Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
World traveller Michael Thompson shares some Ordinary Magic
He caught the poetry bug while taking Scott Starbuck’s Poetry of Climate Change class at Mesa College
- Ordinary Magic
- Magical, she calls it,
- first flash of sun
- splits the eastern horizon
- far out over Sea of Cortez.
- Osprey responds to my whistles
- short shrill calls from her morning perch
- on bluff above our camp.
- Six pelicans swoop low
- floating on still air,
- settle below blocky island,
- cliffs glowing yellow in early light.
- It’s 6:31. First outbound flight
- rattles windows of my San Diego home,
- aroma of kerosene wafts across my small front porch.
- Frigate birds drift on prehistoric wings
- high above translucent glass
- of Ensenada San Basilio.
- School of silver fish erupts
- from undulating chrome
- launching themselves once, twice, three times
- in pursuit, escape, or joy I cannot tell.
- Newscaster on KPBS tallies:
- commute south on Highway 5 slow-and-go,
- reports of motorcycle down on Fifteen south of Temecula,
- Coronado Bridge backed up all the way to the strand. . .
- My sister follows tracks
- that crisscrossed our camp in the night,
- finds small creature in its borrowed shell,
- sets it on her palm, studies it,
- crab emerges cautiously,
- studies her.
- Is it magical, I wonder,
- or have we just lost touch
- with the natural world’s everyday magic,
- and the extraordinary, but very outlandish magic
- that is all of us, its inhabitants?
Michael T. Thompson
After attending Helix High, Grossmont College, and San Diego State University, Michael and two friends built a 44’ boat, sailed past Point Loma and turned south. The sailing years included the Caribbean and an Atlantic crossing. Michael has managed aid projects in Sudan for the Canadian government, built an international distribution system for telecom technology, and designed and built modular, energy-efficient housing. He has worked as a technical writer, published newspaper and magazine articles, written one novel and some poetry. He currently lives in Ocean Beach and caught the poetry bug while taking Scott Starbuck’s Poetry of Climate Change class at Mesa College.
Here's something you might be interested in.
World traveller Michael Thompson shares some Ordinary Magic
He caught the poetry bug while taking Scott Starbuck’s Poetry of Climate Change class at Mesa College
World traveller Michael Thompson shares some Ordinary Magic
He caught the poetry bug while taking Scott Starbuck’s Poetry of Climate Change class at Mesa College
- Ordinary Magic
- Magical, she calls it,
- first flash of sun
- splits the eastern horizon
- far out over Sea of Cortez.
- Osprey responds to my whistles
- short shrill calls from her morning perch
- on bluff above our camp.
- Six pelicans swoop low
- floating on still air,
- settle below blocky island,
- cliffs glowing yellow in early light.
- It’s 6:31. First outbound flight
- rattles windows of my San Diego home,
- aroma of kerosene wafts across my small front porch.
- Frigate birds drift on prehistoric wings
- high above translucent glass
- of Ensenada San Basilio.
- School of silver fish erupts
- from undulating chrome
- launching themselves once, twice, three times
- in pursuit, escape, or joy I cannot tell.
- Newscaster on KPBS tallies:
- commute south on Highway 5 slow-and-go,
- reports of motorcycle down on Fifteen south of Temecula,
- Coronado Bridge backed up all the way to the strand. . .
- My sister follows tracks
- that crisscrossed our camp in the night,
- finds small creature in its borrowed shell,
- sets it on her palm, studies it,
- crab emerges cautiously,
- studies her.
- Is it magical, I wonder,
- or have we just lost touch
- with the natural world’s everyday magic,
- and the extraordinary, but very outlandish magic
- that is all of us, its inhabitants?
Michael T. Thompson
After attending Helix High, Grossmont College, and San Diego State University, Michael and two friends built a 44’ boat, sailed past Point Loma and turned south. The sailing years included the Caribbean and an Atlantic crossing. Michael has managed aid projects in Sudan for the Canadian government, built an international distribution system for telecom technology, and designed and built modular, energy-efficient housing. He has worked as a technical writer, published newspaper and magazine articles, written one novel and some poetry. He currently lives in Ocean Beach and caught the poetry bug while taking Scott Starbuck’s Poetry of Climate Change class at Mesa College.
Comments