tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39663602024-03-09T20:34:13.267-05:00HG PoeticsHenry Gould's poetry & poetics. Write me : henryhgould@gmail.comHenry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.comBlogger4572125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-68562090795941910192024-01-07T23:26:00.000-05:002024-01-07T23:26:51.303-05:00Epiphany<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVBDufUF8jlPUgmEiuiLt0rLYWUBi7Esy38yubWGS1oNYlVYOl3HZl3OTbL6RasyqVZnVIodnxbwvF1pjVqYX205h9xir1PObF6KI4nV9sRESeFW_zoXg6x7MyMPEPuOFsMW_UG0yr3g4FzDZKSlru9YTQFnhAnLdOcL9sbh8X8DLPeTf1Kh3bWg/s640/IMG_1402.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="320" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVBDufUF8jlPUgmEiuiLt0rLYWUBi7Esy38yubWGS1oNYlVYOl3HZl3OTbL6RasyqVZnVIodnxbwvF1pjVqYX205h9xir1PObF6KI4nV9sRESeFW_zoXg6x7MyMPEPuOFsMW_UG0yr3g4FzDZKSlru9YTQFnhAnLdOcL9sbh8X8DLPeTf1Kh3bWg/s320/IMG_1402.jpg"/></a></div>
Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-56189914178317793562023-12-14T11:47:00.008-05:002023-12-14T11:57:33.712-05:00Notes on Poetry #1<br>It may be that every single assertion about poetry in general, poetry in the
abstract, can be contradicted by another assertion. Poetry is as multifaceted as
the language and speech from which it grows. Moreover, the word "poetry" itself
suffers from many types of overuse (my own type very much included).</br>
<br>With these
caveats... here goes, anyway.</br>
<br>Poetry is the blossom, the fruit, the harvest of
the ear. Much has been made of its roots in imagery, dreams, the visual
imagination. But every landscape "seen" in poetry is a vision interpreted by the
ear. My first thought is of the immense quiet of the forest. The delicacy of
muted signals and rustlings of small birds and animals, within that enveloping
near-silence. The title of Eliot's book of essays, <i>The Sacred Wood</i>, comes
to mind. Poetry sets itself apart, distinguishes itself, by means of protective
rings (like a bird's nest) of quietness, hiddenness, remoteness.</br>
<br>I don't mean to
suggest any kind of hermeticism or passive withdrawal from the brash, noisy
parade – the tense moral battles – of time, history and humanity. No : rather
poetry absorbs, reflects and transfigures all that loud aggressive vitality – by
means of its superior powers of the ear. And these powers are rooted and refined
in the vast, remote, "woodland" habitat – the quietness of the word.</br>
Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-18154475934682102432023-12-02T11:09:00.016-05:002023-12-02T11:13:02.831-05:00Back to the future of blogging ?I'm very belatedly trying to edit and update HG Poetics. Working on my "Blog List" sidebar, I've deleted some old or unavalaible links – and surprised to find that an extreme few of my longtime comrades from the Blogging Era are still there. Will try to explore what they're saying and doing. I've also updated the links to available HG books. Meanwhile I will ponder how to make HG Poetics more alive and interesting to Vexillologists, Poetry-Loving Expert Technicians, Distant Interlocutors, and other Readers of the Future.Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-74207049165150001272020-12-10T23:55:00.002-05:002020-12-10T23:59:18.298-05:00Advent Found Poem (found just now)<p class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 10px; white-space: pre;"> </span> UNEXPECTED LIGHT</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <i>courtesy of Dennis Overbye & </i>NY Times (12.8.20)</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Slight threads of Agnes Martin</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>touch their way across a night sea.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>The universe is a shade too bright</i>.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>…<i>more very faint galaxies or star clusters</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> contributing to the background light</i>.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>The most likely explanation, he said…</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> a less exciting possibility… “we messed up</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> and missed a light source or camera</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> artifact that we should have figured out.</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> This is what I worry about the most.”</i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>But how dark is dark? …<i>the measurement</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> had a 5 percent chance of being a fluke.</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <i>“Your distant neighbor eating leftover turkey</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> at three in the morning is not going to</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> wake you up at night from the glare.”</i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A leafless oak with its arms thrown out</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>like a knot of knots in the arctic wind</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>– thin memory of warmth (hearth,</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>heartbeat).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Presumably, in an infinite</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> static universe, every line of sight</i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <i>ends at a star, so shouldn’t the sky appear</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> as bright as the sun?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>But astronomers</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> now know</i>… But how dark is dark?</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> 2 sigma – <i>far cry from gold standard</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> for discovery of</i> 5 sigma… <i>zoomed past</i></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Arrokoth, <i>formerly</i> Ultima Thule</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>(<i>7.14.2015</i>).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We imagine a manger</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>in drear December.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One ox-eyed</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>bare exile, burbling in a steaming barn</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>beneath caved-in roof… placid beasts,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>primitive smiles.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>In the Darkness</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> of Empty Space, Unexpected Light</i>.</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>From the human heart steps the <i>King</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> of Fools</i>… now her serene lowliness</p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>nurses the <i>Emperor of Poverty</i> in peace.</p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 13px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <i>12.10.20</i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p2" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi12wY9Pyy0BSbTkOyCmNmL1AnNyZERgMbT6beDB6esHrlquWLI_WLXwvMQZ9Dl70TZoUEsjqSmGIO5rIAwoKk8m7VheaTsSFaQsHP_Q64-aS6qzxEICBFev1ySjikE4T5osg-wSw/s2048/Overbye+article.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi12wY9Pyy0BSbTkOyCmNmL1AnNyZERgMbT6beDB6esHrlquWLI_WLXwvMQZ9Dl70TZoUEsjqSmGIO5rIAwoKk8m7VheaTsSFaQsHP_Q64-aS6qzxEICBFev1ySjikE4T5osg-wSw/s320/Overbye+article.JPG" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i><p></p>Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-61401156313591290962020-10-26T23:30:00.005-04:002020-10-26T23:32:37.376-04:00Synthesis & first principles in poetry<p> My "theory" of poetry, how I think about poetry in general or in the abstract, is idiosyncratic and fundamentally improvised. I don't have a system or a rationale which I can advocate for or teach, as objective or universally relevant. Nevertheless I feel the urge to organize my thoughts and defend my own practice. Blogs are exquisitely appropriate for this kind of off-the-cuff table-talk, aren't they? Sure, Henry.</p><p>And inevitably I'm bound to repeat myself. I've been blogging along here for years. Sorry about that.</p><p>I think poets are usually drawn to poetry as part of a general attraction to literature, an affinity for reading and words, a responsiveness to art and music. And I think this "general attraction" is part of an even more basic and universal human adherence to the good and the beautiful aspects of life as a whole. We are drawn magnetically to works of art even as they present the most tragic, painful and horrible dimensions of experience - because these works of art lend these dimensions some kind of meaning and order. The love of art is a facet of an even more basic love of life itself - which partakes of a kind of shared sacred awe reaching back to the origins of the human race (and maybe before that).</p><p>The making and experience of poetry is part of this magic circle of a very primordial sense of awe. The poetic Word is free, dynamic, holistic and sacred, because it partakes of this powerful aura of a sort of ontological First Principle of reality - the "ground", the source.</p><p>By no means would I wish to suggest or have anything to do with a sort of Heideggerian mystagogy or irrationalism. But I feel that, precisely because poetry is linked with this very basic and universal, this "anthropological" first principle - an innate sense of awe before the wholeness, oneness and power of life - it therefore aligns with the universality of reason, logic and science. Reason (as Fichte, Brightman and of course many others have argued) is both analytical and synoptic. We analyze to apprehend and distinguish; we synthesize to understand. Poetry is no different. What poetry adds to this rational and philosophic drive toward comprehensive understanding is a kind of aesthetic reflexivity. Poetry's vivid, personal, expressive verbal <i>enactments</i> of communication both <i>represent</i> and <i>embody</i>, simultaneously. This extra layer of reflexivity, reverberation, and self-consciousness accounts for the intense configurations of poetic speech (Mandelstam's crystal of "terrifying density"). </p><p>As I understand it, poetry gives voice to a subjective, and inter-subjective, dimension of reality. It is not opposed to science as such; but it suggests and evokes this awe, this attitude of humility toward the fundamental mystery of life. As such it is <i>vitalist, holistic</i>, and <i>personal</i> - and it presents an image of reality as a whole which corresponds to these qualities. The struggle of the Romantic movement, to transcend the discursive rationalism of the Enlightenment, presents one of the historic enactments of this duality (subject and object, detachment and wonder, poetry and prose). </p><p>I recognize the perhaps absurd anachronism of these principles. But with respect to my own poetic development, one of the issues or themes that I have found so fascinating and generative is the American history of the encounter between a colonial worldview, on the one hand, rooted in both Puritan piety and revolutionary democracy based on Enlightenment ideals, and a Native American worldview, rooted in very archaic notions of just this sense of pious awe before the vital spiritual unity of life. And I began to delve into the "anthropological underside" of my own faith tradition, and recognize affinities with primordial myths and rituals played out across the globe, from which the Native American beliefs represent one branch, and the various sources of the "Old World", another. So I sense that underlying the tragic conflict and the criminal inhumanities of that American history, there is this basic spiritual encounter, to be understood on an intellectual, philosophical, plane as well as a purely political or historical level.</p><p>Anyway, this notion leads into some of the thematic sources and ideas which undergird my lengthy journeys through the realms of the "American epic" or long-poem mode.</p><p>& now it's late, I must hit the sack - good night.</p>Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-6628742762623230542020-10-18T22:53:00.001-04:002020-10-18T23:02:01.456-04:00Continuity of American Poetry<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAZ-GGH1NiiVZuQc13RxAR18XGQ2yQkdDQY8GD_f-MPbGn5R_TXix50BYzFzESpUxad5mOh6R-jD2t6uegQm4wkQDSM8wxhfI9PBPPmFGncG4Oaa0nXk4Eaq9VO6fmHLK7FIgyDA/s2048/RHP+bk.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAZ-GGH1NiiVZuQc13RxAR18XGQ2yQkdDQY8GD_f-MPbGn5R_TXix50BYzFzESpUxad5mOh6R-jD2t6uegQm4wkQDSM8wxhfI9PBPPmFGncG4Oaa0nXk4Eaq9VO6fmHLK7FIgyDA/s320/RHP+bk.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p>In 1961 cultural historian and Americanist (& specialist in New England Puritanism) Roy Harvey Pearce published a book, <i>The Continuity of American Poetry</i>. Clearly a labor of love, the work is a meticulous and passionate appraisal, unfolding a kind of American pantheon, from the Puritans to the mid-century moderns - with a special focus on the "long poem" - culminating in a juxtaposition of Eliot and Stevens, as representing two fundamental modes or "basic styles" - the "Adamic" and the "mythic" imagination. Both modes hinge on Pearce's central insight : that the specifically American literary challenge (or quandary) has to do with an American urge to manifest a new, democratic concept of "Man" (in the species sense) - in the midst of a raw, pioneering, Puritanical, pragmatic culture which was (in most ways) strictly "anti-poetic".