Quote/thought a' the day (or week, or however long it takes me to get around to changing it...)
Scriabin (epigraph to his 5th Piano Sonata):
"Je vous appelle à l vie, ó forces mysterieuses!
Noyées dans les obscure profundeurs
De l’esprit créateur, craintives
Ebauches de la vie, à vous j’apporte l’audace."
And a quote:
"Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons,
It is to grow in the open air and eat and sleep with the earth."
Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road
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AND a poem or two of the day (or week, or however long it takes me to get around to changing it...). For now, here is a zipper poem (a form I developed many years ago in which two independent poetic lines can be 'zipped' together to form a poetic whole).
The Poppy
Perhaps its
Fragile
strength lies
in its petals
exclusively
as if each were
in being so perfectly
the wing of a monochrome
suited
moth... suited
to a place of brief floods
in an iridescent
and overwhelming
silk-like orange
sun.
last updated 4/8/08
