tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64702126565647529052024-03-14T02:21:17.871-04:00FiresteelNauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-43801838729355276962017-04-23T10:25:00.000-04:002017-04-23T10:38:44.985-04:00The Problem with Sappho<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
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Charles Rafferty</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>The
Problem with Sappho</i></span></span></div>
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one complete poem remains. The rest of it is berries left in the</span></span></div>
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after a visit from midday starlings. For years I couldn't</span></span></div>
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how this redaction moved anyone to tears. She was a</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">dampness
in the matchbook. But the world is patient. Eventually the </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">diamond
travels from the mantle to the finger of the woman you love.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Eventually
the light from an exploded star arrives to confirm the </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">emperor's
power. It's clear now that a very old bruise can tell us how </span></span>
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someone was punched. The detective solves a murder with the </span></span><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">help
of a single hair. Archaeologists find a molar and build a face to
fit.</span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-73220906080796824212017-01-29T03:30:00.000-05:002017-01-29T03:30:09.071-05:00Desperate for normalcy they made everything normal<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"> by
Danny Bryck</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">"I
know, I know<br />
If you could go back you<br />
would walk with
Jesus<br />
You would march with King<br />
Maybe assassinate Hitler<br />
At
least hide Jews in your basement<br />
It would all be clear to
you<br />
But people then, just like you<br />
were baffled, had
bills<br />
to pay and children they didn’t<br />
understand and they
too<br />
were so desperate for normalcy<br />
they made anything
normal<br />
Even turning everything inside out<br />
Even killing, and
killing, and it’s easy<br />
for turning the other cheek<br />
to be
looking the other way, for walking<br />
to be talking, and they
hid<br />
in their houses<br />
and watched it on television, when they
had television,<br />
and wrung their hands<br />
or didn’t, and your
hands<br />
are just like theirs. Lined, permeable,<br />
small, and
you<br />
would follow Caesar, and quote McCarthy, and Hoover, and you
would want<br />
to make Germany great again<br />
Because you are
afraid, and your<br />
parents are sick, and your<br />
job pays shit
and where’s your<br />
dignity? Just a little dignity and those kids
sitting down in the highway,<br />
and chaining themselves
to<br />
buildings, what’s their fucking problem? And that
kid<br />
That’s King. And this is Selma. And Berlin. And Jerusalem.
And now<br />
is when they need you to be brave.<br />
Now<br />
is when
we need you to go back<br />
and forget everything you know<br />
and
give up the things you’re chained to<br />
and make it look so easy
in your<br />
grandkids’ history books (they should still have them,
kinehora)<br />
Now<br />
is when it will all be clear to them."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Thanks
to MJ on Facebook</span></span></div>
Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-19214473046176064122017-01-22T03:30:00.000-05:002017-01-22T03:30:05.183-05:00The man in the iron mask<div style="margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
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Heather McHugh</span><b><br />
<br />
What He Thought </b><br />
<i>for
Fabbio Doplicher</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We
were supposed to do a job in Italy<br />
and, full of our
feeling for<br />
ourselves (our sense of being<br />
Poets
from America) we went<br />
from Rome to Fano, met<br />
the
mayor, mulled<br />
a couple matters over (what's<br />
a
cheap date, they asked us; what's<br />
flat drink). Among
Italian literati<br />
<br />
we could recognize our counterparts:<br />
the
academic, the apologist,<br />
the arrogant, the amorous,<br />
the
brazen and the glib—and there was one<br />
<br />
administrator (the
conservative), in suit<br />
of regulation gray, who like a good
tour guide<br />
with measured pace and uninflected tone
narrated<br />
sights and histories the hired van hauled us
past.<br />
Of all, he was the most politic and least
poetic,<br />
so it seemed. Our last few days in Rome<br />
(when
all but three of the New World Bards had flown)<br />
I found a
book of poems this<br />
unprepossessing one had written: it was
there<br />
in the pensione room (a room he'd
recommended)<br />
where it must have been abandoned by<br />
the
German visitor (was there a bus of them?)<br />
to whom he had
inscribed and dated it a month before.<br />
I couldn't read
Italian, either, so I put the book<br />
back into the
wardrobe's dark. We last Americans<br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">were
due to leave tomorrow. For our parting evening then<br />
our
host chose something in a family restaurant, and there<br />
we
sat and chatted, sat and chewed,<br />
till, sensible it was our
last<br />
big chance to be poetic, make<br />
our mark,
one of us asked<br />
"What's poetry?"<br />
Is
it the fruits and vegetables and<br />
marketplace of Campo dei
Fiori, or<br />
the statue there?" Because I was<br />
<br />
the
glib one, I identified the answer<br />
instantly, I didn't have
to think—"The truth<br />
is both, it's both," I
blurted out. But that<br />
was easy. That was easiest to say.
What followed<br />
taught me something about difficulty,<br />
for
our underestimated host spoke out,<br />
all of a sudden, with a
rising passion, and he said:<br />
<br />
The statue represents
Giordano Bruno,<br />
brought to be burned in the public
square<br />
because of his offense against<br />
authority,
which is to say<br />
the Church. His crime was his belief<br />
the
universe does not revolve around<br />
the human being: God is
no<br />
fixed point or central government, but rather
is<br />
poured in waves through all things. All things<br />
move.
