RUNNING
I ran
through dreams
made of
palmetto fronds.
I should’ve
known better,
but I
forgot who I was
for a millisecond
in the
scheme.
I couldn’t
help myself.
I escaped
scorpion cacti,
coral
snakes, rusted dragonflies,
& jaundiced
lightning carving
Nazca scars
along the spines
of liquorice
skinks.
So, I ran
& kept on running,
until one
day, hunkered below
an orange
geometric patterned
IHOP
multi-syrup booth,
I glad
handed a miracle
cure
pitchman.
Not my
finest moment.
I ran
through dreams
made of
palmetto fronds.
I should’ve
known better,
but I
forgot who I was
for a
millisecond
in the
scheme.
I couldn’t
help myself,
so I kept
on running.
Lizard Geoglyph, Nazca, Peru -- Karol Kozlowski
Jerry Lapin, Al Lapin, and Albert Kallis opened International House of Pancakes in 1958 in Burbank, California. The company franchises nearly 2,000 restaurants around the world. In 1973, for marketing purposes, the chain's name was shortened to "IHOP," and since then the full name and acronym have been officially interchangeable.
ReplyDeleteNazca was an agrarian culture that flourished from ca. 100 BCE to 800 in the river valleys of the Rio Grande de Nazca along the arid southern coast of Peru. It is best known for the large geoglyphs formed by depressions or shallow incisions made in the desert soil, in an area about 400 km (250 mi) south of Lima. The main concentration is in a 10 X 4 km (6 X 2 mi) rectangle south of San Miguel de la Pascana. The lines are typically 10 to 15 cm (4 to 6 in) deep; widths vary considerably (up to 6 ft), but over 1/2 of them are about 1/3 m (1 ft) wide. They were made by removing the top layer of reddish-brown iron oxide-coated pebbles to expose the yellow-grey clay subsoil. This sublayer contains high amounts of lime, which hardened to form a protective layer that shields the lines from winds and prevents erosion. The combined length of all the lines is over 1,300 km (808 mi), and the group covers an area of about 50 sq km (19 sq mi). The largest figures span nearly 370 m (1,200 ft). Most lines run straight across the landscape, but there are also geometric shapes, and more than 70 are zoomorphic shapes of animals (condor [134 m, 440 ft long], hummingbird and monkey [each 93 m, 305 ft], spider [47 m, 154 ft], fish, llama, jaguar, lizard, dog, human, and various birds), trees and flowers.