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The Spinoff
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Spinoff
The Friday Poem: ‘Cradle' by Calvin Smith
A new poem by Calvin Smith. Cradle after Hamad Butt It is 18 yellow glass bulbs held up together with metal wire and filled with chlorine gas. What more is there to say? Outside, I focus on the still nimbostratus, and sit shivering in the car, leaving the door open. Why is it that all these separate footsteps form a pattern? Like a light rain, or a kind of concerted drumming. Origin of dance, this carpark. The gesture preceding sound, preceding music: the net of people. And the same thing with the mouth, preceding sound: all poetry being really only for the mouth, like a kind of enactment. I want to be able to say the words damp flowers and mean only the movement, in the mouth, from the voiced dental plosive through to the voiceless bilabial plosive through to the movement after that as the lips, at the start of flower, seem to release the tongue again and the vowels open freely in a kind of wave. Damp flowers. Tulip bulbs. Stamen. Is this the closest we get, really, to a thing itself? This movement? Language only as a kind of bolus? Everything needs to be enacted. Those yellow plastic bags, there, on the concrete, slowly colliding in the wind— they are an enactment. And so is the rain. And a forehead resting against another forehead. And a hand placed against the small of the back. You step out of the car and you say damp flowers, and let the gesture compass itself. I leave the door open to get a little rain, that's why I leave the door open.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Yahoo
Clayton County deputies get into chase with moped, 2 people arrested
The Clayton County Sheriff's Office has two people in custody after a chase involving a moped. According to the Georgia State Patrol, deputies were pursuing a blue moped on Lake Mirror Road near Royal Drive. GSP said the sheriff's office patrol vehicle had all of its emergency lights on and sirens activated while trying to box the moped in. Eventually, the patrol car hit the moped from behind, causing the driver to lose control. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] TRENDING STORIES: City of Cumming identifies employee hit, killed by truck in parking lot Crews battle fire at troubled South Fulton condos for second time since December Georgia educators react to U.S. Department of Education cuts Then the two people on the moped tried to run away. 'After brief foot pursuit both occupants of the moped were taken into custody,' GSP said. When they caught them, the moped driver said his name was Calvin Smith, but no records were found for his name through state system searches. The woman with him on the moped also gave information that was unable to be verified. Both were taken into custody by deputies when an investigating state trooper arrived. GSP said the patrol vehicle was not damaged and the moped only took minor damage. Channel 2 Action News has reached out to the Clayton County Sheriff's Office for more information and is waiting for their response. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Yahoo
Clayton County deputies get into chase with moped, 2 people arrested
The Clayton County Sheriff's Office has two people in custody after a chase involving a moped. According to the Georgia State Patrol, deputies were pursuing a blue moped on Lake Mirror Road near Royal Drive. GSP said the sheriff's office patrol vehicle had all of its emergency lights on and sirens activated while trying to box the moped in. Eventually, the patrol car hit the moped from behind, causing the driver to lose control. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as news breaks] TRENDING STORIES: City of Cumming identifies employee hit, killed by truck in parking lot Crews battle fire at troubled South Fulton condos for second time since December Georgia educators react to U.S. Department of Education cuts Then the two people on the moped tried to run away. 'After brief foot pursuit both occupants of the moped were taken into custody,' GSP said. When they caught them, the moped driver said his name was Calvin Smith, but no records were found for his name through state system searches. The woman with him on the moped also gave information that was unable to be verified. Both were taken into custody by deputies when an investigating state trooper arrived. GSP said the patrol vehicle was not damaged and the moped only took minor damage. Channel 2 Action News has reached out to the Clayton County Sheriff's Office for more information and is waiting for their response. [SIGN UP: WSB-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter]
