Thursday, January 03, 2008

plainstanes chackert
wi snaw an snawmelt -
a haud tae the bleck




pavements chequered
with snow and snowmelt -
I keep to the black

5 comments:

  1. A black bishop moving from f8 to b4? That was Kasparov's (blacks) move # 12. 30.1.1985. Karpov replies Ke1-e2, and Kasparov attacking Bishop c8-g4, (chess!) Twenty moves later Karpov (whites) resigns.

    ;-)

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  2. a sensible thing to do, i reckon :)
    (i hate slush)

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  3. Interesting...our pavement (sidewalk), which is most often concrete, is white/gray.

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  4. Black and white, which one to choose...? The basic lesson?

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  5. I saw this at winter haiku and its stuck with me since. As others have said, I pictured you carefully making your way across a frozen chessboard.

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