"If God is not the soul itself, He is<br />
the soul of the
soul of the world." Such was<br />
his heresy. The day they
brought him<br />
forth to die, they feared he might<br />
incite
the crowd (the man was famous<br />
for his eloquence). And so
his captors<br />
placed upon his face<br />
an iron mask,
in which<br />
<br />
he could not speak. That's<br />
how they
burned him. That is how<br />
he died: without a word, in
front<br />
of everyone.<br />
And poetry—<br />
(we'd
all<br />
put down our forks by now, to listen to<br />
the
man in gray; he went on<br />
softly)—<br />
poetry is
what<br />
<br />
he thought, but did not say.</span></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-9972594656506889672016-12-25T03:30:00.000-05:002016-12-25T03:30:05.085-05:00I, Joseph, was walking, and not walking<div style="background-color: white; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">And I, Joseph, was walking, and not walking, and I looked up<br />into the heavens and I saw the vault of the heavens standing still,<br />and the birds of the heavens trembling,<br />and I looked down on the earth and I saw a dish<br />lying on the ground and workmen reclining,<br />and their hands were in the dish,<br />and those raising their hands were not raising them,<br />and those who were bringing food to their mouths were not eating,<br />but all of their faces were looking up,<br />and I saw sheep being driven and the sheep standing still,<br />and the driver's hand raised up as if to strike them,<br />and I looked up to the winter stream and saw the young goats<br />and their mouths were touching the water and they drank not,<br />and everything was astonished.</span></div>
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᾿Ἐγὼ δὲ ᾿Ιωσὴφ περιεπάτουν καὶ οὐ περιεπάτουν καὶ ἀνέβλεψα<br />
εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ εἶδον τὸν πόλον τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἑστῶτα καὶ τὰ πετεινὰ<br />
τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τρὲμοντα καὶ ἐνέβλεψα ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ εἶδον σκάφην<br />
κειμένην καὶ ἐργάτας ἀνακειμένους καὶ ἦσαν αἱ χεῖρες αὐτῶν ἐν τῆ<br />
σκάφη καὶ οἱ αἴροντες οὐκ ἀνέφερον<br />
καὶ οἱ προσφὲροντες εἰς τὸ στόμα οὐ προσὲφερον ἀλλὰ πἀντων αὐτῶν<br />
ἦν τὰ πρόσωπα ἄνο βλέποντα καὶ εἶδον πρόβατα ἐλαυνόμενα καὶ τὰ<br />
πρόβατα εἱστήκει ἐπῆρεν δὲ ὁ ποιμὴν τοῦ πατάξαι αὐτά καὶ ἡ<br />
χεὶρ αὐτοῦ ἔστη ἄνω καὶ ἀνάβλεψα ἐπὶ τὸν χείμαρρον καὶ εἱδον ἐρίφους<br />
καὶ τὰ στόματα αὐτῶν ἐπικείμενα τῶ ὕδατι καὶ μὴ πίνοντα<br />
καὶ πάντα ὑπὸ ἔκπληξιν ὄντα. </div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> by
Louis MacNeice</span></span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Meeting
Point</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Time
was away and somewhere else,<br />
There were two glasses and two
chairs<br />
And two people with the one pulse<br />
(Somebody stopped
the moving stairs):<br />
Time was away and somewhere else,<br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And
they were neither up nor down;<br />
The stream’s music did not
stop,<br />
Flowing through heather, limpid brown,<br />
Although they
sat in a coffee shop<br />
And they were neither up nor down…<br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
bell was silent in the air<br />
Holding its inverted poise –<br />
Between
the clang and clang a flower,<br />
A brazen calyx of no noise:<br />
The
bell was silent in the air.<br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
camels crossed the miles of sand<br />
That stretched around the cups
and plates;<br />
The desert was their own, they planned<br />
To
portion out the stars and dates:<br />
The camels crossed the miles of
sand.<br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Time
was away and somewhere else.<br />
The waiter did not come, the
clock<br />
Forgot them and the radio waltz<br />
Came out like water
from a rock:<br />
Time was away and somewhere else.<br />
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her
fingers flicked away the ash<br />
That bloomed again in tropic
trees:<br />
Not caring if the markets crash<br />
When they had
forests such as these,<br />
Her fingers flicked away the ash.<br />
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">God
or whatever means the Good<br />
Be praised that time can stop like
this,<br />
That what the heart has understood<br />
Can verify in the
body’s peace<br />
God or whatever means the Good.<br />
</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #333333;">Time
was away and she was here<br />
And life no longer what it was,<br />
The
bell was silent in the air<br />
And all the room a glow because<br />
Time
was away and she was here.<br />
</span></span></span><br />
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-16014037642349257702016-11-20T14:29:00.000-05:002016-11-23T16:49:05.029-05:00Bless our crummy little hearts<div class="tab-content active" id="poem-top" style="background-color: white;">
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> by
Richard Newman</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bless
Their Hearts</i></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;">At
Steak ‘n Shake I learned that if you add<br />
“Bless their
hearts” after their names, you can say</span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br />
whatever
you want about them and it’s OK.<br />
M</span></span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">y
son, bless his heart, is an idiot,<br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">she
said. </span></span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He
rents storage space for his kids’<br />
toys—they’re only one
and three years old!<br />
</span></span></span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I
said, </span></span></span></span><em><span style="font-variant: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">my
father, bless his heart, has turned<br />
into a sentimental old fool.
