Category Archives: Birds

The Graveyard on Devil Step Island

Posted on November 6, 2017 by Uncomely and Broken

My friend Adam and I had been planning to take his boat out on to Tims Ford Lake, and this Sunday seemed like the last possible day to do it until springtime. It was an unseasonably warm November day. Why … Continue reading →

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Ave atque Vale, Michael

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Uncomely and Broken

I often went over to watch election returns with Michael Hurst. He was a Republican, and I a Democrat; he a devoted Southerner, and I a “Massachusetts-American,” as he said. We disagreed on almost everything about national politics and agreed on … Continue reading →

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Facing Demons in Etruria

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Uncomely and Broken

Out to Fiumcino airport I went, thinking it would be easier to deal with a car rental there and get on to the E80 to Cerveteri and Tarquinia to look at the Etruscan tombs. Alas, Avis at FCO was an … Continue reading →

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Sight and Sounds of the Monteagle Flea Market, late June 2015

Posted on June 28, 2015 by Uncomely and Broken

The man selling homemade pork rinds is telling a customer, “Oh yeah, Obama’s got this country all screwed up. It’s gonna be World War Three.” I assume he’s talking about the Supreme a Court’s recent ruling on gay marriage, but … Continue reading →

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Protected: The Belle on the Bill

Posted on March 21, 2015 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Bye Bye Burdies?

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

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Introduction for Charles Martin

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Uncomely and Broken

Introduction to the Stacy Allen Haines Memorial Lecture Convocation Hall, University of the South Sewanee, Tennessee April 9, 2014 Perhaps it is true, as Auden says in memory of Yeats, that “poetry makes nothing happen,” but all I know is … Continue reading →

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Protected: Eagle and Child

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: A Sudden Chinook

Posted on December 3, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: The Ostrich and the Snake

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Uncomely and Broken

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