"I can never get people to understand that poetry is the expression of excited passion, and that there is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?"
-- Lord Byron, in a letter to Thomas Moore, 5 July 1821
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"Kipling for Keith: A Tribute" ........ 1961-2011 (click for the link)
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"Kipling for Keith: A Tribute" ........ 1961-2011 (click for the link)
About Me
- Matt Duckworth
- San Francisco; East Bay, CA, United States
- Heed the reefs not yet charted Seek that green isle beyond design
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- Might and Minotaur
- Yeats and Pound: "Lake Isle" Poems
- Land-Shark, Creekside
- William Dunbar's "Lament for the Makers"
- Howard Nemerov's "The Makers"
- A Cold Wind Blowing -- At The Ford
- Marching Orders
- Park-Time
- Land-Shark: Two Views
- Charm: Deer In The Wood
- A Cold Wind Blowing
- John Buchan: "A Barndoor Fowl"?
- Reprise: Ophelia II
- Reprise: Ophelia
- Bowl: Diver In Clay
- Wet Clay: Moon-Man
- Fox and Shark: In Progress
- Shakespeare: "If It Were Done When 'Tis Done"
- Brecca, Bull From The Water
- Seamus Heaney's "In The Attic"
- The New Tea Mug
- Ego and Alter Egos
- Reindeer Games: Swimming In The Rain
- B Is For Bear; B Is For Bowl
- Lucky, Swimming
- The River-Ogre's Blues
- Keith: The Fisher of Tales
- My Pal Keith: Happy 51st!
- Barry Lopez: "River Notes" and Questing
- Tomales Bay: Night-Paddle
- Berberick: Hunting, Hunted
- The River-Ogre
- Wet Clay: Shark, Fox, And So Forth
- Byron: Shaving Tips
- Keepsakes and Conjurations
- Northrup Frye: Imagination Trumps Experience
- Wordsworth and Byron: "The After-Vacancy"
- On Watch
- Clay and Stone: A Miscellany
- Coffee Break . . . Outside
- "You Too Are Mortal"
- The Man In The Clay Suit
- Flying (Corn)Fish
- David Wagoner: "Lost"
- Hummingbird, Grooming
- "A Seed-Sower": M.C. Richards
- M.C. Richards: Being Passionate, Defined
- Reprise: "And If I Laugh At Any Mortal Thing"
- Hummingbirds: Yard-Pals
- Byron: "Cunning In Mine Overthrow"
- Byron: "A Small Drop Of Ink"
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Tattoo #3
My favorite word--garsecg--from the Old English Beowulf is a kenning or poetic riddle-word for the sea. It means "the spear-man," perhaps the echo of a figure like the Norse Aegir or some other surly northern Neptune. In other texts, garsecg seems to be an adjective meaning "sea-like," "stormy" or "tempestuous."
"Oh Malachi Malarkey"
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