tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71444226160648103122024-03-15T18:11:24.818-07:00Zealotry of Guerin: Poetry and Fiction by Christopher GuerinThe sonnet sequence, "My Human Disguise," of 600 ekphrastic poems, was begun February 2011 and completed January 15, 2022. It can be found beginning with the January 20, 2022 post and working backwards. Going forward are 20 poems called "Terzata," beginning on January 27, 2022. Thirty more Terzata can be found among the links on the right. A new series of dramatic monologues follows on the blog roll, followed by a series of formal poems, each based on a single word.cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.comBlogger772125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-19692362065554910512024-03-14T06:32:00.000-07:002024-03-14T06:34:50.745-07:00Rose In A Tumbler (Mondrian)<p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Tdw1Ek8bQw7YS4bnLK1-pEOjDnPseueIgS4FTs6Nkmt1mEpRr-BJwCP-ZynoN9kG_tmFODt8GOxn8Ryv2RGtdEj0mfxvDxzExyzmt-3rVNgsp3fC5CP8xA9N7T5HwVEHZ8icSGxUmbL7aIvZEnbkFhvMGHhIaLGN27N-8SGLqzmfSWvbGgNgXTfz3w/s300/IMG_7912.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="239" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_Tdw1Ek8bQw7YS4bnLK1-pEOjDnPseueIgS4FTs6Nkmt1mEpRr-BJwCP-ZynoN9kG_tmFODt8GOxn8Ryv2RGtdEj0mfxvDxzExyzmt-3rVNgsp3fC5CP8xA9N7T5HwVEHZ8icSGxUmbL7aIvZEnbkFhvMGHhIaLGN27N-8SGLqzmfSWvbGgNgXTfz3w/w319-h400/IMG_7912.jpeg" width="319" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></div><div>A powder blue flower —</div></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">a rose in a short glass,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">a seer's whiskey sour,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">nature without surface.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">A drawing to surpass</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">reality, it grows,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">it seems, to embarrass</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">red and white roses.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">We know the artist’s known</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">a multiplying power — </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">the rose blooming unblown —</span></span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">an immortal flower</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">.</span></span></div>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-79674741518889511812024-03-07T01:00:00.000-08:002024-03-07T01:00:00.135-08:00The Argument from Design<p> <span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The religious impulse, it seems to me, is more about seeking than finding. There’s no greater composer devoted to this search than Gustav Mahler. The most memorable concert I ever attended was when my mother was dying of cancer and Alzheimer’s. </span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">The Berlin Philharmonic and Claudio Abbado were performing Mahler’s 9</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">th </span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Symphony, a work full of searching, sadness, desperation, resolution, and redemption. At the end of the performance, Abbado did something I’ve never seen a conductor do before, nor since. After the last note, he kept his arms up, pausing everything, the room entirely quiet, for the longest time. He waited and waited, and waited. No one made a sound. It was as though he was saying, “Consider what you have just heard, the sorrow, the wonder, and the searching in this music, and do not despair.” It was a terrifying and joyful moment, and when he finally put his arms down, followed by the loudest applause I’ve ever heard.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><b><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p></b></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">There is only one tree in the park.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Not this day only, but every day,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I find that tree when the day grows dark,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Never before dark, when the gray<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Leaves are like a whispered amen</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">To a prayer I wasn’t there to say.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Therefore, I’m cautious and slow when<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I start to climb (I believe the tree<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Is not unknown to other men);<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I test each limb before I leave the<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">One beneath, without assurance<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Any but the lowest will receive me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Then my doubt subsides where I chance<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Upon a tangled branch, ripped free<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The time I almost lost my balance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now I can move quickly up the tree,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Into its clotted heart, where the dark<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Yields, to my callused fingers only,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The life of the one tree in the park.</p></div>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-77652954470049539542024-02-29T01:00:00.000-08:002024-02-29T01:00:00.133-08:00Composition<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">At the point of the intersection</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">between the theoretical line</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">and point, there’s a dimension,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">not of space, nor of time</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">(those have been imagined</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">more thoroughly than I’m</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">imagined by myself), but of sin.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Not the brand to trouble God,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">this sin is words that begin</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">without being misunderstood</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">(because the speaker winks!)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">and conclude that bad is good.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I think the pine trees think</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">in theorems, plane geometry;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">their sap is magnetic ink,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">and the splash of red I see</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">in rose, cardinal and Mars</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">is blood escaped from my body . . . </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">as if I had come from a star</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">to civilize this wilderness.