MARCH 2010 ‘Y ARIES (21 Mar - 20 Apr) The full moon on the 30th will be party-hearty time for all you Aries pirates and wenches. Be careful not to get too carried away, or you'll be walking the plank. TAURUS (21 Apr - 21 May) During the first week you will meet headwinds in any creative boat projects you attempt. Wait until the bad weather clears and seas are calm before you up anchor on any new ones. I. GEMINI (22 May - 21 Jun) Check your signal. A lack of creative communication could have negative effects on sailing business or finances during the first week. Propagation should improve in the third week. CANCER 66 (22 Jun - 23 Jul) Creative winds will be blowing for you. Chart a course that includes friends and family and enjoy a pleasant month of easy sails. Save some energy for a full moon party on the 30th. $2 LEO (24 Jul - 23 Aug) You're still feeling lackadaisical, but that will change on the 10th when a high tide of good humor will flood in — to your great relief. Now if only business would follow in its wake, things would be smooth sailing. lip VIRGO (24 Aug - 23 Sep) Creative self-expression will be ambiguous and argu- ments could ensue, making everyone on board cranky. Saying “Aye-aye, dear” might help. & LIBRA (24 Sep - 23 Oct) You might have a strong gust of business or financial activity during the first week. Take advantage of it quickly, as aspects indicate your tide of good humor could ebb after the 10th. Ti, SCORPIO (24 Oct - 22 Nov) Although boat-work energy is low, creativity and verbal skills are under full sail. Use this aspect to its best advan- tage to keep way on in creative endeavors. ¥~ SAGITTARIUS (23 Nov - 21 Dec) The aspects that benefit Scorpio will be a source of frus- tration for you. Any arrows you archers let fly this month will scatter aimlessly, so you might as well kick back on the cockpit cushions with a good book. 7 CAPRICORN (22 Dec - 20 Jan) Other than having a dearth of humor, this is a relatively aspect-free month. A spell in the doldrums during the third week will be the worst of it. xx AQUARIUS (21 Jan - 19 Feb) Though your work energy is low you should do your best to slog through your current boat projects, as new oppor- tunities will soon present themselves. =& PISCES (20 Feb - 20 Mar) You will be full of creative energy and communicative efforts will flow freely and productively, especially around the 25th when inspiration should bring new cruising ideas and opportunities. Crossword Solution ACROSS TRUCK 2) GASOLINE 50) WATER 20) SALT. 6) COCO 53) TORCH 21) BOREALIS 9) ALPHA 55) RID 22) DROOP 11) AURORA 56) FIR 25) AH 12) ELMO 57) MEN 26) FIRE 14) SHUT 58) HOT 27) SET. 18) CLOUT 59) ARK 29) FLARE 19) ONE 60) SEE 31) EMAIL 20) SKIDS. 61) BLOW 33) HEARTH 21) BUCKETS 62) ESCAPE 34) MEMBER 22) DOOR 63) LOG 35) SAIL 23) OR 64) AX 37) BIN 24) EARP 65) SHIP 38 26) FLAMES DOWN 40) LOOK IN 28) RN 1) FAT 41) CLEW 30) HOSE 2) GALLEY 47) SCREEN 32) IT 3) SPOUSE 48) WOR! 34) MAST. 4) LBS 51) ARROWS 36) ABLAZE 5) EATER 52) LIT 39) PLACE 6) COOK 53) TIRES 42) LIAR T 54) CHEAT 43) OIL. 8) CANDLE 56) FA 44) AMBIT 10) HECK 57) ME 45) IN 13) MOT 58) HELP 46) EAR 15) HOOPS 60) SE. 47) SOLE 16) UNO 61) BOX Earthquake, Haiti: The Third Day /s/ “In Haiti, all the important things are beautiful; only reality needs a bit of improvement.” —Herbert Gold, The Best Nightmare on Earth (1991) What can a poet do for Haiti now and an older poet at that, unable to walk as he once did up the mountain to the Citadel in the clouds above Cap Haitien fortress against an invasion that never came what can a poet do as the window shuts nota ee in Doctors without Borders not a soldier in the 82nd Airborne not a helicopter pilot nor back-hoe operator not a secretary of state nor even a TV commentator ok As the window shuts & relief planes stack up in the Trade Wind sky unable to land on the single clogged runway see the rubble, in this Age of Rubble the makeshift tents & clinics in the debris people living in the streets alongside the dying & dead masked relief workers ghosting among them in this capital of the displaced see the Hotel Montana, chandeliered & broad verandaed, now collapsed into a crumble of irony a prison for the trapped, morgue of the dead watch the looting begin, the rioting, the disease spread as survivors drift without shelter undernourished, overwhelmed hear the iron bed frames & springs clanging the rotor-wash, the odd siren, the fy the rumors, the voices in the rubble moaning the cries Au Secours! Secours! & the drums gone quiet smell the charcoal, the coal pots simmering also the rubber burning, the flesh decaying the excrement overbounding, and over it all, cast in the Trade Wind the haze of cement dust, of ash feel the pain of loved ones lost how the loss feels like rebar broken clean or twisted, bent at crazy angles the steel inside the rust shinin clean & cruel, at the ele As the window shuts & aftershocks, in dreadful reprise, shake sunrise | send this poem to the people whose country lies over a fault line of the earth’s plates to the weak, the dazed, the dehydrated the crushed, the maimed & mangled, the suffocated to the unaccounted for parlumps marooned Edward Teach became a ruthless pirate only after he was fired from Brookwood Elementary. xu 3 D 2 c = 5 o ® fr 3S |e 2 Q S = Rd Sts “It isa poverty issue, not a natural disaster issue,” says David Brooks on NPR, noting that fifteen years ago, near San Francisco, a similar earthquake struck, killing only sixty-three. * Poverty and education, | ey: no one in Haiti knows anything about building code Most in the black peasant class are illiterate, kept from the classroom by the mulatto élite, a mercantile-military alliance corrupt & long supported by First-World governments ... and that is an issue NOT of the rebellion in 1791 and some resulting “curse” as imagined wishfully by the likes of a right-wing backward evangelical demagogue, but of racism worldwide & internal an issue of Power & the illiteracy that kept it, keeps it. As the window, open for but seventy-two hours, shuts on Port-au-Prince | send this poem to the Haitian people this poem now that the transport of drumming resumes in the tonnelles of the possessed & we behold life behind the veil see in the cloud-shrouded Citadel a defense for culture here: the imaginary world presided over by Papa Legba, Damballa, Erzulie Ogoun Ferraille, goun Agoué & Baron Samedi in his bowler hat all of whom — spirits in the Voodoo pantheon — guided Toussaint l’Ouverture, his generals & troops in the march that led to Independence & who are revealed in the paintings of Hector Hyppolite & others of the renaissance in “his buried heirloom of atavistic wealth” a culture independent of & beyond earthquake & hurricane slavery, dictatorship, occupation beyond poverty & illiteracy & the absence or misuse of natural resources the goodwill even, all the good intentions | send this poem to reunite the living with the dead — Richard Dey (15 January 2010) bela-toon A ig "eo VOW" Yad “You dang criver! Ver trespassin'! Git out o “here!”