest today on Maine Calling on MPBN radio. Richard Blanco, Betsy Sholl, and Steve Luttrell are also on board. The show is 'Why Poetry Must Matter', which sounds a bit desperate. Poetry matters only if you read poetry. Good poetry matters the way strong weather does: wakes you up, makes you wonder about being alive.
Disappointmentby Tony Hoagland I was feeling pretty religiousstanding on the bridge in my winter coat
looking down at the gray water:
the sharp little waves dusted with snow,
fish in their tin armor.That’s what I like about disappointment:
the way it slows you down,
when the querulous insistent chatter of desire
goes dead calmand the minor roadside flowers
pronounce their quiet colors,
and the red dirt of the hillside glows.She played the flute, he played the fiddle
and the moon came up over the barn.
Then he didn’t get the job, —
or her father died before she told him
that one, most important thing—and everything got still.It was February or October
It was July
I remember it so clear
You don’t have to pursue anything ever again
It’s over
You’re free
You’re unemployedYou just have to stand there
looking out on the water
in your trench coat of solitude
with your scarf of resignation
lifting in the wind."Disappointment” by Tony Hoagland from What Narcissism Means to Me. © Graywolf Press, 2006. (buy now)
April 14, 2015
Ain't That America?
Supersize me...I think it started with the Louisiana Purchase. Before.We've always been the land of excess.The front bumper of the Continental would make a good bench seat for a tailgate party.
Jeep. Maine. Spring.
Saw it at Motorland in Arundel, on the way to Goose Rocks. Hunks of snow, and 70 degrees at the beach.
Corner of Milk & Pearl Streets, Portland Maine
It's April. Most of the snow is gone. Didn't believe it would happen, but it did.
April 13, 2015
1959 Rambler Ambassador on the way to Goose Rocks Beach.
We happened on our first swap meet of the year, at Motorland in Arundel, Maine. There are still hunks of snow on the Maine ground but we spent most of the day at Goose Rocks...
where the temp., even with sea breeze, got up to the delirious 70s.
The Flintstone Ride: VW Squareback: Carrol Gardens, Brooklyn
from Patrik Qvist:"I find myself taking pics of cars- the Volkswagen--flat back/ I think it was called [Squareback, in USA] is the first car with fuel injection electronic on the pancake motor. I had a beige one in NYC yrs ago- dubbed the flintstone ride due to the never working start motor - had a few adventures with that one in the Bronx ....! Photo in Carroll gdns, Bklyn My love to y'all - I'm off to abandoned lighthouse in Finland where I'll be teaching workshop w grad students for 2 weeks. I'm thinking Robert Wilson - like camp...:)--" pq
