I am participating in a TypePad Beta, and the latest glitch is that Watermark mostly won't come up at http://www.sbpoet.com; instead, what comes up is a long- napping photo weblog. You can get to individual posts, if you have the URL, but the main page is stubborn and misbehaving even when it does come up. This makes posting difficult.

Also, Spike is in hospital. We think he'll be OK; it seems to be a combination of bad teeth and severe constipation. This is the first time in fifteen years — since he was kitten off to be neutered — that my house has not had Spike in it.

So — here is yesterday's poem, and you may not see another for a few days.