Causality is great. It's really good to be reading you again.
Sarah
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Causality is great. It's really good to be reading you again.
Sarah
Poignant personal honesty in Causality.
Thank You,
SP
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Thanks, everyone. "Causality" is very much a kind of pre-birthday poem -- sigh.
"Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut." -- Linda Pastan
"Small Song: Vestige"
Rough rectangle of
buttercups
marks a vanished home.
"Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut." -- Linda Pastan
Now that's a sharp observation, clearly conveyed. Thank you Howard.
I'm feeling the vibe of your work more than ever. I'm grateful to have landed in this new place and have the chance to get to know the land all around me but more intimately "my own" (for the moment anyhow -- I've noticed how immediately ambivalent I feel about the notion of ownership, but that's another story for another day) land. Of course I had to go and build these elaborate woodpiles which serve as a sudden metropolis for all of the four-legged ones to eyeball at least and I have this equally elaborate 200-year-old stone foundation into which I carefully watch all of the critter paths as they form. The paths are always more narrow than the critters, don't you think? And some critters are undoubtedly more adorable than others.
Anyhoo.
I saw one of the bass mailboxes the other day and thought of you.
Jane
Realism.
Hi,
I like the way the title works with the image of the buttercups. It plays with words as if vestige is a synonym for that specific image. Also, a lovely image, and it's nice to think of a home leaving traces mapped out by meadow flowers.
Sarah
Hi, Howard,
"Small Song: Vestige" - There's a lot just down the road from me where a house used to be, but was torn down and blackberry vines outline the foundation, so this is a vivid piece. I'm picturing a house destroyed by a storm, the buttercups the only marker left that one was once there. Buttercups, like most flowers, have meaning and symbolism; in the case of yellow buttercups, they symbolize joy, new beginnings, and general happiness, so I also see hope.
Donna
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Thank you, everyone; I always appreciate the time y'all invest in reading and commenting.
I've had to be away most of today; I will try to catch up tomorrow.
Thanks, again.
"Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut." -- Linda Pastan
"Small Song: Blitzkrieg"
Pecan tassels free
agony:
dense clouds of pollen.
"Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut." -- Linda Pastan
Vestiges is my fave so far, and buttercups have been wetting my eyes. I'm brought to thinking of the loyalty of animals somehow, never leaving some places/people.
I love the thought that a tassel can be agonizing.
Thanks!
SP
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Very effective agony-pause. I don't know pecan tassles, but they sound painful (and tree blossom hayfever is the worst)
Sarah
Hi, Howard,
"Small Song: Blitzkrieg" - Around here it's the fir and spruce pollen that cover my car with yellow dust; those are the only pollen that gets to me when I out for a walk. "Blitzkrieg" is the perfect description for the release of the evil plume.
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Blitzkrieg of pollen!
Good show Howard.
Jane
Realism.
I want to apologize for simply disappearing in the midst of 7/7s last month; there are times when real life sucks at the worst possible moment.
I am going to give it another go this month, hopefully with better results. And with something different from lunes this time (maybe).
"Poetry is not a code to be broken but a way of seeing with the eyes shut." -- Linda Pastan
just commending your efforts a few days ago
to return.
Even if you can't, it's good to know you wanted/want to be here.
best of these days,
SP
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