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Comment on Poetry by Charles Simic: One of the things I’m grateful for by fencer

fencer — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:12:32 +0000

Hey, great poem… thanks for that… Miss Jones and the quiet angels and gods.

Regards

Comment on Sailing through: blessing the boats by Lucille Clifton by mary w.

mary w. — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:05:00 +0000

Another poem of a small grieving for my fish Telly
Toi Derricotte

Perhaps I should forgive
Telly for dying in my care, Just a
fish, someone said, Just

get another! Lucille said
our power becomes
greater when we lose the flesh; so,

when I poured Telly out
of his painted casket (a little wooden
egg) out over the rail of the

yellow bridge into the all
becoming, was it a miracle
that he had lived, was it a miracle?

Once, when I prayed for a sign,

God opened the closed
vault of the sky, the sun popped out
& shone directly in my face, & hail, yes,

hail started falling (in July!). I was
afraid to believe in love. God,
don’t waste your miracles on me. &

the sun went back, like a face
retreating. Telly, you are bodiless,
you are with my mother

& father. Say it wasn’t my
fault you suffered, with your little
working gills, say you forgive me.

from Prairie Schooner
Volume 82, Number 3, Fall 2008

Comment on Nothing Twice by Wislawa Szymborska by Angela

Angela — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:02:35 +0000

I also have some of her work posted up on my blog as well.

http://angelafardo.com/

Comment on Nothing Twice by Wislawa Szymborska by climbchick

climbchick — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:44:41 +0000

I am a big fan of Szymborska. I hadn’t read this particular poem and enjoyed it. Particularly the line “It’s in its nature not to say. Today is always gone tomorrow”.

Comment on When Brevity is Brilliance–Ezra Pound by fencer

fencer — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:39:25 +0000

Hi Mary,

That is a brilliant bit by Pound…

Never heard of Hempel… Enquiring mind will find out. Thanks for the educational lead from the two of you.

Regards

Comment on “For only the shadow is true” Robert Penn Warren by Bookmarks about Contrails

Bookmarks about Contrails — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:15:15 +0000

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Comment on When Brevity is Brilliance–Ezra Pound by soundofbuilding

soundofbuilding — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 02:52:30 +0000

Hey Vincent–

Housewife is one of my faves. I LOVE Hempel. Have you read all of her work?

Comment on When Brevity is Brilliance–Ezra Pound by vincent

vincent — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:31:03 +0000

agreed- see Amy Hempel

Housewife

She would always sleep with her husband and with another man in the course of the same day, and then the rest of the day, for whatever was left to her of that day, she would exploit by incanting, “French film, French film.”

Comment on When my dead father comes to visit by WISHJeopardy

WISHJeopardy — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:43:03 +0000

You are a talented writer. I also have had dreams of my deceased father that include water: plumbing, riding a water slide, etc. Some say it is due to the rebirth of my business. I hope yours is equally positive in meaning.

God bless you!

Comment on A Blessing by James Wright by Bruce Jewett

Bruce Jewett — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:11:07 +0000

Hearing this poem read by Garrison Keillor on the radio some years ago is what motivated me to try writing poetry.