Glenn Kubish

The first time I saw the toy elephant was a month ago. It was lying on its side in a patch of grass and leaves and twigs in the alley behind our house. That seemed wrong.  I put the plastic creature on its feet. Every morning walking to the bus, every evening coming back from the bus I glanced down to make sure it was still there. And until yesterday, it was. Yesterday when I came home there it was—in 34 pieces. Run over by a car? Smashed to pieces by someone's boot? What happened? I bent down and carefully picked up the shards and then carried them in a cupped hand into the house. There was never any question that I would glue the pieces back into some kind of form. I laid them out on a paper towel. Shelagh is in Minneapolis. I bought three tubes of Krazy Glue. (As I write this blog post there is still a distinct elephant glue aroma in the room.) I looked at the pieces until they began to resolve themselves into head, body and legs. The I re-constructed the minia...

We are back from the Jasper Park Lodge. This was Lac Beauvert being mirror to the mountains. Here are some other stills. The air was very clear as we moved through the Obed heights. The Hinton Eye. A roadside traffic sign blinked Sharp Shoulders at the instant Andy Maize sang My shoulder still burns... My shoulder does still burn. Shelagh drove there and back. Approaching Jasper is a joy in any season. We kept asking ourselves this time if we were just imagining the sky was brighter. It seemed vision went farther. The air was brilliant. The bar at the lodge. Two pints of Village Blonde. I looked for shapes in whatever the term is for the beer residue inside the glass. I saw a coyote nosing a buffalo skull. What does this mean? Fur remained fashionable. This was a pic of the watery mountains and trees and moon flipped to appear to be the things and not the reflections. We stayed  put. We didn't hike. We didn't walk. We ...