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ITHAKA As you set out for Ithaka hope your road is a long one, full of adventure, full of discovery. Laistrygonians, Cyclops, angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them: you’ll never find things like that on your way as long as you keep your thoughts raised high, as long as a rare excitement stirs your [...] REMEMBER, BODY … Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds where you lay, but also those desires for you, shining clearly in eyes and trembling in a voice—and some chance obstacle thwarted them. Now when everything is the past, it almost looks as if you gave yourself [...] SINCE NINE—— Half past twelve. The time has quickly passed since nine o’clock when I first turned up the lamp and sat down here. I’ve been sitting without reading, without speaking. With whom should I speak, so utterly alone within this house? The apparition of my youthful body, since nine o’clock when I first [...] HE ASKED ABOUT THE QUALITY He came out of the office where he was employed in an unimportant and poorly paid position up to eight pounds a month, with tips; when he finished his tedious work that kept him stooped all afternoon, he came out at seven, and sauntered slowly, gazing idly in the [...] THE BED The pulsing stops where time has been, The garden is snow-bound, The branches weighed dow and the paths filled in, Drifts quilt the ground. We lie soft-caught, still now it’s done, Loose-twined across the bed Like wrestling statues; but it still goes on Inside my head. — Thom Gunn (1929 – 2004), [...] |
      
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