Poetry Friday (again, late) Philip Larkin

Cut Grass

Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale.
Long, long the death

They die in the hours
Of young-leafed June,
With chestnut flowers,
With hedges snowlike strewn,

White lilac bowed,
Lost lanes of Queen Anne’s lace,
And that high-builded cloud
Moving at summer’s pace.

S & M Thursday, really late: Ocean stripes!

clipped from www.physorg.com Scientists reveal presence of ocean current 'stripes' An international collaborative of scientists led by Peter Niiler, a physical oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, and Nikolai Maximenko, a researcher at the International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii, has detected the presence of crisscrossing patterns of currents running throughout the world’s oceans. The new data could help scientists significantly improve high-resolution models that help them understand trends in climate and marine ecosystems.

Things I Hate

1. Reviews

2. Feeling so pressured to get work done that I don't take any time for myself.

3. Presentations

4. Minestrone CupASoup (bleh)

5. Not eating carbs.

6. The Vikings.

7. Waiting

8. Dental work

10. Deadlines

Trailer Tuesday: Something's Gotta Give

Music Monday: The Incomparable Marvin Gaye

This is long, but fantastic, and well worth your 9 minutes.