</p><p>The book arrived on the cusp of change - when the clashing perspectives of (for just one of many examples) Eliot, Stevens, WC Williams and Marianne Moore were crystallizing in separate canonical camps (New Critics, Projectivists, Objectivists, etc.), and when a younger generation was about to scramble the checkerboard - Robert Lowell's <i>Life Studies</i>, the Beats, the New York School. And <i>it left out so much</i> (just about any poet who was not white & male, basically - with very few exceptions). These are some of the probable reasons that <i>Continuity of American Poetry</i> has fallen into oblivion.</p><p>Yet Pearce's <i>Continuity</i> has a powerful logical backbone. Its central argument makes for an impressive coherence, a cohesive intellectual synthesis. The argument might be bowdlerized thus : American history is rooted in New England Puritanism. The Puritans' forthright adventure into the wilderness, armed with their Protestant, separatist focus on Biblical scripture rather than ecclesiastical authority, set the tone for the pious, devotional, anti-poetic emphasis on Man's utter depravity - on the complete vanity of worldly hopes - and on Man's total moral abasement and dependence on divine grace. These touchstones of belief and worldview ensured that the writing of poetry would be at best a devotional exercise, at worst a worldly & possibly heretical hobbyhorse. This basic attitude did not foreclose the writing of Puritan poetry : Edward Taylor, Anne Bradstreet and others still found ways to harp in the wilderness. Yet its main consequence was to set in motion - by opposition - what became the major mode of American poetry : the antinomian, anti-devotional, egocentric, "Adamic" imagination. What began with the prophetess Anne Hutchinson's exile from Boston, led to Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson, and all their heirs : the American poet's declaration of independence from any and all European shackles or constraints.</p><p>Pearce's depiction of the 20th century involves a dialectical reversal. Robert Frost is the exemplar of the American antinomian impulse reaching its rueful cul-de-sac; he is the sage of diminished expectations, the voice of disenchanted Adam. Pound and Eliot initiate a counter-thrust : not the poet as creative Adam, but poet as passive, memorious Tiresias. Surrendering the futile, failing human ego to the mythic and post-mythic absolutes of traditional faith, Man is reconciled to eternity (see Eliot, from <i>The Waste Land</i> to <i>Four Quartets</i>).</p><p>Wallace Stevens, then, for Pearce, represents the culmination of the American <i>No, in thunder</i> to this powerful impulse (via Poe, Eliot & Pound) to reject Whitman's democratic America and its Adamic imagination. Stevens, in a sense, formalizes the modern, existential vision of human dignity <i>without</i> the Modernist "myths" of God or gods. He declares and celebrates the sufficiency of the human imagination - in the face of the harshness of material Nature and an intuition of unknowable, alien Mind - and seeks heroic joy & praise in the midst of the storm (there's something very Beethoven about this poetic Mozart).</p><p>I've left out Pearce's forecast that future generations would find a way through this either/or. And I've left out one of the main threads of his thesis, having to do with the development of the American long poem (Whitman-Pound-Crane-WC Williams) as the expression of a completely new form of epic : a tale in which there is no exemplary, legendary, semi-divine epic hero, but in which the poet is the hero, the speaking protagonist, of the new American (& cosmic) imagination - shaping a new vision of human dignity rooted in complete equality : Everyman and Everywoman at the center of reality.</p><p>And reading this book puts me face-to-face with my own posture in this field, as a longtime practitioner of the "long poem". Looking for reinforcements, I've been reading a short book (proceeds of a lecture) by Edgar Sheffield Brightman, from 1925 : <i>Immortality in Post-Kantian Idealism. </i> Brightman was a philosopher of the "Boston Personalist" school (out of Boston University) - one of Martin Luther King's intellectual influences.</p><p>One of the things Brightman asserts is that our beliefs and opinions regarding the immortality of the human person are inseparable from the general cultural ground or worldview out of which they manifest; they are incomprehensible if simply abstracted in isolation. This is of a piece with his characterization of human reason and logic : he follows the German Idealist philosopher Johann Fichte in proposing a dual architecture of rationality - <i>understanding</i> (analysis) and <i>reason</i> (synthesis). Both are necessary : we <i>analyze</i> experience in order to <i>synthesize</i> its meaning as a whole, as an organic, living entity. </p><p>This approach - holistic, organic, synoptic - seems to me to be of the essence with regard to poetry. Poetry is the living speech of living men & women, shaping holistic representations of actual experience. </p><p>Wallace Stevens celebrates this imaginative synthetic human essence with great probity and power. Yet I have to disagree with him with regard to his most basic postulates. I stand with the Boston Personalists with respect to theism & a-theism. </p><p>So with poetry, and the vision of poetry, I feel I am floating somewhere there between Eliot & Stevens, Pound & Crane, & Berryman. The Personalists argue that the synthetic human imagination, and the organic wholes of full understanding and rationality, encounter a Reality suffused with creative Mind and Purpose; that individual persons do not create the Universe <i>ex nihilo</i>, but reflect and complete that cosmic synthesis in the working-out of their own free destinies - and thus fulfill the graceful purposes of the Creation from <i>in the beginning</i>. Persons are not dissolved into the One, but manifest it - personally. And this manifest human dignity - this <i>imago Dei</i> - is the ultimate synthesis of nature and spirit. So we are not, <i>pace</i> Stevens, existential <i>isolatos</i>, lost in an immeasurable and incalculable natural chaos or storm. Nor are we superhuman ("major Man") masters of our fate. Rather we are caught up in Martin Luther King's cosmic "web of mutuality" - a universe of (hopefully) immortal life, moral conscience, and truth, which undergirds and underwrites human dignity and freedom in mortal time and history.</p><p>It's getting late, so I will close up here. (This post is really a throwback to the old bloggy table-talk of <i>HG Poetics</i> days of yore).</p>Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-6696910327810001172020-08-11T11:20:00.000-04:002020-08-11T11:21:23.343-04:00Uncomfortable DreamingServes me right - after my glib gab here yesterday about dreams, <i>la vida es sueno</i>, etc. - that last night I would wake up at 3 a.m. after a dark & troubling dream that stirred my conscience. Jealousy, violence, remorse... strange symbolism of the heart.<br />
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"The heart is desperately corrupt"... says the prophet Jeremiah.<br />
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Lay awake thinking about the dream for a long time.<br />
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My comments in yesterday's post about holism in literature, philosophy, theology - and about the <i>Union</i>, and the common good, sought through the civic faith of Gorski's "American covenant" - were undercut a little by my own dream last night. I lay there pondering things about which perhaps the Puritans and Roger Williams also meditated late at night.<br />
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The separation of Church & State, or Williams' (& others') distinction between the "two tables" of the Mosaic law (the sacred and the civil codes) perhaps grows logically out of a real, a factual, distinction, between a person's spiritual life - the life of the soul - and the collective social life we organize and share. Between religion & government; between spirit & flesh. Perhaps there is this deep and actual dividing line - in the midst of all the seamlessness of vision, the oneness of nature, and the unity of the common good toward which we strive together.<br />
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For me the problematics and contradictions of this situation are almost irresolvable and impossible to figure out. Because, as the <i>animale compagnevole</i>, we obviously do not live our lives alone; we are born into relations with others; our very selves develop in these deep relationships. Yet many (including Roger Williams, for example) would argue that true religion is about the individual soul's relationship with God.<br />
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Perhaps one solution is to suggest that the solitude of our relation to God is also the pivot of our personal liberty, and the foundation of our moral responsibility (freedom and responsibility being the very spine of personal selfhood).<br />
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We can understand, in this context, how the absolute transcendence of the Hebrew God stands as the basis, the historical origin, of moral freedom and human equality. Not that moral freedom and equality did not previously exist in various kinship bands and human cultures beforehand; but the Hebraic covenant so to speak <i>articulated</i> this reality in stone, in the midst of empires and states devoted to sacred kings and unlimited, divine royal power.<br />
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But let me return to last night's dream. <i>The heart is desperately corrupt</i>, the prophet cries. Between the mind's dutiful bookkeeping and the heart's passions lies a wide dark gulf. I woke from my disturbing dream with this thought : <i>true religion is the soul's remorseful conscience, seeking the intercession of the Spirit, the mercy of God, because there is no other help</i>. John the Baptist at the river's edge, for example, demanding only personal simplicity and true repentance. The universal "high priest" is essentially a healer of souls.<br />
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This spiritual dimension is personal. It is an otherness, distinct from the public, civic, political sphere. The two dimensions are obviously intertwined in each of our lives, and in all our cultures, societies, nations - yet they are distinct. The two tables of the Law. "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's". Roger Williams, among others, believed in "natural law" - that human beings are naturally endowed with the conscience to determine right and wrong, and the ability to organize themselves in societies dedicated (however imperfectly) to liberty and justice. The fact that people of all faiths and cultures are so endowed, whatever their denomination or confession, is the prime basis for religious liberty and political tolerance.<br />
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I don't know if I've been able to express myself very clearly or well here this morning. What struck me as I lay there thinking over the dream was a sense of <i>contrast</i> between our public and politically-charged debates about cultural and religious issues, our disputes over differing group demands, rights, and powers, one the one hand - and the inward spiritual dimension of "true religion" on the other. Conscience, belief, reasoning, searching hearts, inwardness, and personal acts of repentance, humility and charity : these are religion. "Do justice, and walk humbly with your God". It's not about political maneuvering, bickering, and social power. Those things are part of the <i>civic</i> world, the secular table of the Law.Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-75094464767729848202020-08-10T21:03:00.004-04:002020-08-10T21:11:15.309-04:00New Antidote for DeracinationAfter a super-natural lightning-&-thunderstorm over Minnesota last night, today it's very clear and quiet here in Minneapolis. My family is happily up in the woods; I'm staying home to care for my 92-yr-old mother, who's lying a-bed in hospice now, nearby.<br />
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I used to blog on <i>HG Poetics</i> A LOT. Now that <i><a href="https://www.dosmadres.com/shop/ravenna-diagram-volume-iii-by-henry-gould/" target="_blank">Ravenna Diagram</a></i> is a done thing - finished, packed, booked - I'm someways at loose ends. Feeling the predictable anxiety for the poem's future, its reception (or non-). And trying to live with this awkward new rhythm of NOT writing the absorbant river-poem every day, NOT swimming along in its echoes, memory maps, feedback chicken coops... where to now, Mr. Hen, Mr. Chicken Bones?<br />
