Showing posts with label Heart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heart. Show all posts
Thursday, May 28, 2020

What's-the-Story?

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Story : characters in action in a setting through time. That's how I process everything. Give me a poem, any poem, and I look for t...
Monday, April 16, 2018

Reverberation

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Years ago I heard a federal agent describe his mistake in a major crime investigation in a way that broke my heart because that mistake had ...
Saturday, December 9, 2017

"Why Should I Envy Such Freedom"

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PENELOPE'S STUBBORNNESS A bird comes to the window. It's a mistake to think of them as birds, they are so often messengers. Th...
Sunday, August 6, 2017

Clough: "In the Depths"

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IN THE DEPTHS It is not sweet content, be sure, That moves the nobler Muse to song, Yet when could truth come whole and pure From hea...
Wednesday, January 6, 2016

Reading Properly: All In Play and At Play

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Ideally, reading properly is much like living properly: moment by moment, responsively; attuned to everything but also with due consid...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Motley

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She's a bit of a worrier these days, poor dear.  And we'd just spent about an hour together, she sleeping on my lap and me readin...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Exploration's Joy

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When I first found and read Charles De Lint's "The Little Country" back in grad school--on the heels of De Lint's "...
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Encouraging Apt Engagement?

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When I encounter art of any sort,  I find myself with these questions:  What am I feeling now? What is the piece saying? What's th...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Rembrandt's Mirror; Facetious Echoes

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I snapped this selfie to check the lighting from this direction at this time of day, and I both laughed at how that mask and I happ...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Two More From Brendan Kennelly

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UNION When salmon swarmed in the brown tides And cocks raised their lusty din And her heart beat like a wild bird's heart, She left...
Monday, September 16, 2013

Remembering Rudi: A Gallery

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Rest in peace, dear me-orange-boy-o: You fought the good fight against cancer for ma...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Linda Gregg's "All The Different Kinds Of Years"

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ARRIVING AGAIN AND AGAIN WITHOUT NOTICING I remember all the different kinds of years, angry, or brokenhearted, or afraid. I rememb...
Thursday, April 11, 2013

Bob Mould's "Very Temporary": Very Intense

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VERY TEMPORARY If you want it to be, you've got to stand here by me But if you wanted to leave, go on and make yourself free If you ...
Saturday, April 6, 2013

Surrey's "Green Waves"

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COMPLAINT OF THE ABSENCE OF HER LOVER BEING UPON THE SEA O happy dames! that may embrace The fruit of your delight, Help to bewail the ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Shadows of the Past: Advice

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"Think harder; write better." -- from one of my favorite professors to the English 47B class as a whole; he was a tad frustrated ...
Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Byron: "My Soul Is Dark"

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I My soul is dark -- Oh! quickly string           The harp I yet can brook to hear; And let thy gentle fingers fling           Its melt...
Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Moya Cannon: "The Hidden Rhythms of the Wood"

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SYMPATHETIC VIBRATION           for Kathleen 'You never strike a note, you always take the note.' Did it take her many of ...
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Yeats and Pound: "Lake Isle" Poems

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THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,  And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;  Nin...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Reprise: Ophelia

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Sunday, November 4, 2012

Wordsworth and Byron: "The After-Vacancy"

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Action is transitory,--a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle--this way or that-- 'Tis done, and in the after-vacancy We wonder at o...