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The beach is the registrar</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">of every grain of sand. Mass</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">is energy’s conscience</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">and confessor. The soul is a gas.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet, right angles, in defiance</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the circle’s perfection,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">assume the world, and science</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">escapes reality’s detection.</span></div>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-30891398186373536452024-02-22T01:00:00.000-08:002024-02-22T01:00:00.248-08:00Violence In Peacetime<p>An Air Force brat, I was so used to soldiers marching by our house, I hardly noticed.</p><p>————————————————————————————-</p><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">How orderly the mower’s sound,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">blades mincing, round and round,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">the tender blades of grass.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I hear the boots of soldiers pass</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">beneath my curtained window,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">and don’t wonder where they go.</span></div>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-43107813149228999472024-02-15T01:00:00.000-08:002024-02-15T05:51:50.002-08:00Dulle Griet (Pieter Bruegel The Elder)<p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh56JTbpWt5kNt6pkHNOIzII_Dyr6dx5P0Cm35jpsukBHab3_uD-Cq8rClRLQM__cDmx1K2E3DiwoRx_h1eT7Hzh4u2LrnzQT7b_McPhYSk1n0QF0MuYaRlecMS7vg8lomRA4joveY-642UD_Wgs_wrg716hR9hvjmwukWn83kSmJ5SbN4Srph7MX3gA/s800/IMG_7820.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="800" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgh56JTbpWt5kNt6pkHNOIzII_Dyr6dx5P0Cm35jpsukBHab3_uD-Cq8rClRLQM__cDmx1K2E3DiwoRx_h1eT7Hzh4u2LrnzQT7b_McPhYSk1n0QF0MuYaRlecMS7vg8lomRA4joveY-642UD_Wgs_wrg716hR9hvjmwukWn83kSmJ5SbN4Srph7MX3gA/w594-h428/IMG_7820.jpeg" width="594" /></a></div><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">A creature of prentice alchemy,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">slack-jawed butcher, zombie,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">wrote the last Deuteronomy</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">in egg on the first door to Hell.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">In breastplate and iron cap (bell</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">in a tree-tin and distant knell),</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">Meg schemed the death God would flee</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">from hated lizards' bite and miss</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">the jaws of soldier-swigging fish,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">but not her blood-sword avarice.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">The sick crone ran, her dream to marry</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">hot in pots and pans she'd carry.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">"He is a spy,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">a bloodlust fly</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">circling the sty</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">above the sky,"</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">she said as the egg ashes fell</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">on all red, fecund infidels.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">Her barrel insect monster's hiss</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">excited her waistless bogey-</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">man's ass to speak; it said, "I</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">eat and fart and then I die!"</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">The hysterical diablerie</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">on the witch inflicted flies.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">God's dancing pipers' fantasy,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">with spiders from a harp to kill</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">those who eat apples but can't piss</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">a lake in payment of the toll,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">blow them long and bloody kisses.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">His winking, trapdoor-blinkered eyes,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">opened wide as windows, see</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">Mad Meg charge; she desperately</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif;">desires to confound her enemy.</span></span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-75597150852731205852024-02-07T14:03:00.000-08:002024-02-09T15:54:42.201-08:00Lighght<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A beam of light cutting the skin of space</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">travels at the speed of time to the beginning,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">the end of things, seeing everything between,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">without being seen.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or a single photon released into a sphere</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">lined with silver, instantaneously covering</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">all of space, repeating that cold cycle endlessly,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">as if someone might see.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is a discrete miracle, like a man’s soul,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">a point on a continuum proliferating one day</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">to saturate the universe with something better</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">than gas, heat, matter. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is moonlight, the boxes sketched on the floor</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">at two thirty three in the morning, a lighter </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">shade of light. Watch it turn the earth.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is promiscuous,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">infecting its neighbors, or looking to.