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Fantastic! I started reading
Posted on Mon, 13 Jan 2020
Fantastic! I started reading this once before and was distracted by something. I love that middle section, too. It carries so much wisdom. I've read and re-read Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and some good commentary on it. This whole "fate" thing. But...
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How much joy can a person
Posted on Wed, 29 Jan 2020
How much joy can a person take?!
Read full commentPosted in Not dark yet
Almost felt like I'd been out
Posted on Thu, 30 Jan 2020
Almost felt like I'd been out there myself, Rhiannon. It captures all the essentials - especially the just being there.
Read full commentPosted in Grey-Day rambling
Hi Richard. I'm terribly
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2020
Hi Richard. I'm terribly sorry to hear this news. Love to you both/all.
Your poem is beautiful and well executed. It really evokes the relationship, sense of place and that truly North American poetic voice that I so enjoy reading.
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Read full commentPosted in For Scotty 1967-2020
Sorry Di. I missed your
Posted on Sat, 25 Jan 2020
Sorry Di. I missed your question.
The Phoenician is something/one that/who appears in Eliot's "The Waste Land".
It refers to a drowned sailor.
Eliot pinches it from earlier work and probably from works he read about fertility...
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Grand!
Posted on Wed, 15 Jan 2020
Grand!
Read full commentPosted in The Low Men
My pleasure. Clearer tonight.
Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2020
My pleasure. Clearer tonight. The stars are looking lovely.
Read full commentPosted in Wolf moon
Obscured by clouds. Story of
Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2020
Obscured by clouds. Story of my life. Good memories of sitting with fellow adolescents around a record player, though.
Mmmmm. I like that last line. Insecurities a-go-go. We poor humans.
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I was looking at willows
Posted on Wed, 08 Jan 2020
I was looking at willows recently (late summer) having forgotten momentarily whether they shed their leaves. Again, a searching, penetrating and detailed description, well wrought.
Read full commentPosted in There is hope here
But what a poet.
Posted on Sat, 04 Jan 2020
But what a poet.
Read full commentPosted in To the belly of an osprey
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