Sometimes I accidentally write a whole poem — something that quacks like a poem, anyway — before remembering I’m not a poet. Which is something I might not get away with so easily in other professions, but poems — the quacking kind, anyway — don’t explode as readily as amateur rockets.
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tawny grammar is a notebook of nature and culture on the web and in the wild, kept by Steve Himmer. The name comes from Thoreau's essay "Walking", and the image above is the Bruder Klaus Field Chapel.