Friday, July 6, 2012

Ambivalence


When night creatures start
To stir in your sleep, their eyes too

Close for comfort.

8 comments:

  1. Vassilis,

    I think you've made the most convincing case (in poetry) for the Cartesian nightmare we live in

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  2. The warm breathing of a night creature upon one's face, the eyes presumably up very close in the dark.

    Well, at least this cannot be accused of being cold comfort. Nor remote for that matter.

    No. That is to say -- Yes.

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  3. Tag question time: The little critters never leave us alone, do they? Or perhaps they do, don't they?

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  4. Rilke (also) had something to say about this "creature" :

    [Neighbors]
    "There exists a creature who is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes, you hardly notice it and immediately forget again. But as soon as it somehow, invisibly, gets into your ears, it begins to develop, it hatches, and cases have been known where it has penetrated into the brain and flourish­ es there devastatingly, like pneumococci in dogs which gain entrance through the nose.
    This creature is your neighbor."
    -­Ranier Maria Rilke Ahead of All Parting: p.266

    I used this (& a Giacometti) quote as prelude to book one of my NEIGHBORS
    which is on Joey Madia's New Mystics site (along with the other 5 books of Neighbors...

    as usual and par exe lance you tend towards saying so much via so few words... a laudable trait/attitude that requires precision and a large vocabulary....

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  5. And you my friend are very generous with your largesse of kind words, for which I'm grateful; I also thank you for the wonderful Rilke quote.

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  6. not to kick-the-can-down-the-road much farther but to:


    Neighbors and "creatures" that get into your mind and become poems/art / images :
    get into ones mind...
    just in case you might find the time and the interest
    to see how that Rilke quote 'pinned down' Neighbors
    all 6 books are presented here down at the bottom
    as pdf's:

    http://www.newmystics.com/lit/EdBaker.html

    which i had thought were going to be published as a
    series of paper .... things....
    now ? pdf's as sent are put up on blogs/sites as though that constitutes "publishing" ?

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  7. Neighbors and "creatures" that get into your mind and become poems/art / images :
    get into ones mind...
    just in case you might find the time and the interest
    to see how that Rilke quote 'pinned down' Neighbors
    all 6 books are presented here down at the bottom
    as pdf's:

    http://www.newmystics.com/lit/EdBaker.html

    which i had thought were going to be published as a
    series of paper .... things....
    now ? pdf's as sent are put up on blogs/sites as though that constitutes "publishing" ?

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  8. Thanks for the "neighborly" link, Ed--will knock on their door pronto to see if any "thing" answers; as for the "revolution" in internet publishing, I guess I'm still a diehard Luddite who wants to feel the thing that he's reading--a dying breed, I'm afraid.

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