Sunday, 31 August 2025

Overview

 


Image: Winter leaflets no. 23, detail (2021)

 “ai overview prose poem”

 good morning

can be something you wish for others, or it can be an inquiry into the status of the other person. Some good morning synonyms are appropriate to use only in certain settings. Top of the morning to you. Top of the morning is an incredibly old-fashioned and formal way to say good morning. Rise and shine. Wakey, wakey. Happy morning to you. What a glorious morning. Buenos días. It is a 1959 film by Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu. Two young siblings take a pledge of silence in an effort to persuade their parents into buying them a television.

 

good afternoon

is a polite and somewhat formal greeting used to acknowledge someone after midday, typically between 12:00 p.m. and sunset. It can be used to say hello in various situations. You can respond by saying ‘Good afternoon to you as well’ to maintain a positive and friendly tone, according to Quora. American people seldom say good afternoon. Instead, they simply say hi or hello.

 

good evening

is a conventional English greeting used to acknowledge someone in the late afternoon or evening, functioning like good morning but for a later time of day. It can be used as a polite farewell or parting phrase, especially in combination with have a good evening. The phrase was first recorded in the mid-1500s. You can use it when meeting someone for a late business meeting, starting an evening class, or greeting a host at a dinner party. It is generally considered quite formal, such as by a television news anchor or at the beginning of an address to an audience. It is also a 1989 album by Marshall Crenshaw. Although critically well-received, it failed to chart. The album was his last for Warner Bros Records and, due to his soured relationship with the label, he chose to fill the album with covers.

 

good night

said when people leave each other in the evening or before going to bed or to sleep. Instead of good night, you can say sweet dreams, sleep well, rest easy, nighty night, sleep tight, have a good sleep, until tomorrow, see you in the morning. Other options include more affectionate phrases like dream of me, or colloquial ones such as time to hit the hay. Both good night and goodnight appear to be acceptable spellings, though some people might disagree. In American literature good night has pretty much always been at least twice as common as goodnight; in British literature it's similar, but goodnight has been catching up in recent decades. It is a 2023 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film produced by Million Dollar Studios and MRP Entertainment. It is the directorial debut of Vinayak Chandrasekaran and debut of K. Manikandan as a lead actor. The story follows an IT youngster who has a snoring problem, which affects his life.

Saturday, 30 August 2025

Spoken



Image: the 2022 version of the façade of the art room

 at Fitzroy Community School, Brunswick Street, North Fitzroy

 

good morning

more like a courtesy call

than hello, form of recognition

borne of habit, enough of a sound

to register our existences are real

woken to the instant

 

good afternoon

with its air of a manifesto

unfinished business that must finish

hours of unspoken implications

with us the half-witting witnesses

of this particular afternoon

looking as though we’re in charge

when we’re just along for the ride

 

good evening

is intoned like the tone of its day

whoops for our apparent victory

conjectural, with its ups and downs

commiserations on our disaster

the moment is a giveaway

sip a nightcap, or wear one

and move on to other things

 

good night

the semblance of an ode

in the making, formalising

in brief a temporary finality

a salutation to time gone now,

with the unknown ahead

not so much beckoning

as assuming we will be assumed

each one of us

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, 29 August 2025

Grey

 


Image: ‘Storm 4’ (Winter 2021)

 

good morning

when the elements resound

keeping day grey an hour more

a resounding success

gleaming bark

soaking earth

the most important job of all

 

good afternoon

above the rooflines and hills

fringes grey fall from black for miles

obscurely present

most important

till highways are haze

and hillsides indistinct

 

good evening

that brings grey tidings

of great import

oceans contribute

lakes rise to the occasion

the only stopping

is ground zero

the million million leaves above

 

good night

to streetlights and grey windows

curtains drawn on falling temperatures

sometime in late august

or early september

and kind talk in warm rooms

around the soup and crusts