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Feeling my marginal non-presence, as ever. I don't write much <a href="http://hgessrev.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">criticism</a>, I don't write many <a href="http://hgessrev.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">book reviews</a>, I'm not in the professional set-ups. In some ways the MFA structure encourages the membership of poets among the intelligentsia, the knowledge workers - professors, scholars, journalists, scientists, etc. There are certainly some benefits in that regard for literature. But with the professionalization comes a modicum of climate control, opinion moderation, careerism, bureaucracy... Deracination.<br />
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Yet poetry is one possible antidote to spiritual deracination.<br />
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Am re-reading Philip Gorski's fine book <i>American Covenant. </i>Subtitled <i>a history of civil religion from the Puritans to the present</i>.<br />
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Gorski sees democratic republicanism (as in <i>republic </i>with a small, non-party-affiliated "r") as representing the growing, changing, developing civil religion of the United States. Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln are its chief prophets. The civil religion understands history in general, and American history in particular, not as circular (as with social conservatism), nor as linear (as with social progressivism), but as a <i>spiral </i>- by which people draw inspiration from the principles and ideals of the past, so as to move forward toward a more just and perfect future Union.<br />
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Such democratic republicanism requires from each a personal tempering and restraint of private passions (whether for fame, or pleasure, or success, or wealth, or domination), on behalf of the <i>res publica</i>, the common good. But this worldview is optimistic about such a process, since the view is grounded in a concept of human nature as fundamentally and naturally <i>social</i>. We do not achieve our best selves or ultimate good in solitude; Man, as Dante put it (following Aristotle), is the <i>animale compagnevole</i> - the "friendly animal".<br />
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Gorski sketches out the main philosophical antagonists to our "civil religion" of civic republicanism : 1) religious nationalism - ie. the idolatry of the Nation, the nostalgic (Confederate) blood and soil, cloaked in apocalyptic or narrowly literalist Biblical fundamentalism; and 2) radical secularism, the absolute separation of all religious belief and feeling from the civic sphere, on behalf of various strands of Lockean neo-liberalism, atomized libertarianism, or progressive scientism. He outlines in detail the complex shifts in the growth of these beliefs, and their political effects, through American history.<br />
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What does this have to do with poetry? In my view, poetry reflects certain implicit habits of mind and philosophical stances, which are motivated in part by the poet's ongoing commitment to and absorption with the creative process. This view is certainly partial, debatable and not acceptable to all (or perhaps even many) poets; but my firm sense is, that poetry is allied to the mentality of holism, synthesis, continuity, unity. The creative process is an intellectual or logical search for integration, the correlation of disparate or contradictory parts into wholes. The vision of poetry is an effort to abstract a seamless representation from life itself - without tearing or disrupting the <i>seamless experience</i> of reality itself. Normative human life is an incomprehensible ongoing seamless whole; art is a partial moral and intellectual comprehension of that life, through a clear mirror. "My circuit is circumference," writes Emily Dickinson.<br />
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I've tried in my own long poems (most recently <i>Ravenna Diagram</i>) to represent life as a living wholeness, a <i>wholeness of living Mind or Spirit</i>.<br />
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<i>La vida es sueno</i> : life is a dream. Such an idealist-romantic stance is at odds with the materialist or analytical approach of philosophical skepticism. To put it in a nutty nutshell : my sense is that the primitive spiritualism of archaic humanity is allied with the theological commitments of major religions : we inhabit a cosmos of living Mind, of spiritual Personhood. A position which underlies - <i>rationalizes</i> - all the traditional faith commitments regarding life-after-death or resurrection. <i>La vida es sueno</i> : this is my own "dream song".<br />
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<i>All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players</i>...<br />
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Back to blogging... ? I guess I will leave it at that for now. Good night !<br />
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">MAY-MONTH</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Again, the quiet of a cloudy day</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in Minneapolis.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>May Day</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in quarantine.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is the day</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">maidens in flowery garlands would ply</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">their threads around the blossoming May-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">pole.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hobo is not Falstaff, I say –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">he is the <i>King of May</i>;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a blooming almond be his rod of sway.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>*</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Meanwhile, archaic <i>Hen the Rain King</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">by circuitous path hath circled</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">back to River Road.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">His early neighborhood – passing</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">his mother’s house, her father built</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">– that <i>Master of Grain Elevators</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(Ravlin, J.H.).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His crop rotator’s</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">resting now.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>River-tongues will gather silt.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">An old man hoists his memories</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">upon his back.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Their weight,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">grown heavy, will grow light…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Grace is a salty providential breeze.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I hear the whisper of her crane-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">bone flute – the drone</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of one <i>trompette marine…</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Guillaume’s <i>grande dame</i> will rise again.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& I sense Osip’s revolving sisters,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">melding gradually their</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">sarabande.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Rose flowers</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">share circumference (O <i>lento</i> tenderness).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I never want to leave this house.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Orioles sing in the forest</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">under their shade palimpsest…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(oaks’ rattling snare-susurrus).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A fresh breeze brings the May-month in.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The sisters ring their double wreath.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The young hawthorn on Fisher St.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">is blooming pink.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The almond</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in her dark eyes glows, her smile</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of <i>Sheba-Shekinah</i>… the lady</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of the <i>Song of Songs</i> (spry</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">tree of Galilee, in Rhody Isle).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The gawky prehistoric gingko</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Granddad planted is</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">still there (at 1615).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Its</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">golden Memphis fans billow</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in breezes off the Mississippi.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The asphodel, acacia…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the acorns greening, high</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">over the house… & now I see</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">her – cartwheeling across a field</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">like some sapling tornado!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Sophie or Pocahontas?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>O</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">that Gravesend kid – her diamond shield</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">my royal seal!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Her acorn coracle</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">my <i>Isis</i> barge – her eye</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">my <i>Argo’s</i> midnight sky!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Across the Black Sea of a world-debacle</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">shining (congruent) one American ray –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">my <i>Henry-church</i>, our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Churnagogue</i>… one flour-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>cattedrale</i> – out of spiritual clay!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>*</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Like simple San Fran in Frisco</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">he crost himself, at height</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of orange Golden Gate –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">where Juliet booked… O</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">her last, self-cancelled flight.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>& Henry</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">built a rude crossroad</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in old Rhode Eye.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sold</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">on Roger’s fine distinction – worldly</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">profiting & holy soul-seeking be not</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the same.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Yet they are wed</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">by law-abiding God</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">into a single providential knot –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">that normative & innocent new world</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">as old as children underneath a tree</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">chanting together of a chaste reality</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">where <i>Love</i> is as the <i>Ocean – </i>pearled</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in tides of light (beneath the moon,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">beyond the moon).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This charity</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">stands like a tall pine tree,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">from earthy root up to invisibility… one</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Union of pure dream-substantiality;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>good will</i>, reflected in the hearts</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of humankind – with all our arts</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in-woven there (O graceful tapestry).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>*</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The little magnolia on River Road</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">by Granddad’s elegant abode</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">unleashed her winter load</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of fluttery wings (<i>Primavera</i> mode).