He gets<br />
weepy when he hears my daughter’s greeting<br />
on our
voice mail. </span></span></span></span></span></span></em><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Before
our Steakburgers came<br />
someone else blessed her office mate’s
heart,<br />
then, as an afterthought, the jealous hearts<br />
of the
entire anthropology department.<br />
We bestowed blessings on many a
heart<br />
that day. I even blessed my ex-wife’s heart.<br />
Our
waiter, bless his heart, would not be getting<br />
much tip, for
which, no doubt, he’d bless our hearts.<br />
In a week it would be
Thanksgiving,<br />
and we would each sit with our
respective<br />
families, counting our blessings and blessing<br />
the
hearts of family members as only family<br />
does best. Oh, bless us
all, yes, bless us, please<br />
bless us and bless our crummy little
hearts.</span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Richard
Newman, </span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><i>Domestic
Fugues</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><i>,
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">2009. </span></span></span>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-70451129268061385662016-11-13T17:37:00.001-05:002016-11-13T17:37:09.324-05:00The crack in the tea-cup<pre class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"> by W. H. Auden</span></span></pre>
<pre class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><i>As I walked out one evening</i></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">As I walked out one evening,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Walking down Bristol Street,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">The crowds upon the pavement</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Were fields of harvest wheat.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And down by the brimming river</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">I heard a lover sing</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Under an arch of the railway:</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> ‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Love has no ending.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Till China and Africa meet,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And the river jumps over the mountain</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And the salmon sing in the street,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">I’ll love you till the ocean</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Is folded and hung up to dry</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And the seven stars go squawking</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Like geese about the sky.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">The years shall run like rabbits,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">For in my arms I hold</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">The Flower of the Ages,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And the first love of the world.'</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">But all the clocks in the city</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Began to whirr and chime:</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">O let not Time deceive you,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">You cannot conquer Time.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">In the burrows of the Nightmare</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Where Justice naked is,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Time watches from the shadow</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And coughs when you would kiss.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">In headaches and in worry</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Vaguely life leaks away,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And Time will have his fancy</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">To-morrow or to-day.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Into many a green valley</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Drifts the appalling snow;</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Time breaks the threaded dances</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And the diver’s brilliant bow.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">O plunge your hands in water,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Plunge them in up to the wrist;</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Stare, stare in the basin</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And wonder what you’ve missed.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">The glacier knocks in the cupboard,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">The desert sighs in the bed,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And the crack in the tea-cup opens</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">A lane to the land of the dead.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Where the beggars raffle the banknotes</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And the Giant is enchanting to Jack,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And the Lily-white Boy is a Roarer,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And Jill goes down on her back.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">O look, look in the mirror,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">O look in your distress:</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Life remains a blessing</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Although you cannot bless.</span></span>
<span style="color: black;">‘<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">O stand, stand at the window</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">As the tears scald and start;</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">You shall love your crooked neighbour</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">With your crooked heart.'</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">It was late, late in the evening,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">The lovers they were gone;</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">The clocks had ceased their chiming,</span></span>
<span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And the deep river ran on. </span></span></pre>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-29566428636759554052016-11-06T03:30:00.000-05:002016-11-06T03:30:00.145-05:00Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor<h4 class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> by
Marilynne Robinson</span></span></span></h4>
<div>
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.16in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">Every
four years Americans give themselves information about who they are
and where they are on a spectrum of tradition and aspiration that
normally frames our politics. The documents that have mattered to us
have given us a set of ideals against which actual institutions and
practices can be measured, and an abstract and deliberate language
for encountering the issues that arise among people, which can, and
often do, devolve into visceral and intractable conflict. The origins
of these electoral arrangements are to be found in our history. They
have been sustained over many generations by an agreed deference to
custom and law.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">This
is to say that they are fragile, and that they are, in a sense,
arbitrary. As resilient as they have proved to be through the trials
of centuries, when their value and authority are not generally
granted they can be overturned and dismissed, suddenly and almost
casually. Let the idea take hold that elections are rigged, and
popular government begins to seem no more than an illusionary empty
exercise. Discredit the press, and the First Amendment is only a
license to bloviate and slander. In other words, the viability of our
system depends on a certain care, a restraint that avoids unjustified
attacks and unfounded accusations against the system itself, and that
demands integrity of those who hold positions of authority. If the
generations that succeed us have a free press and elected
governments, they will have the means to address our failures and
their own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">NYRB
10/25/2016</span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-87578790698472630722016-10-30T03:30:00.000-04:002016-10-30T03:30:08.006-04:00And the daughters of darkness flame like Fawkes fires still<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">by
Dylan Thomas</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b>In
the White Giant’s Thigh</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Through
throats where many rivers meet, the curlews cry,<br />
Under the
conceiving moon, on the high chalk hill,<br />
And there this night I
walk in the white giant’s thigh<br />
Where barren as boulders women
lie longing still</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">To
labour and love though they lay down long ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Through
throats where many rivers meet, the women pray,<br />
Pleading in the
waded bay for the seed to flow<br />
Though the names on their weed
grown stones are rained away,</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And
alone in the night’s eternal, curving act<br />
They yearn with
tongues of curlews for the unconceived<br />
And immemorial sons of
the cudgelling, hacked</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Hill.
