BlueIris
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Mon Jan-26-09 10:38 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 1/26/09 |
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"Mystic" The air is a mill of hooks— Questions without answer, Glittering and drunk as flies Whose kiss stings unbearably In the fetid wombs of black air under pines in summer.
I remember The dead smell of sun on wood cabins, The stiffness of sails, the long salt winding sheets. Once one has seen God, what is the remedy? Once one has been seized up
Without a part left over, Not a toe, not a finger, and used, Used utterly, in the sun's conflagration, the stains That lengthen from ancient cathedrals What is the remedy?
The pill of the Communion tablet, The walking beside still water? Memory? Or picking up the bright pieces Of Christ in the faces of rodents, The tame flower-nibblers, the ones
Whose hopes are so low they are comfortable— The humpback in his small, washed cottage Under the spokes of the clematis. Is there no great love, only tenderness? Does the sea
Remember the walker upon it? Meaning leaks from the molecules. The chimneys of the city breathe, the window sweats, The children leap in their cots. The sun blooms, it is a geranium.
The heart has not stopped.
—Sylvia Plath
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Mon Jan-26-09 11:38 AM
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I would have like to have known her. Thanks.
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Mon Jan-26-09 11:39 AM
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2. Sure thing, Devoted Reader. |
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Mon Jan-26-09 11:41 AM
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Ah, Sylvia Plath...
Nearly incomprehensible, but still with great imagery.
Thank you!
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Mon Jan-26-09 11:45 AM
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4. "Nearly incomprehensible, but still with great imagery." Hee. nt |
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