[Ravensfort] OT, LOTM

James Northfolke jamesnorthfolke at gmail.com
Thu Sep 24 10:10:42 PDT 2009


Have you seen Jack-In-The-Green?
With his long tail hanging down.
He sits quietly under every tree ---
in the folds of his velvet gown.
He drinks from the empty acorn cup
the dew that dawn sweetly bestows.
And taps his cane upon the ground ---
signals the snowdrops it's time to grow.


Epps, David wrote:
>
> Being Dutch Elm It should probably be… Zegen u
>
> Charles
>
> *From:* ravensfort-bounces+icc_dce=shsu.edu at lists.ansteorra.org 
> [mailto:ravensfort-bounces+icc_dce=shsu.edu at lists.ansteorra.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *Hoffpauir, David
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:56 AM
> *To:* Raven's Fort Barony of
> *Subject:* [Ravensfort] OT, LOTM
>
> The Lord of the Manor would have me announce:
>
> We had a huge Dutch Elm in the far-down yard covered with climbing 
> fig. It had a face
>
> attached to it made from bits of mortar formed into eyes and lids and 
> a brow. It had a
>
> mouth, with fleshy lips and a big toothy smile. It also had a nose, 
> just like your nose,
>
> only bigger. Framed in the climbing fig, I'd often think of the Great 
> Mythical Hunter Herne,
>
> from Celtic lore, or his more familiar incarnation, The Green Man.
>
> The other night, in the middle of the night, for no apparent reason at 
> all, the great
>
> tree broke off across the trunk about six feet up or four inches below 
> Herne's chin.
>
> All was quiet and still. One pop, and a pause... Then another "POP!" 
> ...and a long
>
> pregnant pause... Then with a crash that echoed out and down all this 
> rolling valley's
>
> miles, the great tree fell.
>
> I won't mention much on all the domestic frenzy which ensued from two 
> adults and two
>
> dogs, all lying in bed together, in the dead, pitch dark of a rural 
> country night, as
>
> all scrambled for what each considered to be their own notion of 
> "safety." It was a
>
> tangled mess of carbon based life forms, to say the least, but the 
> tree fell far enough
>
> away that none was harmed.
>
> The next morning when we looked, Herne's eyes and mouth remained in 
> place. His toothy
>
> smile askew and now parallel with the ground. His eyes were a wee bit 
> kilter, with a
>
> crossed look and crumpled brow like that of a goat that had eaten 
> something bitter. The
>
> nose was gone. It lay in the grass some distance away, nostrils up, 
> and backwards,
>
> flared and full of saw dust. We surmise, after eighty years of gnats 
> and flies and ant
>
> trails, of tickly squirrel tails and woodpecker pecks, dust and saw 
> dust, and pollen
>
> and other things blown in on the air, that the great tree had simply 
> sneezed...
>
> Bless you, Herne. Thanks for missing the house.
>
> Regards,
>
> DSD
>
> David R. Hoffpauir
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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