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Tue Jun-17-08 07:01 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 6/17/2008) |
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Summer Nocturne
Let us love this distance, since those who do not love each other are not separated. -Simone Weil
Night without you, and the dog barking at the silence, no doubt at what's in the silence, a deer perhaps pruning the rhododendron or that raccoon with its brilliant fingers testing the garbage can lid by the shed.
Night I've chosen a book to help me think about the long that's in longing, "the space across which desire reaches." Night that finally needs music to quiet the dog and whatever enormous animal night itself is, appetite without limit.
Since I seem to want to be hurt a little, it's Stan Getz and "It Never Entered My Mind," and to back him up Johnnie Walker Black coming down now from the cabinet to sing of its twelve lonely years in the dark.
Night of small revelations, night of odd comfort. Starting to love this distance. Starting to feel how present you are in it.
Stephen Dunn
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Tue Jun-17-08 09:16 AM
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Night I've chosen a book to help me think about the long that's in longing, "the space across which desire reaches." Night that finally needs music to quiet the dog and whatever enormous animal night itself is, appetite without limit.
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Tue Jun-17-08 05:12 PM
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3. Thank you for the reply... |
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Tue Jun-17-08 05:12 PM
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2. Well, if THIS poem only gets one response... |
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I fail to see the point anymore.
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Tue Jun-17-08 05:23 PM
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Sorry, sweetie...
I meant to look for your poem earlier, and then I got busy...
And all I can say is WOW...
This is so beautiful, so damn hurtful, so damn accurate!
Especially this stanza:
...Night I've chosen a book to help me think about the long that's in longing, "the space across which desire reaches." Night that finally needs music to quiet the dog and whatever enormous animal night itself is, appetite without limit... It's perfect, and I thank you for your efforts!
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Tue Jun-17-08 05:44 PM
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