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Persephone, Eurydice go underground</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& Beatrice to the sky…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>a grain of wheat must die</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">so spring’s magnolia blooms abound.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">May Day… the worker bees unite.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The earth itself is in labor</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">fired in the kiln of <i>Evermore</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Communion loaves of clay ignite.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Everything spins in the green matrix.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Liberty & justice, equity</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& equilibrium… an origami</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">fold of love & intellect – deep <i>Genetrix</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a whirl of fiery faery feet – Elohim</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">twirling on galactic rim</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">with ocarina Jonah-hum,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to glaze the grail-stone with her hymn.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Sophie was making rivers on the patio,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& found a black-brown woolly bear –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">small furry embryonic caterpillar</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">searching for a leaf to call ground zero.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Henry was looking for an oak-bole too.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">At end of May, at Pentecost,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">on Dante’s birthday, JFK’s… lost</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Restoration RI</i> zone?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Hagia Sophia? – </span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">YOU</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">.</span></div>
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<i>5.1.20</i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-44183374617093595602020-04-30T22:24:00.002-04:002020-04-30T22:24:55.777-04:00on long feet<div class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin-left: 72px;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">LIGHT RABBI</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Calm evening at the end of April.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Wisdom of the ancients</i> –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">unity of changing constants.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A continuum… a synthesis… a will</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to find a meaning in the whole;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a portion of instinctive</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">gratitude – the urge to live</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">unfolding origami in the soul.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We dwell beneath an aegis of benevolent ideas</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">like clouds (reflecting sunlight,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">bringing rain).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>& <i>everything</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>will be all right</i>, my father said – his palm</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">over my flooding eyes.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This the providence</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of sparrows & tall kings –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of all those feathered things</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">that soar so bravely into turbulence.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">So then… who’s your imaginary friend,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Henry?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>That loony Hobo</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">drifting from his local slough</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">down to the Gulf of Mexico?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Just a bend</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in the river?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>See thou</i>, Hart says</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">– <i>touches a key</i>, <i>perhaps</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">After the world-collapse</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">he’ll still be burbling his sabbath-sense;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">planting a tender middle C</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">between <i>Ocean</i> & me</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">where clay & sea</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">are cleft at last, to rescue Thee<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>*</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">– the <i>clé</i> to my <i>ecclesia</i>, Julie –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a soft glissando <i>pour l’église</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">from San Francisco to Louise</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(grey <i>Dolphy</i> surfacing beside me).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& if reality is simply a supremely poetic idea</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">then the <i>Imago</i> of images</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">is like a seed of peacefulness –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a still point (painted on a bowl in Cahokia)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">or that <i>eye-in-hand</i> Hobo held out to me</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the wad of river-mud</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Rabbi patterns for the blind</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">saying, <i>Ephphatha</i>… (gently, gently).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Everything has already been redeemed</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& an orb rests in Hobo’s eye</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">with dewfall of memory</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& earth-pangs for the <i>not-yet-dreamed.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Everything rising with the <i>soeur-coulombe</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the <i>sister-dove</i>, the Jonah-Joan</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the twin, <i>O my beloved one</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">light Rabbi hopping through the gloom</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">on long feet <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>heading for the nest</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">on crest of wave</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">that vertical canoe-nave</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">pronged <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at heart of Southern Cross</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">6 tracks of Black Elk diamond</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">ghost dance of <i>Rio del</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Espiritu <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>sprung up</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">for you & me <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>out of dis April pond</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">This simple cup of Red Wing clay –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I thought it might be cracked.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A thick dark zigzag tracked</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the rim.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Some dragon gone astray?</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Quickening lightning, heavy thunder…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">power of ice-breaking spring.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The bursting-forth of everything</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in moss-green gold & violet splendor.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Or something darker, circuiting its wheel.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Cold-blooded Serpent, shattering</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Anansi’s web (her glittering</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">fishnet, awash with dew)… to steal,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to kill.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Ouroboros</i>-pelt of power</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">peeled from its fountain (O</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">omnipresent sweet communion</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">threaded like planetary Venus-flower).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The poet’s voice lurks with the refugees.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Exiled flint mirror, casting back</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the shadow of one seamless lack</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of liberty, justice – life’s guarantees.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It is a tool, a sharpened raven-knife</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">polished in Voronezh.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">That river-town, at edge</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of steppe.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>O <i>Evening Star</i>, O <i>sister-wife</i>…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The river sways its coppery smooth fan</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">from forest spring to <i>Okeanos</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>One</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">willowy limb of oaken</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">mast… grounding the flash where it began.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">If I could gather all 9 muses</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">around the iron horseshoe</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Hobo found along the shore…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a middle C stranded by silted rivers.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">If I could loop a thread-corral</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">around the bullish history</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of bardic poetry…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Whitman & Olson, the whole passel</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of a thousand Pounds – a ton</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of raw American aggression</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">packed in Julian tin can</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of salmon absolute (O prodigal son).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>You must bind up the strong man</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>if you would rob his house</i>,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">strums Shep Jesus –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the <i>Son of Man</i> opposes <i>Czar Ivan</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i></i></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>K. Trump</i> (& all his lawless minions).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">For Moses was an anti-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Pharaoh, & his text a fey</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">neutrino-trace – reversing their dominions</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(anti-matter realms of fearful absence).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Their malice plays for keeps –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the quasi-Reagan creeps</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">who stigmatize Abe Lincoln’s conscience</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of profound Union.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A government</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of people, by & for people</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">whose penny is a steep</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>L</i>-rectitude – the normative ligament</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>*</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of every child of God (<i>my soul to keep</i>);</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the stony fundament</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">that grounds each document</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">hedging the tyrant (<i>as ye sow</i>, <i>shall reap</i>).