4.3 miles
marshall loop
35 degrees
The forecast was for 2+ inches of sloppy snow early this morning. Maybe rain too. Completely dry. Everything happened just south of us. Hooray! Great conditions for a run. Not too cold or too windy or too crowded. Today’s mental victory: I ran all the way up the marshall hill, over to the river, and down the summit hill without stopping. Stopped at the overlook on the bridge for a minute to check out the sandbar and the reflections and the smooth surface of the river. Beautiful.
10 Things
- egg/breakfast sausage smells coming from Black Waffle Bar — no sweet waffle smell
- no more leaves on the trees, all on the sidewalk
- cars backed up on lake street
- the light at the top of the hill: red
- smell: savory, eggs and bacon
- a car parked in a driveway blocking the path
- the bent and crooked slats from blinds in a garage window
- two people standing and looking at a stone wall above the ravine near shadow falls
- a roller skier on the path, then on the road
- several stones stacked on the ancient boulder
echo / / location
I can’t quite remember how it happened, but I was thinking about my Girl Ghost Gorge poems and echoes and chanting — oh, yes, it had something to do with sound and a call for submissions for soundscapes in poetry. As I thought about my rock river air chants, ECHOLOCATION, suddenly popped into my head!
Echolocation is a great title for this collection. Or, echo location. Or, echo | | location. Or, as Scott suggested, echo / / location. I looked it up and someone has a poetry collection with the title echolocation. Is that a problem? To have the same name? I’m not sure. I like the sound of girl ghost gorge, and a girl (me), her ghosts, and the gorge are the theme that inspired all of the poems. But, being located in time and space — both placing myself and being placed by others — seems even more like the theme. At the very least, I’d like to title the final poem of the collection, echolocation.
Here’s something to read about humans and echolocation: How Does Human Echolocation Work? It’s with Daniel Kish, Batman from a Radiolab episode.
The rest of today is about studying echolocation!
I mentioned echolocation in these past entries: