Category: Poetry
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Season’s books and eponymous poem
Good grief, I almost forgot to re-post the eponymous poem! I received a volume of Rowan Williams poetry for Christmas, and have been distracted by that. His “Flight Path” in that volume reminds me of some of the haunting ‘walking dead’ scenes from the Justin Kurzel film of Macbeth that we saw on Boxing Day.…
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The Retrieval System
Maxine Kumin and I go way back. She came to talk to my English class when I was in the 7th or 8th grade, probably almost 40 years ago now. Mostly I remember that there was something vaguely subversive about her and that my English teacher was excited and proud and nervous. I liked whatever…
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Eponymous poem….
Well, so that is that. Now we must dismantle the tree, Putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes — Some have got broken — and carrying them up to the attic. The holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burnt, And the children got ready for school. There are enough Left-overs to…