Who once in gooseskin winter loved all ice leaved<br />
In the
courters’ lanes, or twined in the ox roasting sun<br />
In the wains
tonned so high that the wisps of the hay<br />
Clung to the pitching
clouds, or gay with anyone<br />
Young as they in the after milking
moonlight lay</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Under
the lighted shapes of faith and their moonshade<br />
Petticoats galed
high, or shy with the rough riding boys,<br />
Now clasp me to their
grains in the gigantic glade,</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Who
once, green countries since, were a hedgerow of joys.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Time
by, their dust was flesh the swineherd rooted sly,<br />
Flared in the
reek of the wiving sty with the rush<br />
Light of his thighs,
spreadeagle to the dunghill sky,<br />
Or with their orchard man in
the core of the sun’s bush<br />
Rough as cows’ tongues and
thrashed with brambles their buttermilk<br />
Manes, under his
quenchless summer barbed gold to the bone,</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Or
rippling soft in the spinney moon as the silk<br />
And ducked and
draked white lake that harps to a hail stone.</span></span></div>
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</div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Who
once were a bloom of wayside brides in the hawed house<br />
And heard
the lewd, wooed field flow to the coming frost,<br />
The scurrying,
furred small friars squeal, in the dowse<br />
Of day, in the thistle
aisles, till the white owl crossed</span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Their
breast, the vaulting does roister, the horned bucks climb<br />
Quick
in the wood at love, where a torch of foxes foams,<br />
All birds and
beasts of the linked night uproar and chime</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And
the mole snout blunt under his pilgrimage of domes,<br />
Or, butter
fat goosegirls, bounced in a gambo bed,<br />
Their breasts full of
honey, under their gander king<br />
Trounced by his wings in the
hissing shippen, long dead<br />
And gone that barley dark where their
clogs danced in the spring,<br />
And their firefly hairpins flew, and
the ricks ran round –</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">(But
nothing bore, no mouthing babe to the veined hives<br />
Hugged, and
barren and bare on Mother Goose’s ground<br />
They with the simple
Jacks were a boulder of wives) –</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Now
curlew cry me down to kiss the mouths of their dust.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">The
dust of their kettles and clocks swings to and fro<br />
Where the hay
rides now or the bracken kitchens rust<br />
As the arc of the
billhooks that flashed the hedges low<br />
And cut the birds’
boughs that the minstrel sap ran red.<br />
They from houses where the
harvest bows, hold me hard,<br />
Who heard the tall bell sail down
the Sundays of the dead<br />
And the rain wring out its tongues on
the faded yard,<br />
Teach me the love that is evergreen after the
fall leaved<br />
Grave, after Beloved on the grass gulfed cross is
scrubbed<br />
Off by the sun and Daughters no longer grieved<br />
Save
by their long desires in the fox cubbed<br />
Streets or hungering in
the crumbled wood: to these<br />
Hale dead and deathless do the women
of the hill<br />
Love for ever meridian through the courters’ trees</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And
the daughters of darkness flame like Fawkes fires still.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-11082153959315539642016-10-23T14:45:00.000-04:002016-10-23T14:45:04.851-04:00The white mouth of the snowcloud<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Paul Kingsnorth</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>VODADAHUE
MOUNTAIN</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When
I feel tall I tell myself<br />
that when the time comes I will
know<br />
as the elephant knows as the puma knows<br />
and I will
go<br />
to Vodadahue Mountain<br />
by the deep green inlet<br />
by
the deep green gorge<br />
and in steady pain I will climb the basalt
tower<br />
and on the last ice step before the summit<br />
unmarked
by everything but air<br />
I will be still for a long moment<br />
and
then let the white mouth of the snowcloud eat me<br />
and there will
be only this silence<br />
and the trees at the foot will begin to
feed<br />
and I will have paid back all that I have owed<br />
and
there will be only this silence.</span></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-70867282893485125932016-10-18T14:58:00.001-04:002016-10-18T14:59:30.197-04:00The great hunger<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"> by
Sheenah Pugh</span></span></div>
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<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b>Chocolate
from the Famine Museum</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><i>Strokestown,
Co Roscommon</i></span></span></blockquote>
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<br />
</blockquote>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Reading
numbers on a wall,<br />
so many thousand evicted,<br />
exiled,
starved,</span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">soon
palls. The boys are looking<br />
for buttons to press,<br />
and Sir’s
at a loss</span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">how
to bring it alive. He tries<br />
to give them the reek<br />
of peat
smoke and lamp oil</span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">in
a cramped turf cabin,<br />
wishing there was a replica<br />
they
could crowd into.</span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">At
every turn, language<br />
fails him. Starving<br />
means wanting
dinner,</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">not
boiling boot-leather<br />
till you can chew it,<br />
hoping it stays
down.</span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">They
sailed to America,<br />
</span></i><span style="color: black;">he laments, to lads<br />
who’ve flown
there</span></span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">on
holiday, who make nothing<br />
of oceans. They fidget<br />
through
the video,</span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">dying
for their reward:<br />
the gift shop.<br />
Their faces light up,</span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">for
the first time, at sheep<br />
in green hats, penny whistles,<br />
toy
blackthorn sticks,</span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">and
the chocolate. Praline,<br />
ganache, mint, mocha, truffle,<br />
they’re
spoiled for choice,</span></span></div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">their
day flavoured<br />
for ever with the velvet<br />
dark in their
mouths.</span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From
the <i>Times Literary Supplement</i>, October 18, 2016.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-3994428291970200292016-09-25T03:30:00.000-04:002016-09-26T13:02:55.220-04:00I keep looking for what has always been mine<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"> by