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It stretches across the sky like an eyelid</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">and proliferates color like a drug dream.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It splits the prism</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">into living spectra, dulls the magnifying glass,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">blanches the dead leaf, burns the cloud white; </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">it is nothing at all—</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">until it strikes something.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With a bow to Aram Saroyan, who wrote the title in 1965.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-8135355423761047422024-02-01T01:00:00.000-08:002024-02-01T01:00:00.241-08:00Now, A Sonnet<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">There's nothing there we haven't seen before,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">But not so many times we can afford </span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">To hustle past. Let's promise each other --</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">Never commit the sin of being bored.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">Besides, so much has changed in just a year.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">The sun-rustled air seems even clearer.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">The pattern of the leaves left in the trees</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">(Yes, the postcard days ended yesterday),</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">Suggests paragraphs full of ideas,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">Things we think but never think to say.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">The colors play the least part of the scene,</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">And we must grant each leaf its final bow.</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">If we could stay to watch the last careen</span><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;" /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, "Palatino Linotype", Palatino, serif; text-align: start;">To the ground, we might settle then at Now.</span></span></div></div>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-36030824434050701452024-01-25T01:30:00.000-08:002024-01-25T01:30:00.148-08:00Allegory, Sonnet #621<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Notice with what swift skill </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">the wave dives on its side </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">to escape the rolling mill </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the incoming tide. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sloped beaches elide </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">the surf’s distended plight </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">to the sandpiper’s delight. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">When the oceans deepen </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">and our shores sink from sight, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">when powerful tides bend </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">toward dry land and kill </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">what no man could defend, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">we’ll call that an evil </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">and pray, “Moon, make an end.”</span></div>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-40598560692066252372024-01-18T01:00:00.000-08:002024-01-18T01:00:00.139-08:00Our Winter<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mid-January and winter has arrived at last.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The branches droop beneath the snow of two</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">storms. No bird has sung for us in weeks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have read of winters so cold, so long,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">the birds fell like leaves from the trees;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">always war is raging nearby or the smoke</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">of the crematorium has smeared the snow like</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">a gray, vague and indecipherable rubbing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">No bird in my backyard falls from a branch</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">that doesn’t catch the air beneath its wings</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">and swoop off into the wind with a kind of</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">triumph. I have never been shot at either.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And yet, not forty miles from here a man</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">was dismembered and his body parts used</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">in a ritual with no better purpose than</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">the resurrection of some long dead devil.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the next county, a girl of sixteen was</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">hog-tied and set on fire by two brothers</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">who confessed she had teased them with her</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">body. One brother accused the other</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">of dancing to the rhythm of her screams.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">And so, each day, I watch the birds. This</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">morning, a cardinal sat hunched on a limb—</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">as if I’d mistake <i>him</i> for a bloody fist.</span></div>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-27962016295907125442024-01-11T01:00:00.000-08:002024-01-11T01:00:00.133-08:00Ephemera<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">How many evenings in ten years;</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Most spent — reading aloud, listening —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Trying to be conscious of their joy?</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today one child is still only ten.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other is only, still only five.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Time disappears into their growing.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sometimes you think that even</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">To be conscious is not enough —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then you despair, like a castaway,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fingers cupped on the sea’s edge,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Afraid to sip when it is the whole sea</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">You are dying, dying to drink.