The Blog from the Core - Thursday, August 24, 2006

Core: noun, the most important part of a thing, the essence; from the Latin cor, meaning heart.

		The Weblog at The View from the Core - Thursday, August 24, 2006

Instanod!

Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the link today to Sen. John McCain: A Speech on Containment of Iraq.

The Blog from the Core is also getting a large number of hits to The Battle of Iwo Jima in the wake of the death of Joe Rosenthal.

And, a recent popular blog entry is Meet Diana Irey, Rep. John Murtha's challenger for Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional district. I interviewed Diana again on Tuesday, Aug. 22, so I am working on a follow-up article.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 08/24/06 07:22:34 PM
Categorized as Blog Stuff.

"On a Bumblebee"

One of my poems turns Sweet Sixteen today.

On a Bumblebee

(August 24, 1990)

No.
August is
the cruellest month:
see, a bumblebee sits
on the dwarf snapdragon, many-flowered—
purple petals, most, with white chins,
huddling, hugging ground-close, spilling over sidewalk—
sits perfectly poised, grasping flower, ready to work;
sits perfectly still, all evening still; sits perfectly dead.
Lustreless black, dirty yellow, lifeless legs, still wings:
it carries now no careless menace about,
yet bears still strength in death
to cling to the living—
oh silent harbinger (yes)
of autumn's coming,
summer to
tread.

E. L. Core

Confer.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 08/24/06 08:12:15 AM
Categorized as Literary.

Cor ad cor loquitur — J. H. Newman — “Heart speaks to heart”