W. S. Merwin</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><i>Variations
to the Accompaniment of a Cloud</i></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><i> Because
I do not hope ever again</i></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><i>to
pass this way</i> I sing these</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">notes
now in silence</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">each
in its own time</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">one
morning near the end of spring</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">among
the invisible unheard stars I sing</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">this
one time with the hope that is here</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">in
every breath </span>
</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">may
these notes be heard another morning</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">in
another life</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">in
another spring together</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><i> Because
I do not hope ever to pass</i></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><i>this
way again</i></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">one
morning late in spring</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">in
the cold rain above the valley I sing<br />
in the old house I came to
in my youth<br />
on the ridge looking over the river<br />
a house
that had been left to its own silence<br />
for half a century<br />
home
for bats and swallows and patches<br />
of sunlight wandering across
the floors<br />
under holes in the roof on the day <br />
I first saw
it<br />
and recognized it without knowing it<br />
above the same
river<br />
<br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><i> Because
I do not hope to see again</i><br />
this spring morning with its
cloud of light<br />
that wakes the blackbird in the trees
downhill<br />
from the house I came to long ago<br />
when I was young
and the silence<br />
was a summer day<br />
that first summer that I
would see<br />
from these windows<br />
I came to see<br />
the plum
trees flowering on the slope below<br />
the snow swirling outside the
kitchen<br />
I will not see this morning fill<br />
with light again
along the green field<br />
under the walnut trees those silent
ancients<br />
I reach out to it with words<br />
it never
hears<br />
<br />
<i> Because I do not hope ever to find<br />
my way
again </i>to the moments of pure <br />
single fortune and the
unrepeated mistakes<br />
that led me here<br />
I look back in
wonder<br />
at how I found you and we came to be here<br />
where has
it gone<br />
never was there one step backward<br />
<br />
<i> Although
I do not hope to know again</i><br />
what I have known since the
beginning<br />
not for a moment has it left me<br />
I keep looking
for what has always been mine<br />
searching for it even as I</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">think
of leaving it<br />
my love was always<br />
woven with leaving<br />
moment
by moment leaving<br />
the one time<br />
</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From
W. S. Merwin, <i>Garden Time</i>, 2016.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-10093595336973187932016-08-25T14:08:00.000-04:002016-08-25T14:08:45.087-04:00Voices full as goblets<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> by
Anne Sexton</span></span></span></strong></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br />
<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Faustus
</span></b></span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b>a</b></span></span></strong><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b>nd
I</b></span></span></strong></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span></strong></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">I
went to the opera and God was not there.<br />
I was, at the time, in
my apprenticeship.<br />
The voices were as full as goblets; in
mid-air<br />
I caught them and threw them back. A form of worship.<br />
In
those vacant moments when our Lord sleeps<br />
I have the voices. A
cry that is mine for keeps.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">I
went to the galleries and God was not there,<br />
only Mother Roulin
and her baby, an old man infant,<br />
his face lined in black and
with a strange stare<br />
in his black, black eyes. They seemed to
hunt<br />
me down. At the gallery van Gogh was violent<br />
as the
crows in the wheat field began their last ascent.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Three
roads led to that death. All of them blind.<br />
The sky had the
presence of a thousand blue eyes<br />
and the wheat beat itself. The
wheat was not kind.<br />
The crows go up immediately like an old
man’s lies.<br />
The crimes, my Dutchman, that wait within us
all<br />
crawled out of that sea long before the fall.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">I
went to the bookstore and God was not there.<br />
Doctor Faustus was
baby blue with a Knopf dog<br />
on his spine. He was frayed and
threadbare<br />
with needing. The arch-deceiver and I had a
dialogue.<br />
The Debble and I, the Father of Lies
himself,<br />
communed, as it were, from the bookshelf.</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">I
have made a pact and a half in my day<br />
and stolen Godes Boke
during a love affair,<br />
the Gideon itself for all devout salesman
who pray.<br />
The Song of Solomon was underlined by some earlier
pair.<br />
The rest of the words turned to wood in my hands.<br />
I
am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran. </span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.04in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From the <i>Times Literary Supplement</i>, 8/23/2016.</span></span></span></div>
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</div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-86221559358299056482016-08-14T14:36:00.000-04:002016-08-14T14:37:07.993-04:00Just as an olive seedling<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"> J</span></span></span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">an</span></span></span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">
K</span></span></span><span style="text-transform: capitalize;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">ochanowski</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">from<strong>
</strong></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><b>Laments
(no.5)</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">Just
as an olive seedling, when it tries<br />
To grow up like the big
trees towards the skies<br />
And sprouts out of the ground, a
single stalk,<br />
A slender, leafless, twigless, living
stick;<br />
And which, if lopped by the swift sickle’s
blade<br />
Weeding out thorns and nettles, starts to fade<br />
And,
sapped of natural strength, cut off, forlorn,<br />
Drops by the tree
from whose seed it was born –<br />
Growing before her parents’
caring eyes,<br />
She’d barely risen above ground when Death<br />
Felled
the dear child with his infectious breath<br />
At our very feet.
