Comforting
To know poets are
As good as their word—
It’s their politics
That’s disturbing.
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
À Rebours
Concealed
In the golden autumn
Leaves of the Judas tree,
There is a solitary
Goldfinch
Whose every note threatens
Betrayal.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Morning
The village was a hard place--a few white squares against
the mountain. No wells, no streams, a taste of cisterns on
the widow's lips who had brought him food--white cheese,
hard gray bread, black olives. She watched him eat and
told him to stay for the cool hours of evening and the
morning that would come alive like the light moving along
her lips now.
(From Sentences, 1976)
the mountain. No wells, no streams, a taste of cisterns on
the widow's lips who had brought him food--white cheese,
hard gray bread, black olives. She watched him eat and
told him to stay for the cool hours of evening and the
morning that would come alive like the light moving along
her lips now.
(From Sentences, 1976)
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Metaphor
Wallace,
When we got to the moor,
We saw the one thing still
Moving on that mossy-like surface
Was a waterlogged semaphore.
When we got to the moor,
We saw the one thing still
Moving on that mossy-like surface
Was a waterlogged semaphore.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Today as April 21, 1970
Who will calculate for us the cost of our decision to forget?
--George Seferis
For the past
three years, she's been at it,
nagging as I descend
the steps into the garden, bent
over, bringing the sky with me:
Elias, where's the sun? You forgot
the sun again. You know how
we depend on you.
Hag. How she stumbles
in her garden, blistering her knees
against the rocks, while I sit here,
idle, and think about it:
"You know how we depend on you..."
I should have been an owl in daylight
or a marble face dumb in the night.
It would have been easier then,
hating her.
(From Sentences, 1976)
NB: Today is the 36th anniversary of the fall of the repressive, brutal and despicable Greek junta which seized power on April 21, 1967; true to form, the US was one of the first countries--perhaps the first--to recognize the dictators.
--George Seferis
For the past
three years, she's been at it,
nagging as I descend
the steps into the garden, bent
over, bringing the sky with me:
Elias, where's the sun? You forgot
the sun again. You know how
we depend on you.
Hag. How she stumbles
in her garden, blistering her knees
against the rocks, while I sit here,
idle, and think about it:
"You know how we depend on you..."
I should have been an owl in daylight
or a marble face dumb in the night.
It would have been easier then,
hating her.
(From Sentences, 1976)
NB: Today is the 36th anniversary of the fall of the repressive, brutal and despicable Greek junta which seized power on April 21, 1967; true to form, the US was one of the first countries--perhaps the first--to recognize the dictators.
Air of Gravity
Raindrops tripping the light
Fantastic?
On high tree limbs, light-
Headed wind brings them
Down to earth again.
Fantastic?
On high tree limbs, light-
Headed wind brings them
Down to earth again.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Kismet
desert storm
. . . . . . . . . . . .
mirages err
or ages speak
mirrors terror
. . . . . . . . . . . .
crushed the bones
jaws of asses
do not clatter
. . . . . . . . . . . .
thus of error
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