Tag: Whimsy
Cocheco or Cochecho?
That is, one h or two? Even before we get to COCHECAW / COCHECOW amid a host of other Colonial spellings.
A 1771 map of New England has no Dover (settled in 1623) but Rochester and Durham, later offshoots, as well as the KOCHECKA RIVER.
Also, that map shows Cape Neddick, Maine, as Bald Point, and Winnipesauke Lake, the the north, as Winipissionket Pond.
There’s so much to untangle in such evidence.
The widely used one-h spelling, by the way, is traced to a clerk’s error in 1827 in the founding of the Cocheco Manufacturing Company, building on the cotton mills started in 1812 at the waterfalls downtown.
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rarely watch the telly
commercial end, no, specially
commercial end, rarely
watch the telly, no, specially
the telly, rarely the end
commercial, no, specially
when I hold the remote
changing channels, no
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companion desk
domestic arrangements
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“peregrino” = “pilgrim”
hence, peregrin falcon
praying / preying in the air
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Up in smoke, then
Up in the air
Quaker agitator?
Like the pole/paddle in an old-fashioned washing machine.
No longer just an observer but an actor.
Or cleansing agent.
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as the kid said
“I stayed up till tomorrow”
Once again in a northern winter
the sunset magnifies itself in the ice
in a long stretch toward the horizon light
through thin bands of trees
Jnana's Red Barn 