Poetry and the Contemporary World
"I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me."
- Oct 12, 2020
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“Beyond Baroque” poems
"Creeley to Claudia once" said, You're a young diPrima, the one-eyed to the almond-eyed ____________ "Crows in Santa Monica" (thinking...
- Oct 12, 2020
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Responsorial of mine
"Che sola a me par donna" (Petrarch) _____________ The little I do out of ardent love for utterly little if I love! and see it merge with...
- Oct 12, 2020
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Wittgenstein’s lion (4)
in loving, says for as long as you're dear you're still something to die for. How? Always available, always there you veer into a...
- Oct 12, 2020
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Wittgenstein’s lion (5)
says, in a troubled mood, if I pass into flesh, as if, or for as long as you do run & stupidly look like two elands locked in fear,...
- Oct 12, 2020
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Wittgenstein’s lion (8)
says of the corporeity of love, if we see each other as two imperishable wholes and hide our twin thirsts, & it seems we do; and if it...
- Oct 12, 2020
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The cat man of Aleppo (2)
When they’re out of his fields, and the lone husky heart of the cat-saint takes one in , look on a bit & wait. The two or three others,...
- Oct 12, 2020
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The cat man of Aleppo (4)
The cat-saint says,” If I cannot follow him to the damp & dark from which he comes, cradled first in the needle bed and rocks-- then then...
- Oct 12, 2020
- 1 min
The cat man of Aleppo (5)
The cat-saint, reflecting on one in particular, finds time to say, “Rains can't wither tails any more nor a tabby's puff-cheeks, powdery...