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-83393175183595107902024-01-05T05:47:00.000-08:002024-01-06T07:11:53.241-08:00I and It<div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nothing nature does rests in archives</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">we can look up and read again unless</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">it is what we remember of our lives</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">and see within and do not have to guess</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">what has happened under some duress.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: large;">What seems natural is not always wise.</span></div>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-44193440678464527682023-12-28T00:30:00.000-08:002023-12-28T09:49:27.925-08:00Gun, Sonnet #620<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A half-dressed man once pointed his gun</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">At me from an upper floor window</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In the street: “Hey, kid, want some fun!”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">He laughed. For a moment I didn’t know</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who I was — not until he disappeared.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nothing had happened, something feared,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because the child’s world I knew</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Had never been so wrenched askew. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Even so, I ran home, my lungs bursting,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Shouting with joy — no, then cursing,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crying, tears stinging, feeling shame</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">For which I’ve never found a name.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ( )</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"> ( )</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-79209265986784061952023-12-21T01:00:00.000-08:002023-12-21T07:23:52.901-08:00Blue Note, Sonnet #619<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I took a photo seven times —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A thick grove of dark spindly trees</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Backed by a bright December sun —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And a small turquoise dot shines</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In each — the camera lens sees</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Images where I think are none.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I continued my walk by a pond,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking for mink and waterfowl.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Hawks circled each other beyond,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Their screeches in the wind a howl.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">From deep hoof prints I knew a deer</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Had trod this path, now nowhere near.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I stared at the sun — a blinked tear</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Painted the trees with a blue smear.</span></p><div><br /></div>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-5592383191387979812023-12-14T00:30:00.000-08:002023-12-14T00:30:00.131-08:00Beyond, Sonnet #618<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There is so little that is right here,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I might suspect there’s nothing more.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Everything grows within the sphere</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of my eye — ocean crashing shore.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What’s far is near, what’s then is now,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eating a pear is taking a vow.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Can I leave it at that, the I</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Looking through the window at trees,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And nail thunderclouds to the sky</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">With a hundred thousand me’s?</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ego was never so rewarded</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Choosing to lose what it’s hoarded.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some say there is nothing beyond,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ignoring our interstitial bond.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-43358672908784353262023-12-07T01:00:00.001-08:002023-12-07T05:54:36.809-08:00On The Waste Land, Sonnet #617<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">One hundred and one years ago</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">He diagnosed our vertigo.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">His scalpel cut beneath the skin</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And removed original sin.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">He held it in his palsied hands —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The nothing he left on Margate Sands.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s only gotten worse since then —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The commandments are ten times ten. </span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dust is fear and the unreal real.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now it’s not what you think, but feel.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A cacophony of voices</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Warns us to forget all choices.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As night falls a whimpered prayer</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Leaves the nervous chanting sayer.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-76164843685289636412023-11-30T12:57:00.000-08:002023-11-30T12:57:38.832-08:00Avenue of Poplars<p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The faintest chitter of leaves in the Fall,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The slant auroras beneath the branches,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The blue-gray clouds that are not clouds at all,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But cloudless sky the fading light blanches,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The warmth and the chill I feel on my cheeks</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">As sunned and unsunned breezes alternate,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Each gust not finding what the other seeks,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And not one beast reaching out to a mate.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Today I walk this ordered avenue</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Until the moon tops the furthest poplar.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">It's so bright I can't see a single star,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">A Milky Way I cannot know, but knew.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I reach home as the shadows slip away.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Only the moon's been moved enough to stay.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-51111866875275568352023-11-23T01:00:00.000-08:002023-11-23T01:00:00.144-08:00Pine Forest (Gustav Klimt), Sonnet #616<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7OscZ1e3X_XeF6HFqQDZD4m9bCQliuYQ_Sfs-gI9b0ued9JqU8OH8dCCXkdAy3fYpD1u3tEAlyHvqg-_jQLWTZEEUfotsfBtSpzgqg0wjj07VOK7YX5x_yeQxR9p57W0NkmyMhcz4azhiyZfjEna9dcPskB7DikbmkrkTwn3UyJnKIN8l1i9cUHO1Aw/s802/Pine%20Forest%20Klimt.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7OscZ1e3X_XeF6HFqQDZD4m9bCQliuYQ_Sfs-gI9b0ued9JqU8OH8dCCXkdAy3fYpD1u3tEAlyHvqg-_jQLWTZEEUfotsfBtSpzgqg0wjj07VOK7YX5x_yeQxR9p57W0NkmyMhcz4azhiyZfjEna9dcPskB7DikbmkrkTwn3UyJnKIN8l1i9cUHO1Aw/w399-h400/Pine%20Forest%20Klimt.JPG" width="399" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There’s no edge to the pine forest.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We’re always within and without.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s neither a question nor test,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Because there’s no room here for doubt.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its mixed scents purify the air</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And its shades rarify the light.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I decide to touch each column,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Which soon urges me toward despair,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As though mine is a hand of blight</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That renders the living bark numb.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Without navigable details,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">One can get lost in woods — not these,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Whose needled floors delimit trails</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some, not all, follow with ease.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-49525326639723213952023-11-16T01:00:00.000-08:002023-11-16T01:00:00.140-08:00Thorns, Sonnet #615<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiCmrd32KrbjERui1ENCFHkzoQmGwUIOBCbw0bqk9olX3LYKFYGKHgbvceariB4KnFs9mm0rGzubKhPDIhovgLNjrZ7NlCEbBAM5u6v6WJiulqBJWCrqXSIU9qKJv2BRA__u3fG__9WbrfOgnBES76nrRrxE8H9ZZ0V0riGeLFHqf0ETe7LkGbFh1d2A" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjiCmrd32KrbjERui1ENCFHkzoQmGwUIOBCbw0bqk9olX3LYKFYGKHgbvceariB4KnFs9mm0rGzubKhPDIhovgLNjrZ7NlCEbBAM5u6v6WJiulqBJWCrqXSIU9qKJv2BRA__u3fG__9WbrfOgnBES76nrRrxE8H9ZZ0V0riGeLFHqf0ETe7LkGbFh1d2A=w400-h300" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">They pierce a clear blue sky</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And tear it to tatters.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blind or with open eyes,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">If I know what matters,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can thrust my fingers</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">In and leave blood and flesh.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Yet starlings can linger,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Safe in its lethal mesh.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The question is why thorns?</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">They can protect a rose.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The bull charges its horns.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But why such a tree grows</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Long and fearsome spindles</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Pierces us with symbols.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-15019568980838190162023-11-09T01:00:00.004-08:002023-11-10T07:43:04.307-08:00Construct, Sonnet #614<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A dreamed-of tern feathered bright tin,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">With feet of forks and spoons, and eyes</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Of rapidly blinking buttons</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Flapping in a nacreous sky . . .</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">So briefly, yet half-remembered.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is it different than sand hill cranes</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Flying tight skeins, or tiny birds</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fighting at your feeder, insane,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Almost: hungry, or is it greed?</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">All is constructed by what feeds</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The integers of counting we’s,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Assembled — one, one — instantly,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As we try to comprehend dreams —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">And all else— as more than just seen.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-77178481110633184392023-11-02T01:00:00.001-07:002023-11-02T01:00:00.143-07:00Returning, Sonnet #613<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">How many remember so much?</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I’ve read for some it’s a burden,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">That not a thought or word or touch</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Is lost, faded or uncertain.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">All comes back clear and unbidden,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A constant stream of images</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">It is prayed might remain hidden.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">No, such a past never ages.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The old yew tree in my back yard,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Subsiding, has dug a sinkhole,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Its roots drawing earth to branches.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I fill it in with sand —it’s hard—</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I don’t want to choke the tree’s bole</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just to slow small avalanches.