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">For this Hobo bent toward St. Louis,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">where clays rotate</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">around an elder potentate;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the foolish king, whose power was on lease</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to that familial mutuality</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(the kinfolk circle</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& the starry wheel)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Jesus displayed in his nativity.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Star of David</i>, hidden in the clouds</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">like 4-leaf clover</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in a rainbow cover –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">ark or <i>Argo</i> of celestial crowds.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">So history plays out as <i>Tauromachia</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Watch <i>Minotaur</i> succumb</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to <i>Ariadne’s</i> plumb,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Man lifted up beyond <i>Monarchia</i>;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">that <i>restoration of all things</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the servant-son proclaimed,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">chanting beside the famed</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Magdala Stone</i> (rose of sharing) –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">when <i>Clover </i>twirls in Hobo’s fingertips</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& <i>Isis</i>-eye looks from his palm;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">when JFK comes home</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& Venus blooms… & <i>Sophie Coulombe</i> skips.</span></div>
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<i>4.28.20</i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A peaceful evening in late April</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the trees barely budding</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in mild light <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>while brooding</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">darkness rings <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>the besieged people</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& this dissonance of visible <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>invisible</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">an indivisible fire <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>smoldering</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">criminals & saints <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>revealing</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">callous inhumanity<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with humble</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">solidarity <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>courageous <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>all-compassionate</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& in my flimsy gazebo</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">octagonal coracle or <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Argo</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">with Sophie’s wind-chime <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>over the gate</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">delicate oak-leaf butter-knife design</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">tingling in the calm air <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>O</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">here in my <i>Ariadne</i>-lair <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>where</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a Chartres <i>J</i> coils<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>toward her Eschaton</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& my whisper follows <i>Cautantowwit</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">through Narragansett smokehole<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>southwest, southwest </i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>while a <i>soul-</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>hart</i> sails back <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>to her monarch nest –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">that circling square dance of <i>Ocean</i> beams</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">where the spirit of Jessie Ophelia</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& Juliet Ravlin <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>abide in Thee</i> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>&</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Eternity</i>, <i>O</i> <i>Eternity</i>! cries Roger Williams</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& you lift your agate lamp, <i>Psyche</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">like a fiddlehead <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in Holy-Land</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& the <i>soeur-coulombe</i> of the<i> </i>Son</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of Man<i> </i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>swerves <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with a shining eye</span></div>
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<i>4.27.20</i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">SIMPLE SPACE</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Henry was just an American poet,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">not well-known, born</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in Minneapolis… a plain-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">speaking, ordinary place, a cold spot</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">on the planet.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He had his talents</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& his quirks – his great</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">advantages, pensive disquiet,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the serious focus of his mind, his diffidence…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">but none of these things mattered in the end.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Poetry is neither marketplace</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">nor museum.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is a simple space</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">for flighty conversation, set to sound;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a fatal stage, a public theater</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">where fantasy rings true –</span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">YHWH</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> appears to you</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">disguised as sister, holy fool, butler…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">anything but king (or slave-herder).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">King David plucked his harp,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">made his obeisance sharp</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& clear – </span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">YHWH</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i> is holier</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i></i></span><br /></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>than I</i>, <i>or any man on earth</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Henry drew back the curtain.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">In his poem, all was done –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>la vida es sueño</i>… from Fort Worth</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to Dallas is but a short drive.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Righteous ones must die</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">until the message (<i>IN RI</i>) bears</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">fruit – honey flows from her beehive.</span></div>
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<i>4.25.20</i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">HIGH JUBILEE</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">As the flashy plumage of the peacocks</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">contrasts with the somber wall</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of a hunchbacked cathedral… so</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the worldly chit-chat of the literati mocks</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the stark lofty simplicity</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of a mountain crossroad –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">where a mule bites goad</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">with gritted teeth (stubborn humility).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& I think of those high stony passes</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of Armenia tonight</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">as I foot my way, right</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">back to bright horseplay of Itasca</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>primavera</i> springs.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Up there, young</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Ojibwe (generation after</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">generation) took the fast</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of separation from the world (a brave-sprung</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">discipline) – <i>& he awoke & found it truth</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">So (as I inch toward the close</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of my rheumy, 8-years’</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>rêve</i>-glose) I want to emulate that youth</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& drink the clear spring water, sing my fast</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">manifest the rabbit frame</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">these longish footprints form…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">untwist my Huckleberry ruse at last.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Tell me what is a human soul & spirit</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>& you will say what I mean</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>What they have always been</i> –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>a knot of everlasting life, the whit-</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>sun wedding of the nodding twain.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Theseus</i>, <i>Ariadne</i>… <i>Adam</i>,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Eve</i>… –<i> til Jesus came</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>& lifted every limb to Paradise</i> (<i>again</i>).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>All’s figures</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Here’s a 4-leaf clover;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">twirl it between your fingers.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">See where Hobo lingers,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">lost in his maze… only a cavernous nave</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">overhead (synagogue of <i>Always-There</i>).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Can you conceptualize</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the structure of the Bible?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Is</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">your mind glazed yet, by the seven spare</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">sparks of Pentecost?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Has the Spirit</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">settled upon you as a dove</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& vaulted you to eaves of love?</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">This is the salt that fires each aspirant</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& burns away the dross around the urn –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">kindling Dante, Roger Williams –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">forging those adamant amalgams</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">melding heaven-earth, sacred-profane…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">prophetic copper work of Providence.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">For the covenant of God</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">with Man is happy seed-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">grain of the common good – equivalence</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of Golden Rule & last commitment;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">liberty from tyranny</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">is predicated on glory… high</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Jubilee of restoration (in a dreamer’s tent).</span></div>
