Cell 2 Soul: The Humane Health Care Blog

Cold Landscape

This frigid landscape –
Image of blue, black and white
Winter's night is nigh...

Mt. Hope, Williamstown, 17.2.14

Sun Rise

the rising sun

grand entrance of winter dawn

over a white carpet

 

photo by david elpern, haiku by yoon cohen (1.26.14)

Country Road

the lonely road leads
to moments of solitude --
winter afternoon

 

(photo of Northwest Hill Williamstown, MA 1/24/14 (DJE).  Haiku by Yoon Cohen)

Dawn Patrol 1.4.14

Around 7:00 a.m.  Temperature minus 7 F.

Solo.  Dawn patrol
Every sky - all clear profit
As the great world turns.

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Country Is So Tender

Zoe Elpern took a motorcycle ride in the high Rockies above Aspen, Colorado on Saturday, September 21, 2013.  She sent us a few pictures taken on her iPhone.  The last picture was taken in late April, 2013. These photos reminded us of a memorable poem:

Binsey Poplars: felled 1879
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
for pdf: Download Aspens

My aspens dear, whose airy cages quelled,
Quelled or quenched in leaves the leaping sun,
All felled, felled, are all felled;

Of a fresh and following folded rank
                Not spared, not one
                That dandled a sandalled
              Shadow that swam or sank
On meadow and river and wind-wandering weed-winding
                   bank.

O if we but knew what we do
          When we delve or hew--
  Hack and rack the growing green!

  Since country is so tender
To touch, her being só slender,
That, like this sleek and seeing ball
But a prick will make no eye at all,

Where we, even where we mean
             To mend her we end her,
        When we hew or delve:
After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

 Ten or twelve, only ten or twelve
      Strokes of havoc únselve
          The sweet especial scene,
  Rural scene, a rural scene,
  Sweet especial rural scene.

On Poetry

Red Fox

On a morning run, I come across red fox.  We stand still, appraising eachother, then as I get my camera ready, another runner comes from opposite direction -- a quick shot and this beautiful ellusive beastie darts into the bushes leaving me alone in wonder and appreciation.

The Knolls, Williamstown 9/20/12

 

The Ordinary is Extraordinary

Dr. Yoon Cohen took this photo in her suburban Cleveland neighborhood on March 23, 2012. Please click on image to appreciate it better.

You may contact Yoon at Email.

Marginal Notes: Omens are made by men

"Night Light" copyright 2012 © Emily B. Maurer

Three nights ago
The sentinel streetlamp
In front of our house
Extinguished itself.
Our dim porch light struggled
To keep the darkness
At bay. more»

 

Brian T. Maurer has practiced pediatrics as a Physician Assistant for 32 years. His "Marginal Notes" column appears periodically in the Cell2Soul Blog. The title "Marginal Notes" is taken from a quote by Henry David Thoreau: "I love a broad margin to my life."