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-40476338763066235022023-10-26T06:24:00.000-07:002023-10-26T06:24:22.698-07:00Villanelle<div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">The moment passed and I forget</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">The reason why or what I meant</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">In the exact instant I let</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">It go like a blank letter sent</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">To someone I don’t remember.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Even Now is an old event,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Both a flaming and an ember.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">To hold, even touch, is to burn</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Like September in December.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">It takes but a second to learn,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">What no-one else will ever know,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">That all I am will soon return</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">If I stand not still but think slow,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Say nothing, and as if asleep,</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Allow myself to come and go.</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;"></span><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Instead, I cannot help but leap</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">Ahead to what’s to come and let</span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14pt;">My self reach for what it can’t keep,</span></div><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14pt;">Moments I already forget.</span></div>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-87686028656143471492023-10-19T01:00:00.006-07:002023-10-19T01:00:00.150-07:00Two Haiku: Mushrooms<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim4J-FA7KKcgfRrMHfskLA7aks_D_SzBwsM_YDfy4ACN2A_oKofGy6x4EDYh2bYC6ydMM5wdBiCrVnBlp-GjSiUbOfrZN8S8TAVWbWbslRTMLAQuxTJv9Gk2-FaabRBvdDkQQzpx0ISc4-FdC92V_fublxmciKa-ihc4kxBd_-_3M20EXWXRmgQFh8fA/s960/PuffballsShadow.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim4J-FA7KKcgfRrMHfskLA7aks_D_SzBwsM_YDfy4ACN2A_oKofGy6x4EDYh2bYC6ydMM5wdBiCrVnBlp-GjSiUbOfrZN8S8TAVWbWbslRTMLAQuxTJv9Gk2-FaabRBvdDkQQzpx0ISc4-FdC92V_fublxmciKa-ihc4kxBd_-_3M20EXWXRmgQFh8fA/w400-h300/PuffballsShadow.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Like the tops of skulls —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">as my shadow would have said —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">don’t you dare eat them!</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two, together, kiss —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">a third is all by itself —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">a jealous lover!</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-45609595546772108572023-10-11T23:44:00.005-07:002023-10-11T23:44:00.140-07:00Haiku: Heart<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The form of the heart</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">is the heart beating, thus, thus —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">thus no form at all.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-37221551830207190552023-10-05T01:00:00.005-07:002023-10-05T01:00:00.211-07:00Black Holes (James Webb Telescope), Sonnet #612<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY37izAw509UJQfldfOnv0O3ppqR4b97EfOlaj7TNz3aTnJ7boPgOewdi79XMhDcDIvsLXww6D3s8Hka3c2yPktN_rhqxZdV0QyBKgfwfusGj2QnCFeCYPa3hpsjuNgHF2Rlfm7-WkV0Ei8upyYyKTioNpR_ZAMf8ECEwA7dbm5AKm_mWnco7Y8z8YNw/s899/IMG_7392.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="720" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY37izAw509UJQfldfOnv0O3ppqR4b97EfOlaj7TNz3aTnJ7boPgOewdi79XMhDcDIvsLXww6D3s8Hka3c2yPktN_rhqxZdV0QyBKgfwfusGj2QnCFeCYPa3hpsjuNgHF2Rlfm7-WkV0Ei8upyYyKTioNpR_ZAMf8ECEwA7dbm5AKm_mWnco7Y8z8YNw/w320-h400/IMG_7392.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There’s so much I don’t want to know</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I look beyond the Milky Way.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Black holes are the eyes of a crow,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Unblinking, thinking an <span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">idee</span></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" style="font-style: italic;">Fixe:</span> “I see therefore I am an eye.”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">What happens to what eyes swallow?</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">(I don’t want to know, or do I?)</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can’t see a Nothing beyond</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The event horizon, but a wand</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beheld by the eye of my hand</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blindly writing an & —</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or, glass orbs with just one side</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tinted with silver iodide:</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There, where crows’ ideas reside.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7144422616064810312.post-21140427599986307252023-09-28T01:00:00.009-07:002023-09-28T01:00:00.145-07:00Know 2<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We can’t tell anyone to know,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Don’t even know what knowing is,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where it comes from, its genesis.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Things we know just come and go.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We can’t force anything to stay,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Especially anything we say.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Everything we know is “as though,”</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">A nothing become contingent,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mindlessly intelligent.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">There’s no bird smarter than a crow,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Or so it’s said by learned men,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Who can count from one to ten,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16.1px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">But find it hard to explain how.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Crows never fly in a straight line,</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">As if seeking some strict design</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">We fly from not wanting to know.</span></p>cguerinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15669393235135523622noreply@blogger.com0