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<i>4.24.20</i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">OFF PLYMOUTH</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>In the beginning was the Word</i>, &… <i>there is</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>never an end to the writing of books</i>…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the Gospel according to Borges.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Ouroboros </i>(in a whirl of discourse).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Hamlet with Mousetrap shattering the frame</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">cannot escape his web.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The python in the grass… <i>aye</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>there’s the rub</i> (poison in the game).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& yet a fresh wind flows off Plymouth</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of a morning… <i>Mayflower</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">or <i>Normandie</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Your</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>sister-dove </i>Hermione fluttered her moth-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">wings, molted to monarch, starry swallowtail;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the <i>Constitution</i> of your dream</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">became a Greek trireme (</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: Menlo; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">☧</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">shrouded in sunny spray like fiery hail.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& at the end of the song, & the late Romance</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">when the players are packing up</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">when the ferris wheel slows to a stop</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& flickering stars turn in remote silence</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">then the word grows simple <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>salt</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">shines in its Voronezh barrel</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">your father <i>Truth</i> walks parallel</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">beside you <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>& from a dim-lit vault</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in that Ravenna sepulcher, a Jordan</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">river-god accompanies the Dove</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the Baptist solemnizes <i>Love</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>on Earth</i> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>anoints a lowly serving-man</span></div>
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<i>4.23.20</i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">HARLORN NINT</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The tiny Russian church on Franklin Avenue</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">like an Easter toy box</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">– St. Pantaleimon – is</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">slowly, slowly, expanding in size (cinnamon-blue</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">eggshell transept… more light from East).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& this is <i>Sirin</i>-Nabokov’s birthday;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">my mother’s interest led me</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to find him too; <i>Pnin</i>, <i>Pale Fire</i>, a kind of yeast</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">for hilarious risings into Harlorn Nint</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(you sense what he meant).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>&</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">never mind, supercilious gent,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">that I myself am bumptious Pantaloon –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(hint, hint).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Her ocarina loon-call</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">from Petersburg bridge</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">stays here, with me; the edge</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">has never left my raven-knife; Hope’s all.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We saw the Pantaleon window, painting light</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">across the massive maze</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">at Chartres.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He was</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a Nicomedian healer-martyr, “all-compassionate”;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the tromping Emperor (sick Pantalone</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">himself) despised his expertise.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Some judgement-grave (not nice)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">whorls in a spiral from Big Muddy Zone;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the clay wheel of America is heavy</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">as concrete.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I set my seal</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">across him swamp-gray dollar bill –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the <i>eye of Providence</i> over the levy</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>*</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">dealt by Pharaoh.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Each eye shall be</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">flooded with Cairo salt</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">when Black Elk’s figure 8</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">echoes (6 ways) Ravenna’s <i>quay Rhody</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& then the Isis-eye of that palm-print</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">curls into acorn coracle…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">green glint of dovecote-oracle</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(Ionian emerald, honey-gold & mint)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">when two wheels meld in one almond</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& a blood-red waxen overlay</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(the shattering of JFK)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">molts Newport ships to ancient Trebizond.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I set my seal there, in a double ring</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">where the canoe binds <i>equilibria</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">– Gateway curving to Cahokia</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& up & down, from Delta to the spring.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It is a Janus-face – past & future</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">reconciled there, pain</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& hope.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Because the <i>vin</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>et pain</i> of his free-will suture</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">like that flint beak of Mandelstam, reaching</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">into the wound, to heal</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">will reconcile <i>Love</i> & <i>the Real</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">with a Redemption already achieved (teaching</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of Cullmann, as in <i>Pushkin & Scriabin</i>).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& so the grail-stone of the eucharist</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">whence the 4 Eden-streams will burst</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">marks twain upon our Mississippi spin.</span></div>
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<i>4.22.20</i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-47782444803694007512020-04-22T00:15:00.000-04:002020-04-22T00:15:57.521-04:00only an echo of Jerusalem<div class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin-left: 67.5px;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">SPEECH IMPEDIMENT</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Uncanny quiet over the face of the earth</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">when a plague wind blows</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">like a Sabbath no one chose.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">All the crumpled greed, the burnt-up wrath.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The painter paints, the poet bodies forth</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">rehearsals of embottled ships.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Righteous <i>Ironsides</i> in death-grips,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">waves of evil crashing each wake-froth.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We recall the speech impediment of Moses,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">his lame stuttering.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The stubborn mule, his bawling;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">how the moth anticipates his metamorphoses.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The beard of flame, the copper serpent…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>apotropes</i> for lamb</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">muzzled to kingdom come –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the mute goodness, whose light is spent</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in painful denouements of selfless love.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We know these weary nurses</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of the commonweal.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Sursum corda</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">you sweet Cordelias, sent from above.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Amid stark silence of a vacant Mass</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">my murmurs of a restoration</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">seem almost abomination.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">You must judge what ought to come to pass.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">These incoherent old man’s mutterings.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Only an echo of Jerusalem</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to come.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Your Jubilee, </span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">I AM</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">brilliant integrity of all good things.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>We hold these truths to be self-evident –</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Williams' <i>Carta </i>(so <i>fair</i>,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>kind</i>,<i> true</i>).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Coke’s tender care</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">breathing to Providence (love’s fundament).</span></div>
