Saturday, January 8, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Unlikely Figures of Speech
They wanted
The inconceivable—
A world
Where each word
Would be human
Enough to be
Like you and me.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Increasing Your Odds for Survival in the Animal Kingdom
My three-year-old niece
Wants me to draw her favorite
Animal—a wolf—so I draw a wolf;
That’s nice, she says, and then asks me
To draw a boy and a girl,
So I draw a boy and a girl.
Looking at the pair and pursing her lips
In thought, she then asks me if I could please
Draw them holding swords, just in case
Her favorite is thinking
Nasty thoughts.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of a City
No lyric poetry here, just pure Ionian tragedy:
By Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, Newmark Press, N.Y., 1998 (Second reprint of Faber edition, London, 1972).
After reading the introduction and the closing chapter here, get the book and see for yourself how little has changed in the world of diplomacy.
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.
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