1Hello at the margins.Hello Inuit suntan.That feels very dense to me, water.Grilling heat, goon of history.The ceiling fills with iceBut falls as rain.Oil is the new old gold; again. 2My legs acheWith the memory of beerThis time last night.Altocirrus when I close my eyes.In October it's still too hotFor a comforter. 3Man has changed the … Continue reading Icebergs
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Ice Magazine
The branches get heavy.The wires get heavy.They lavish themselveswith loosely hung belts of translucent sequinsand draping necklacesof drooping pearlsas they strut down winter's slick runway,bringing to groundthe century-old fadsof heated homesand cable tv.
The Sun Gets In The Way
When there isnowhere left to look,I look to the sky.When I cannot look into pawned jewelry boxes,into vases void of flowers;when I am looking for echoes,for the sound of her falling hairhitting the carpet,I look up. Up, up. One day I looked upand it was perfectly clear.Nothing was no clouds, just sun.The sun: my enemy, her … Continue reading The Sun Gets In The Way
Raindrop
Frayed like lightning, dropped from the clouds, wet and unique from all others, hitting the pavement with a smash, existing everywhere at once.
Is it Ever Gonna Rain in Austin Again?
From October 29, 2005 at 0:22 Up late, motor has been whirring all day. Twocups of coffee in the morning, around 8/8:30. Butthen nothing. Two slices pumpkinbread b-fast. No lunch whatsoever. Work at law school, jobinterview w/ Army Corps of Engineers. Homeby 3:30 after stopping to buy booze at Dan's Liquor on Lavaca near Capitol. … Continue reading Is it Ever Gonna Rain in Austin Again?
Triage
Put down your forcefield, sugar.
I grew my hair this way for you.
Do you see the skin of which I dreamt?
Torn to and fro, it reveals pools of co-habitation.
Supplies like bread, and soda, and diapers.
I can get these things for you — free-like.
We’ll have a hot time in the old city tonight, sugar.
For which do you care more — bourbon or gin?
Don’t spin your way out of here, not just yet.
I’ve got ways to free us from this island of dark sweat.
The canoe of opportunity, carved for me and you.
This town has never been a finer sculpture of mud and chemicals.
The skies have charmed it free of its alcoholic businessmen.
Let them comb hotel-room carpets looking for lost contact lenses.
We shall take our moldy crown in the throes of lineage, having outlasted
plaided Acadians, discombobulated Americans, and fur-trading French.
Dredge this lake, and you'll know the ways of a queen.
The Feds, the governors, the mayors:
they hold no quarter for us now.
We don't stand in line for them.
They stand in lines for us.
Record High Temperatures in Austin
The temperature climbed as high as 106 degrees Fahrenheit today in Austin, TX. This was a record high for a September 26 in Austin. The previous record was 99 degrees, set in 1923. The record temperatures are partially a result of Austin's position in the wake of Rita. There is "return flow" from the gulf that is swamping Austin in what I figure is more or less "old air."
This continues the tease that Hurricane Rita has proven herself to be, at least in Austin, TX. I mean no flippancy to those who suffered from Rita. But 106 degrees on September 26 is unfathomably hot. It was 91% humidity at 7:24 this morning. I recorded a low temperature of 69 degrees, this morning around seven. The highest low for Austin on a September 26 is 79 degrees, in 1977.
For a chart of these records, check out the NOAA page.
The special weather statement for Austin is listed on Austin's K-EYE news wesbite, a CBS outlet.
I also want to point out that it hasn't rained but once in Austin since I moved back down here on August 27, 2005. People who went to the Austin City Limits Music Festival this last weekend said it was like the dust bowl. One guy said he couldn't sleep, for the dust in his nose wouldn't let him breathe. He was waking up at 3 in the morning to shoot dustballs out of his nose. Nasty.
Austin High Temp
It was up to 105.8 degrees fahrenheit here in Austin, TX today. That was the high reading on my thermometer, though nearby temperatures were recorded at 107 or even 108. I was outside in the morning and started sweating after walking only a couple of hundred feet. Forecast: Monday, tomorrow (9.26.05), also will be hot. … Continue reading Austin High Temp
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