From: Pauline

To: All with us at Edisto, Literally or otherwise.

This was on Writer's Almanac this morning on the radio--it reminded me of our weekend.  A magical  bubble in time---and over so soon.
Hope everyone is home safely.
P.

WEDNESDAY, 31 MARCH, 2004
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Poems: "This Kind of Thing Doesn't Happen Often and When It Does You Should Pay Attention,"
by John Stone, from Music from Apartment 8 (Louisiana State University Press).

This Kind of Thing Doesn't Happen Often and When It Does You Should Pay Attention

      i thank heaven somebody's crazy
      enough to send me a daisy
      --e.e. cummings

On Piedmont Road, going north,
before my car there floated forth

a soapy bubble in the traffic,
glistening and holographic.

It drifted down into my path,
this ghostly sphere from someone's bath.

I watched it bob and almost tickle
A Harley-Davidson motorcycle

then rise (as it got quite exhausted)
That's where I left it, fair and frosted.

For this unexpected act
I thank heaven (I think), in fact,

that someone went to all the trouble
to blow me a bubble