Sunday, January 2, 2011

Saturday, January 1, 2011

New Year's Day, 2011: Out with the Old, In with the New One(s)









Spring, 1984 at the fountain in the mountain village of Kefalovryssi, Messenias—about 40 minutes north of Meligalas: Eleni 22, Efiniki 3, and Tasso 1, the old man in the background departing the scene? Old enough to know what it was like to be that young.

Giving and Receiving The Gift of Poetry

"I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received.”
Antonio Porchia, Voices.

Thank you Annie for reminding us of those who left us in 2010.

Friday, December 31, 2010

Bounty


Thin waning crescent
In early morning sky—
Gone by

Tomorrow,
Which sickle will glean
Which mourning eye?

—December 31, 2010


Thursday, December 30, 2010

Huuklyeand Cinquor on Poetry for Dummies

As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking, -- John, I

sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what

can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,

drive, he sd, for
christ's sake, look
out where yr going.

—Robert Creeley, “I Know a Man”


As we were

All well behind the times,
Unable to distinguish
Well-wrought poetry
From pedestrian rhyme,

Our forward-looking instructor
Gave us a crash course
On how to maneuver
Between the lines—

Would you believe it?
In no time at all,
We were so well-versed,
We drove him up a wall.

Moderator’s comments: I don’t know about Cinquor’s mentor, but mine was so forward-looking he walked to his poetry classes.





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