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Monday, July 28, 2014

Embellishment




In 'Wallace Stevens: Teaching the Anthology pieces', Helen Vendler says that Disillusionment of Ten O' Clock will warn them (readers) that he also fears the minimalist style, which can entail wearing only "white night-gowns".
If we can explore the anatomy of one room in  Hearst Castle
where a modern one would look bare bones.
The embellishment coaxes one way of looking at it
different from how we would look at something new for the first time.
Is embellishment of an ordinary material, a way of lapel pressing
stashing memories of 

Sunday, July 27, 2014

Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions

Henry Beston


On Long Poem

Death and Destiny

Dante through Hell
If we are going to the face the mound
of food we wasted in after life
and the karma we created
is it the inverse of this life?
What you didnt do and
should have done
haunts you for later
The time you need to live
exponentially falls down
with good deeds.

The search for origins in the twentieth-cenury long poem 
But Destiny, the span of life
- antonym of origin too
is our mystery.
Words have words as origin
They should end too in words
that they are replaced with
 
During Moth week, Moth is exalted as a food source for the bats
Bats as the destroyer of corn-ear and arrmy-worm moths
Cheers for Bats and referenced in The End of Night by Paul Bogard - pg 147)

Sunflower from the pot, a fathers day gift
now gleams
The shell of a seed keeps the inside from drying
from sun













Greater Silences

The longing of the long poem

Saturday, July 26, 2014

Blackbook of US Stamps

Long poem

An anatomy of a long poem
 longpoemmagazine
I didnt realise that Hiawatha is a long poem. We had read the story of Hiawatha just before high school.
W G sebalds After Nature long poem
Homes for long poems
Short takes on long poems
Journals that accept long poems

Home Sweet Jerome

Hayden Carruth Collected Longer Poems



"Reason curls like a nut in wrinkled sleep" - Hayden Carruth in The asylum
North Winter
On Hayden
carruth
On Contra Mortem
Medical Humanities
Where do you find Nothing?
More carruth poems
 Vermont Long poem.

A man meets an eye. And then he meets  a bigger eye and then an even bigger eye.

Unstill Life



 "To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn’t
something you command.”  - Mark Rothko

Labor day True Birth Stories

Happy Clouds, Happy Trees


Bob Ross the happy painter
I recognize him from pbs.

What high school students do

just outside the class room
Muchos
Rehearse sentences in Spanish in a group of three
Juggle with green tennis balls
be in a room with metallic mixing bowls

face anxiety of entering a class late