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<i>4.21.20</i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">WISDOM-BENCH</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">He was muttering in his sleep the whole time.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Of things seen & unseen,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">emblems of earth & heaven – like</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a man in his grave, waiting for his bones to rhyme</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">again.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His friend Hobo came from Ohio</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">whistling Carl Sandburg tunes,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Vachel Lindsay refrains;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">his duds were dusty, raggedy, his health so-so;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">he only loved the calm of the constant River</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& the wide distant plains</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& the ache in his heart.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pains</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of hard living made him smile (<i>it goes on forever</i>).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">He himself was an old Yankee man.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Some Quaker dream tilted his mind</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to the redemption of a world unkind,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& mad with rage – a providential plan.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The dream came out of West Branch</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">one fine day – the black marble</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of Isis (planted at the Memorial)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a kind of emblem for her Wisdom-Bench</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>chaired in the adamant of Time</i>, as Walt</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">declared.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>& <i>we are Hagia Sophia</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>with a million eyes</i>, maybe… a sigh</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">instilled by otherworldly grace.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A bolt</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of lightning from the Thunderbird.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thus</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Wisdom is justified in all her children –</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">settled on her lap of twinkling obsidian</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">beneath the steady circling of milky stars.</span></div>
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<i>4.20.20</i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">HEARTH-FIRE</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I stepped outside of the quarantine</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">early this morning (one quiet</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">crystalline April moment).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A mourning dove, sequestered in a pine</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">nearby, was practicing, solo (<i>adagio</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>con molto sentimento d’affetto</i>).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& therefore do not send to know</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">for whom the bell tolls – <i>Adios</i>, <i>amigo</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We don’t hear them much now, here</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">as once in Rhode Island.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& it’s hard to comprehend</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">how time-space telescopes into the mirror</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(O my clay-rimmed, worm-riddled heart</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& soul)… yet her melancholy</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">plaint echoes, in me</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the solitude that ripens all my art.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We do not belong just to ourselves.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">We are part of the main.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I am a half-hitch in a seine</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">flung from an ark, whose kelson delves</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">across the Black Sea of the universe.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Borne by embattled star-murmurs,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">this <i>pressure on the king</i> spurs</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">martyrs to out-run the royal curse –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">so Socrates & Tommy More, Jesus</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">absolve the men who killed them;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">so their normative love-law anthem</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">sighs out warm fire into cold sacrifice.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The distinct end of poetry is beauty.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& beauty is <i>wholeness</i>, <i>radiance</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>& harmony</i>, per Stephen Dedalus</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">– out of Aquinas (Aristotle too, maybe).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Beauty, rounding on itself… dimensional</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& resonant.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Unlike the trodden</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">thoroughfare of explanation,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">abstraction (utilitarian, impersonal)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& then Truth stands there, facing you –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">smiling, breathing! – the <i>mimesis</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">resolves at its moral crisis – the</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>peripeteia</i> of heroine & hero flow through</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& it’s all too real, this thunderstorm</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in your heart – when Lear</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& Cordelia meet again (in fear</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& trembling) at the obliteration of all form</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">all kindly grace, all courtesy & charity</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">beneath tromping beast-breath</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& mincing m’carnal serpent-teeth</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">– until you hear the tingle of the mercy-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">bell (so slight, so bright, so still).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I would defend the poets’ cause;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">manifest those subtle laws</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(human & divine) by which they fulfill</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">their milky icons, walking through stone</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">as in an Easter season</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">at the <i>Great Sabbath</i> Even</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">when Mary goes to the tomb (afraid, alone)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& meets the shy gardener (<i>Ever-Living One</i>).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">So I would elicit my own</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">testimony (prodigal son) – &</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">body forth a pregnant Henry maze, spun</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">from that seedy Emperor in mid-July</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">who loved <i>Our American Cousin –</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">swan-diving into Frisco basin,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">branding his heart with fiery <i>Never-Die.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& under the aegis of that orthodox St. Maximus</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I would retrace the delicate brushwork</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Marsden Hartley (in his <i>Moby Dick</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">memorial) marked <i>33</i> – sea-terminus</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">or <i>Ocean</i>-birth, <i>Jonah</i> or sepulcher…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">black hole or vanishing point,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">centering thin, small (paint-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">brush) horsehair… your <i>Jerusalem Chamber</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Everything resolving now, in the master play</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">when Prince Hal meets his father</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">– O recreant & fickle feather!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Arrogant betrayer!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This your day, boy –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">clasp your virulent & blood-soaked crown!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">For the <i>rêve-songe</i> in the river-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">valley of our <i>May-King</i> quivers</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in a V-wake – groans with a birth – your own!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">When the <i>Eagle</i> of mute Joachim molts into <i>Dove</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& Mammon-prone America restores</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Columbia – </i>& when the sun soars</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in the oak-bole, & Cordelia mimes… </span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">LOVE</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">.</span></div>
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Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-87585312858174164382020-04-16T15:04:00.000-04:002020-04-16T15:04:52.486-04:00for Notre Dame<div class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin-left: 72px;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">PACIFIC ARC</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">April air, so clear today.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The quiet sea-</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">blue sky.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Clear as that great bell</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">ringing in Paris – for the swell</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of hearts, for Notre Dame (in her infirmity).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">In Minneapolis, as everywhere, the plague</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">confines each to monastic cell.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">For contemplation, just as well…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">for dreams, these patchworks made with rag.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">My own dream surfaced in a film – <i>Deserto Rosso</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(M. Antonioni).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monica Vitti, in</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">moss-green – damaged <i>angelo-mammi</i>;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">her little boy, gone lame (<i>povero bambino</i>)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">at her ceramic studio; those indecisive men</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">full of morose indifference</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">battered by commercial arrogance,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">industrial violence… & the wistful omen</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of the desolate cathedral (windswept, hollow</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Sant’Apollinare).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Alighieri</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">stood in this nave once; calmly</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">pondered the tall wraiths, gleaming in shadow –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Justinian, & Theodora… all the martyrs</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in procession, holding their lamps</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">lifted, unmoving… lambs</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in a moss-green meadow, by the still waters.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Just so each poet carries in their heart</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">like robin’s egg in oak leaf nest</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">a Paradise, made roughly manifest –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">as Langland’s <i>Imaginativa</i> would impart</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">dream-visions of the human Temple</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">hidden there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So <i>Henry Church</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">would make a supreme sketch</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">on local limestone, an American example –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">one Venn diamond, rimmed with Jonah-pen</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">borrowed from humble Maximus</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">whose subtlest <i>partitas</i> mass</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the radiant matrix of divine & human</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(union of the two-in-one, distinct</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">without division or confusion).