Hard-eyed Persephone,<br />
Were all those tears of no avail to me?</span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">
Trans.,
Stanislaw Baranczak and Seamus Heaney (1995)</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<br />
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br /></div>
Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-76270854305041317302016-07-17T03:30:00.000-04:002016-07-17T03:30:34.296-04:00If I were a bull penguin right now<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span> by
Tony Hoagland</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "Palatino Linotype", serif; line-height: 150%;">Romantic
Moment</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br />
<br />
</div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">After
the nature documentary we walk down,<br />
into the plaza of art
galleries and high end clothing stores<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">where
the mock orange is fragrant in the summer night<br />
and the smooth
adobe walls glow fleshlike in the dark.<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">It
is just our second date, and we sit down on a rock,<br />
holding
hands, not looking at each other,<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">and
if I were a bull penguin right now I would lean over<br />
and vomit
softly into the mouth of my beloved<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">and
if I were a peacock I’d flex my gluteal muscles to<br />
erect and
spread the quills of my cinemax tail.<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">If
she were a female walkingstick bug she might<br />
insert her
hypodermic proboscis delicately into my neck<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">and
inject me with a rich hormonal sedative<br />
before attaching her egg
sac to my thoracic undercarriage,<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">and
if I were a young chimpanzee I would break off a nearby tree limb<br />
and
smash all the windows in the plaza jewelry stores.<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">And
if she was a Brazilian leopard frog she would wrap her
impressive<br />
tongue three times around my right thigh and<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">pummel
me lightly against the surface of our pond<br />
and I would know her
feelings were sincere.<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Instead
we sit awhile in silence, until<br />
she remarks that in the relative
context of tortoises and iguanas,<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">human
males seem to be actually rather expressive.<br />
And I say that
female crocodiles really don’t receive<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">enough
credit for their gentleness.<br />
Then she suggests that it is time
for us to go<br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #1d2129;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">to
get some ice cream cones and eat them.</span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-48698872148285275582016-07-10T03:30:00.000-04:002016-07-10T03:30:09.098-04:00A letter in panic<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></strong></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"> by
</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tomas
Tranströmer </span></strong></span></span></span></span>
</div>
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<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Answers
to Letters</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
the bottom drawer of my desk I come across a letter that first
arrived twenty-six years ago. A letter in panic, and it’s still
breathing when it arrives the second time.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A
house has five windows: through four of them the day shines clear and
still. The fifth faces a black sky, thunder and storm. I stand at the
fifth window. The letter.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sometimes
an abyss opens between Tuesday and Wednesday but twenty-six years may
be passed in a moment. Time is not a straight line, it’s more of a
labyrinth, and if you press close to the wall at the right place you
can hear the hurrying steps and voices, you can hear yourself walking
past there on the other side.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Was
the letter ever answered? I don’t remember, it </span></span></span><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>was </i></span></span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">long
ago. The countless thresholds of the sea went on migrating. The heart
went on leaping from second to second like the toad in the wet grass
of an August night.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
unanswered letters pile high up, like cirro-stratus clouds presaging
bad weather. They make the sunbeams lustreless. One day I will
answer. One day when I am dead and can at last concentrate. Or at
least so far away from here that I can find myself again. When I’m
walking, newly arrived, in the big city, on 125th Street, in the wind
on the street of dancing garbage. I who love to stray off and vanish
in the crowd, a capital T in the mass of the endless text.</span></span></span></div>
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</div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br />
Translated
by Robin Fulton.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-59245557142155572382016-07-03T03:30:00.000-04:002016-07-03T03:30:14.298-04:00The waves whisper like bureaucrats<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> by
Margaret Atwood</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>War
Movie II</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At
last we believe in something:<br />
this is the source of our pain.<br />
We
no longer drink gin<br />
and sleep in,<br />
we no longer bargain.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We
clamber over stony Greece,<br />
we slink through Polish forests,<br />
it
is winter, our toes freeze,<br />
we gnaw on stolen turnips,<br />
we
retreat from Moscow<br />
burning everything.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I
hide the food and rifles<br />
under my filthy shawl;<br />
I wear a
skirt,<br />
I’m less likely to be suspected;<br />
you are a spy,
you are the commander,<br />
your name is Sir,<br />
everyone does what
you say<br />
because it is the only way.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
others are honed and clean,<br />
their heads are signals,<br />
we
stab them without mercy,<br />
we switch clothes with their steel
torsos.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
sun bestows rewards:<br />
we are allowed to cry,<br />
we are given
background music<br />
where there was none, we are finally
emblems,<br />
we are finally credible,<br />
we are finally
single-minded.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Near
the end there is a huge<br />
explosion, a gun<br />
shaped like an
enemy, shaped like a dungeon<br />
topples into the sea.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
the backwash, the waves<br />
whisper like bureaucrats;<br />
they are
planning the peace,<br />
the peace we fight for,<br />
deciding which
of us<br />
to kill, who to sell.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-5183568935053164552016-06-26T03:30:00.000-04:002016-06-26T03:30:00.535-04:00As different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
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<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
‘<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">This is nothing,’ cried
she; ‘I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my
home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and
the angels were so angry that they flung me out, into the middle of
the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for
joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I should have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. What ever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.'</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">Ere this speech ended I became sensible of Heathcliff's presence. Having noticed a slight movement, I turned my head, and saw him rise from the bench, and steal out, noiselessly. He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he staid to hear no farther.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">. . . "I cannot express it; but surely you and every body have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees -- my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath -- a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff -- he's always, always in my mind -- not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself -- but, as my own being -- so, don't talk of our separation again -- it is impracticable; and --'</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">She paused and hid her face in the folds of my gown; but I jerked it forcibly away. I was out of patience with her folly!</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;">from <i>Wuthering Heights</i>, by Emily Bronte.</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-65610885004160203532016-05-22T03:00:00.000-04:002016-05-22T03:00:13.044-04:00When suddenly there is heard at midnight<h1 class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></h1>
<h1 class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The
God Abandons Anthony</span></span></h1>
<h5 class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> by
Constantinos P. Cavafy</span></span></h5>
<div>
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<h1 class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.17in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
suddenly there is heard at midnight <br />
A company passing invisible
<br />
With wonderful music, with voices, -<br />
Your fortune giving
way now, your works<br />
Which have failed, the plans of a
lifetime<br />
All turned illusions, do not mourn uselessly.<br />
As
one prepared long since, courageously, <br />
<br />
Say farewell to
her, to Alexandria who is leaving. <br />
Above all do not be tricked,
never say it was <br />
All a dream, and that your hearing was
deceived; <br />
Do not stop to such vain hopes as these. <br />
<br />
As
one prepared long since, courageously, <br />
As becomes one worthy as
you were of such a city, <br />
Firmly draw near the window, <br />
And
listen with emotion but not <br />
with the complainings and
entreaties of cowards, <br />
Listen, your last enjoyment, to the
sounds, <br />
The wonderful instruments of the mystic company, <br />
And
say farewell, farewell to Alexandria you are losing.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />
</span></span></div>
</h1>
<h5 class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The
poems of C.P. Cavafy. </i>Trans.
J. Mavrogordatos. 1951</span><br />
</span><br />
<br />
</span></h5>
<h1 class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"> Anthony
& Cleopatra</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;"> by
Wm. Shakespeare</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SCENE
III.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Alexandria.
