Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readThe muse of Kilally Meadows (5)Like they'd done before, the maples will throw their darkness at him Sad with all those thoughts, and looking sort of thin, he twists...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readMorning prayers"I don't want to be who you are! I want to be myself, someone playing with language" (Robert Bly) ________ You say, 'Blot out the leaves...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readTrack and Field(I reflect back on things that always used to distract me from my Track and Field duties like neighbouring forests, birds & escarpments)...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readDream"The real conflict is not between Christianity and 'nature', but between Christian principles and other principles in the control of...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readNatural Medicine (for Penn)She came at my request, at last. And in reply to my, "What can it be?" said sagely, taking a close look around— "Look, it's as if...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readDecember birdI 'd have to sit with you, too, splayed into light, taken along and receive teaching (as I know you do) from the rugose tree and throw...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readAdvice for ‘Teuta the Queen’You can frogmarch young Romans tired of drill and sick of ensilage (as the young & lazy are), too lingual for their own good; or fly on...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readWho is she?With an elongate rather wet smile, she just likes to look! But she's a lady who creeps through the clouds,in her strapless and shawl and...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20202 min readSophia(inspired by my reading of the Nag Hammadi) "Follow the clue patiently and you will understand nothing" (Basil Bunting) ------ Seth...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readKateri(for Steve Catlin, my brother, who left a copy of this at her grave in Kahnawake, Quebec.) (1): “flight” Dear umbrous squat Kateri...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readA Translation of Catullus 51 (Lesbia)Catullus Ille mi par esse deo videtur, ille, si fas est, superare divos qui sedens adversus identidem te spectat et audit dulce ridentem,...
Conrad DiDiodatoOct 10, 20201 min readConsolatio"You were always right, and your holiest inspiration/is Death" (Rilke) --------- (for Danny Frederick) Even with all the sighing and...