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Curl, then, into this acorn</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">nest of light, this Rose of every precinct –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Apollinaire & Mary Magdalen <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>together</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">witness at the sepulcher</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Grace attentive <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>through Hell-sulfur</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Love revive <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on silver loon-feather</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">When the local materials begin to coalesce</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& the collage takes shape & form</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& the design of Maximus, his dream</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">translates (in waves) our constitutional mess –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">for that incarnate Union of the two-in-one</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">implies a like distinction between</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Church & State – salvation</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">neither by Emperor nor Pope, but won</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">deep within each living human soul</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in liberty of conscience</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">loving freedom of response –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">so that the invisible <i>Churnagogue</i> is whole</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& multi-confessional – universal – hidden</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">like Micòl’s almond canoe</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in the garage, in Ferrara (you</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">know what I mean).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So we begin again</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">where we ended before – in dreams</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in shadow-lands of fiction</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in the feathery benediction</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">under that granite palm of Roger Williams</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in the old town of Providence, the rose</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">rood of Rhode Island</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">with an origami flower-bend</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">beside the humble stream of San Francesco</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">flowing to sky-tinged Gulf, flowing to Sea</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">under a firm Pacific arc</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">lit by candescent sunset spark</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">far off there <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>breathing <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with you & me</span></div>
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<i>4.16.20</i><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></div>
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Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-3918812805195158322020-04-15T18:09:00.000-04:002020-04-15T18:18:02.298-04:00down around Kay-Rho<div class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin-left: 72px;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">SALT-LICK</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Prince Henry Hal, like a latter-day Latrobe</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">went surveying his great property</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">in swamps – following <i>Path P</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">down around <i>Kay-Rho</i>, mapping his globe.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">& he was most lost.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Loster than lost.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">His sidekick Hobo sighed.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Said –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>this palm at the end of your mind</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>holds an eye that glows</i>, <i>a wave-tossed</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>moon</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Pearl</i>, <i>embossed with diamond</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>& ruby</i>… <i>emeralds for eyelashes</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>There</i>,<i> where kingfisher splashes</i> –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>a quatrefoil rose window</i>, <i>set in almonds</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Notre Dame burned down today, Hobo.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The blaze destroyed the spire,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">almost the whole… – <i>F’ sho</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Fire</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>will do that</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>But there’s another one</i>, <i>y’know</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>We already passed that house</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Down </i>MLK</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Way, <i>on </i>Black Elk Boulevard</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(<i>in Buffalo</i>).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Look hard</i>,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Henry</i> – <i>you’ll see him sign the X-tree</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>with his finger</i>… <i>mark the six trails</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>like a phosphor Southern Cross</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>His medicine mends every loss</i> –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>’twas his</i> last full measure <i>split the rails</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>like lightning</i>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Now the brave who give</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>their lives to heal the sick</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>come to his green clover salt-lick</i> –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>circle the hearth-fire –</i> <i>bright, contemplative</i>.</span></div>
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Henry Gouldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06763188178644726622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3966360.post-24142766708483641362020-04-14T23:32:00.000-04:002020-04-14T23:41:50.569-04:00least coin of Union provenance<div class="p1" style="font-family: "Iowan Old Style"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin-left: 72px;">
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">WING-BEAT</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The American poem makes do with what’s</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">right there.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Like a penny in a well</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">or Peto <i>trompe l’oeuil</i>.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Reminiscences of 1865… hook for hats</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">on an absinthe wall.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Unlike electricate</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">sweet Alighieri, burbling Italian</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">honey-rhyme into his Pythian</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">pylon – a vertical refulgent ziggurat,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">as opposed to our stretched-horizontal</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">(catenary) system of safety</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">nets (dangling from Frisco Bay</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">to DC).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Quipu knots of Neanderthal</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">design – z-twist, s-twist in a 3-ply</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">twine, spun with dry grass</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">or pine bark from <i>Abri du Maras</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">anchoring light matrices of solidarity.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Ah, nested Rose of Dante’s <i>alta fantasia</i>!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Here lies a homely Providence</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">cresting seven hills, dense</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">with ignoble Henry’s <i>disjecta membra.</i></span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Plain facts of what happened, what was</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">made manifest in clay.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bearing</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">pinned-up mementos (sprung</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Ford’s Theatre tickets… Jimi Hendrix</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">poster?) – cornered in a coign</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of copper maize, a corn</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">maze.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dropped in a forlorn</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">well off North Main St. – least coin</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>*</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">of Union provenance – silver Penny’s</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">golden meaning (Love</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">welded to treasure-trove…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">chaste equilibrium of all equalities).</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The gift that unfolds at the heart of things –</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Francesca’s golden poncho (Peruvian)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">spun at <i>Sheep’s Clothing</i> (on Wickenden)</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">for Dave the California bard (who springs</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">from Rhody roots himself).<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Gift</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">that is already there in the earth,</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">shining quietly… an <i>Ocean</i> mirth</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">salted with grief & everlasting life.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">In the heart of remorse & gratitude</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">rose memories well…</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the flaming throne planted in Hell</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">transmuted to Paris park-bench habitude.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I know whom to thank for this Rose Jubilee.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Stony Magdalen, in Galilee</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">rolled away, set free</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the Rabbi of a rescued Julie-bee.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Recovery</i>!</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">He was already gone, but she showed us</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the way.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>& the catenary</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">curve of <i>Argo’s</i> aerie</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">twinkles with lights, up there – a million eyes</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">suddenly flash joy from blue-black sky</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">pouring Milky Way & Ocean Stream.</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>La vida es sueño</i> – life is a dream;</span></div>
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<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">the wing-beat of <i>Thunderbird</i> only a sigh.</span></div>
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