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Poetry Friday

HEROIC SIMILE

When the swordsman fell in Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai in the gray rain, in Cinemascope and the Tokugawa dynasty, he fell straight as a pine, he fell as Ajax fell in Homer in chanted dactyls and the tree was so huge the woodsman returned for two days to that lucky place before he was [...]

Poetry Friday

FINAL SOLILOQUY OF THE INTERIOR PARAMOUR

Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good.

This is, therefore, the intensest rendezvous. It is in that thought that we collect ourselves, Out of all the indifferences, into one thing:

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Poetry Friday

IMAGINING STARRY

The place of language is the place between me and the world of presences I have lost —complex country, not flat. Its elements free- float, coherent for luck to come across; its lines curve as in a mental orrery implicit with stars in active orbit, only their slowness or swiftness lost to [...]

Poetry Friday

SONNET 100

In night when colors all to black are cast, Distinction lost, or gone down with the light; The eye a watch to inward senses placed, Not seeing, yet still having powers of sight,

Gives vain alarums to the inward sense, Where fear stirred up with witty tyranny, Confounds all powers, and thorough self-offense, [...]

Poetry Friday

MERCY RETURNS ME

A woman I want — An honour I covet — A place where I want my mind to dwell — Then Mercy returns me To the triad And the crisis of the song. SWEET TIME

How sweet time feels when it’s too late

and you don’t have to follow her swinging [...]

Quote of the Day

Yeah, yeah, yeah … quotes of the day, two days in a row. Deal with it.

SWEET TIME

How sweet time feels when it’s too late

and you don’t have to follow her swinging hips

all the way into your dying imagination.

  — Leonard Cohen (b. 1934), Canadian poet, novelist and singer-songwriter.