Before CLEOPATRA's palace</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Enter
a company of soldiers</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">FIRST
SOLDIER. Brother, good night. To-morrow is the day.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SECOND
SOLDIER. It will determine one way. Fare you well.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Heard
you of nothing strange about the streets?</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">FIRST
SOLDIER. Nothing. What news?</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SECOND
SOLDIER. Belike 'tis but a rumour. Good night to you.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">FIRST
SOLDIER. Well, sir, good night.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">[They
meet other soldiers]</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SECOND
SOLDIER. Soldiers, have careful watch.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">FIRST
SOLDIER. And you. Good night, good night.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">[The
two companies separate and place themselves</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">in
every corner of the stage]</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SECOND
SOLDIER. Here we. And if to-morrow</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Our
navy thrive, I have an absolute hope</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Our
landmen will stand up.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">THIRD
SOLDIER. 'Tis a brave army,</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">And
full of purpose.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">[Music
of the hautboys is under the stage] </span>
</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SECOND
SOLDIER. Peace, what noise?</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">THIRD
SOLDIER. List, list!</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SECOND
SOLDIER. Hark!</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">THIRD
SOLDIER. Music i' th' air.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">FOURTH
SOLDIER. Under the earth.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">THIRD
SOLDIER. It signs well, does it not?</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">FOURTH
SOLDIER. No.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">THIRD
SOLDIER. Peace, I say!</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">What
should this mean?</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SECOND
SOLDIER. 'Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony lov'd,</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Now
leaves him.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">THIRD
SOLDIER. Walk; let's see if other watchmen</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Do
hear what we do.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SECOND
SOLDIER. How now, masters!</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SOLDIERS.
[Speaking together] How now!</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">How
now! Do you hear this?</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">FIRST
SOLDIER. Ay; is't not strange?</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">THIRD
SOLDIER. Do you hear, masters? Do you hear?</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">FIRST
SOLDIER. Follow the noise so far as we have quarter;</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">Let's
see how it will give off. </span>
</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">SOLDIERS.
Content. 'Tis strange. Exeunt.</span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div class="western" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div>
</h1>
Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-69579702366208329402016-05-16T14:30:00.001-04:002016-05-16T14:30:11.186-04:00Duck feathers from a gold pillow<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Different
Places to Pray</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">by
Susan Rich</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Everywhere,
everywhere she wrote; something is falling –<br />
a ring of
keys slips out of her pocket into the ravine below;</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">nickels
and dimes and <i>to do </i>lists; duck feathers from a gold
pillow.<br />
Everywhere someone is losing a favorite sock or a clock
stops</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">circling
the day; everywhere she goes she follows the ghost of her
heart;<br />
jettisons everything but the shepherd moon, the hopeless
cause.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This
is the way a life unfolds: decoding messages from profiteroles,<br />
the
weight of mature plums in autumn. She’d prefer a compass</span></span></span></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<br />
</div>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">rose,
a star chart, text support messages delivered from the net,<br />
even
the local pet shop – as long as some god rolls away the gloss</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and
grime of our gutted days, our global positioning crimes.<br />
Tell
me, where do you go to pray – a river valley, a pastry tray?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: black;">TLS</span></i>,
May 16, 2016</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-35692405444951348752016-04-27T11:16:00.000-04:002016-04-27T11:16:33.527-04:00Sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt -- the marching song<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<strong><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></strong></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: #625d57; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype', serif;"> by Amy Ratto Parks</span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<strong><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br /></span></span></strong></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<strong><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Verb
of Being</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="color: #625d57;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in;">
<span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">In
7th period Latin we learned the verb to be by chanting</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">sum,
es est, sumus, estis, sunt over and over.</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">I
am, you are, he is. Beautiful William sat next to me</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">and
forward one, and his blond hair fell into his eyes</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">while
he drew busty, corseted women in black ink. Sum, es, est:</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">I
am, you are, she is. Sumus, we are chanting the verb</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">of
being over and over while our teacher, the old man, marched</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">the
aisles. And I chanted too, I am, you are, he is –</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">in
that big, old school building without knowing that across</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">the
valley, my father was marching through the rituals</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">of
diagnosis: the MRI machine, the blood draw, listening</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">while
all the doctors talked. I chanted he is, we are, they are</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">while
he learned about his blood, boiling with virus. I watched</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">beautiful
William toss his blond hair in the sun, and I absentmindedly</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">traced
the outlines of the graffiti on my desk. Sum, es, est,</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">sumus,
estis, sunt – the marching song. I am, we are, he is</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">beautiful
William. Est, he is an old man with a stick. Sum, I am twelve.</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">I
am a daughter, still, of a father for eleven months more.</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Sunt,
they are misdiagnosing. Est, he is trusting. Est, he is afraid.</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">Sum,
es, est, sumus, estis, sunt, the old man marches in my
dreams,</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
<br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">marches
his language song from room 317, from September of 1988</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">forward
through the dusty tables of the kitchens and bedrooms,</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">offices
and libraries of my life. Through all those years teaching us</span></span><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><br />
</span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">in
the present tense, our first lesson: to be, to be, to be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">W</span></span><span style="color: #625d57;"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;">inner
of the 2016 Phi Beta Kappa Arts & Sciences Poetry Contest.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype, serif;"><span style="color: #625d57; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-9311282578809771742016-04-17T03:30:00.000-04:002016-04-17T03:30:00.200-04:00When you played the records with needles<h3 class="western" style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.48in;">
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<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black;"> by
</span></span></strong><span style="color: black;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal;">W. S.
