The Eagle Has Landed

[Douglas Mercer]

Now the hedgerow
Is blanched for an hour with transitory blossom
Of snow, a bloom more sudden
Than that of summer, neither budding nor fading,
Not in the scheme of generation.
Where is the summer, the unimaginable
Zero summer?

[Douglas Mercer]

The word Wednesday has its origin in Old English and Germanic languages, where it comes from the term Wōdnesdæg, meaning Woden's day. It is a translation of the Latin term Mercuriī diēs, which means Mercury's day. In Romance languages, the name for Wednesday is derived from the Roman god Mercury. Wednesday (n.): fourth day of the week, Old English wodnesdæg Woden's day, a Germanic loan-translation of Latin dies Mercurii day of Mercury (compare Old Norse Oðinsdagr, Swedish Onsdag, Old Frisian Wonsdei, Middle Dutch Wudensdach). For Woden, see Odin. Contracted pronunciation is recorded from 15c. The Odin-based name is missing in German (mittwoch, from Old High German mittwocha, literally mid-week), probably by influence of Gothic, which seems to have adopted a pure ecclesiastical (i.e. non-astrological) week from Greek missionaries. The Gothic model also seems to be the source of Polish środa, Russian sreda Wednesday, literally middle. April 30 2024 falls on a Wednesday. In the English vernacular Wednesday is referred to as the hump day. 5:50 PM local time OK.

[Douglas Mercer]

[Douglas Mercer]

Oklahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the plain
When the wind comes right behind the rain.

[Douglas Mercer]