Saturday, June 9, 2012
The Tide Is Low: Mask and Kelp
Triton Beached (detail).
Perhaps an ancient Greek poet can help us here:
Desire the limb-loosener,
O my companion,
Has beat me down.
--Archilochos
(Translated by Guy Davenport in 7 Greeks.)
Or, perhaps, we should recall a poem by W.B. Yeats I've posted once before here.
His poem begins . . .
I am worn out with dreams;
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams . . . .
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