"Intense" because it remains very close to home; for reasons still inexplicable to me, I have no clear memories of the first four years of my life in Greece before being taken to the USA; I find myself wondering why.
I expect it might be a deeper form of memory — something that resides in the sinews and bones. At the same time, the poem feels like a memory of my own. Shared memory? Memory held in common?
It's an all too common memory for males in any culture, I imagine. "Playing war." War always "a stone's throw away," all of us working back toward Frost's "old-stone savage armed"....
Another gem.
ReplyDeleteOh, that's an intense image!
ReplyDelete"Intense" because it remains very close to home; for reasons still inexplicable to me, I have no clear memories of the first four years of my life in Greece before being taken to the USA; I find myself wondering why.
ReplyDeleteI expect it might be a deeper form of memory — something that resides in the sinews and bones. At the same time, the poem feels like a memory of my own. Shared memory? Memory held in common?
ReplyDeleteVery earthy image
ReplyDeleteIt's an all too common memory for males in any culture, I imagine. "Playing war." War always "a stone's throw away," all of us working back toward Frost's "old-stone savage armed"....
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