Merwin</span></strong></span></span></span></span></div>
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<h3 class="western" style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Antique Sound</span></span></span></h3>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.48in;">
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<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">There
was an age when you played the records</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">with
ordinary steel needles which grew blunt</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and
damaged the grooves or with more expensive</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">stylus
tips said to be tungsten or diamond</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">which
wore down the records and the music receded</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">but
a friend and I had it on persuasive authority</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">that
the best thing was a dry thorn of the right kind</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and
I knew where to find one of those off to the left</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">of
the Kingston Pike in the shallow swale</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">that
once had been forest and had grown back</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">into
a scrubby wilderness alive with</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">an
earthly choir of crickets blackbirds finches</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">crows
jays the breathing of voles raccoons</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">rabbits
foxes the breeze in the thickets</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">the
thorn bushes humming a high polyphony</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">all
long gone since to improvement but while</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">that
fine dissonance was in tune we rode out</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">on
bicycles to break off dry thorn branches</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">picking
the thorns and we took back the harvest</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and
listened to Beethoven’s Rassoumoffsky</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Quartets
echoed from the end of a thorn.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="letter-spacing: 0.8pt; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.48in;">
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-38268620195127990562016-04-10T03:00:00.000-04:002016-04-10T03:00:05.566-04:00The lily, the rose, the rose I lay<div style="border: none; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.5in; padding: 0in;">
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b> </b>Anonymous</span></span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
Bridal Morn </span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
maidens came<br />
When I was in my mother's bower;<br />
I had all
that I would.<br />
The bailey beareth the bell away;<br />
The
lily, the rose, the rose I lay.<br />
The silver is white, red is the
gold:<br />
The robes they lay in fold.<br />
The bailey beareth the
bell away;<br />
The lily, the rose, the rose I lay.<br />
And
through the glass window shines the sun.<br />
How should I love, and
I so young?<br />
The bailey beareth the bell away;<br />
The
lily, the rose, the rose I lay. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">15th-16th C, British Museum MS Harley 7578.</span></span></span></div>
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-84648002517791880332016-03-27T08:00:00.000-04:002016-03-27T08:00:07.034-04:00Easter 1916<pre class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;"></pre>
<pre class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;"><pre class="western" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> by William Butler Yeats
<b>Easter 1916
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I have met them at close of day</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Coming with vivid faces</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From counter or desk among grey</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Eighteenth-century houses.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I have passed with a nod of the head</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Or polite meaningless words,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Or have lingered awhile and said</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Polite meaningless words,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And thought before I had done</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of a mocking tale or a gibe</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To please a companion</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Around the fire at the club,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Being certain that they and I</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">But lived where motley is worn:</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">All changed, changed utterly:</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A terrible beauty is born.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That woman’s days were spent</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In ignorant good-will,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Her nights in argument</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Until her voice grew shrill.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What voice more sweet than hers</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When, young and beautiful,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">She rode to harriers?</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This man had kept a school</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And rode our wingèd horse;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This other his helper and friend</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Was coming into his force;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He might have won fame in the end,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So sensitive his nature seemed,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So daring and sweet his thought.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This other man I had dreamed</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A drunken, vainglorious lout.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He had done most bitter wrong</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To some who are near my heart,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yet I number him in the song;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He, too, has resigned his part</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the casual comedy;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">He, too, has been changed in his turn,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Transformed utterly:</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A terrible beauty is born.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hearts with one purpose alone</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Through summer and winter seem</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enchanted to a stone</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To trouble the living stream.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The horse that comes from the road,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The rider, the birds that range</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">From cloud to tumbling cloud, </span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minute by minute they change;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A shadow of cloud on the stream</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Changes minute by minute;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A horse-hoof slides on the brim,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And a horse plashes within it;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The long-legged moor-hens dive,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And hens to moor-cocks call;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Minute to minute they live;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The stone’s in the midst of all.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Too long a sacrifice</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Can make a stone of the heart.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">O when may it suffice?</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That is Heaven’s part, our part</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To murmur name upon name,</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As a mother names her child</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When sleep at last has come</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On limbs that had run wild.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What is it but nightfall?</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">No, no, not night but death;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Was it needless death after all?</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For England may keep faith</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For all that is done and said.</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We know their dream; enough</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To know they dreamed and are dead;</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And what if excess of love</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bewildered them till they died?</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I write it out in a verse --</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">MacDonagh and MacBride</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">And Connolly and Pearse</span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Now and in time to be, </span></span></span>
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
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Nauplionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10598950480737808706noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6470212656564752905.post-1244995576988266572016-03-13T03:22:00.000-04:002016-03-13T03:22:12.649-04:00I beg you to repair it<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-left: 0.5in;">
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"> by
Anne Porter</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">A
Short Testament</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">Whatever
harm I may have done<br />
In all my life in all your wide creation<br />
If
I cannot repair it<br />
I beg you to repair it,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">And
then there are all the wounded<br />
The poor the deaf the lonely and
the old<br />
Whom I have roughly dismissed<br />
As if I were not one
of them.<br />
Where I have wronged them by it<br />
And cannot make
amends<br />
I ask you<br />
To comfort them to overflowing,</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">And
where there are lives I may have withered around me,<br />
Or lives of
strangers far or near<br />
That I’ve destroyed in blind
complicity,<br />
And if I cannot find them<br />
Or have no way to
serve them,</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0.06in; margin-left: 0.5in; margin-top: 0.06in;">
<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">Remember
them. I beg you to remember them</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823;"><span style="font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif;">When
winter is over<br />
And all your unimaginable promises<br />
Burst
into song on death’s bare branches.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #141823; font-family: "palatino linotype" , serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 150%;">Thanks
to Grace Low.</span></div>
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