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Wavelength # 10
I hold in my hand the slender, handsome volume that is the latest issue of Wavelength, Fall and Winter 2004. Wavelength was a well-kept secret, at least to me. I only discovered it last year when I attended the inaugural Kentucky Writers Conference down at Western and met its editor and publisher David Rogers. David is a soft-spoken man and a delighful poet who puts this little magazine together as a labor of love. You can subscribe to Wavelength: Poems in Prose and Verse ($15/3 issues) or submit by writing to:
David Rogers
1573 Fisher Ridge Road
Horse Cave, KY 42749
The current Wavelength features such notable Kentucky poets as Jane Stuart, Dory Hudspeth and, ahem, Sherry Chandler. You’ll find my entry, “Walking to Ramsey’s” on my poetry page. It is an evocation of spring.
Photo by Alan D. Wilson, www.naturespicsonline.com
I saw a Great Blue Heron yesterday, when I was driving to and driving from work. (Almost made the drive worth it.) This morning of February 5th, 2005, the sky is clear and starlit. We have the kind of hoarfrost that always makes me think of “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” (It’s that word “rime.” Coleridge was pretty silly sometimes.) The Big Dipper hangs directly over my head wherever I stand. The hoot owls should be mating right about now, and since spring does not subscribe to an ownership society, I live in hope that a few short weeks will see it shed its abundance on us all.
Addendum: Great blue herons are rare in Kentucky. The US Geological Survey puts them at less than one per 15-mile radius in both the Christmas Bird Count and the Breeding Bird Survey. For years, I have seen the occasional bird along Paris Pike, a 12-mile stretch that follows the old buffalo trace from Paris to Lexington, Kentucky. When the bulldozers destroyed the wet-weather pond where I usually saw them, I was afraid that would be it. But I’ve seen a few this year and last. So I suppose the millions of dollars in wetland replacement was efficacious. And, Georgia, we may have seen the same bird. A friend about a mile down the road from you has also seen a Northern Harrier, a rare raptor for Kentucky. Must be something about that old horse farm cum housing development that still attracts birds.
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1. Georgia replies at 5th February 2005, 10:04 am :
Ernie and I have seen a huge blue heron in our Lexington sub-division, too. It was magnificently incongruous perched on the rooftop of our very near neighbor. I wonder if it was the same one? How many can there be in these parts in the dead of winter? … The web site looks beautiful. I look forward to reading it every morning with my first cup of coffee. Georgia
2. Elizabeth replies at 5th February 2005, 12:45 pm :
I saw a blue heron last week, as well. I am trying to remember exactly where it was–somewhere between Owenton and Carrollton I believe. Eliz.
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