Monthly Archives: June 2025

USHA

All lines of the poem arrive, perfect in itself except that it needs to be written.  The gestalt in a swift and complete vision.  Start.  Where.  So many words crowd the mouth. Also tongue-tied.  Vision – the Puritan town made worldly.  Sunshines on it. The clapboard café.  Iced … Continue reading

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Celan’s Prophetic Darkness

My immersion into Paul Celan’s poems hasn’t been depressing; instead I’ve been following, with keen attention over the past weeks, a mind which has been where we are treading.  Celan spoke of poems as being prophetic, that they “cast their shadow … Continue reading

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Grand Slam at the Brink

Oh, a mere mortal; the hours I spenton my couch, watching, not watching, pacing, cleaning, anything to trim the tension of watching the tennis gods two bedraggled bodies wracking them-selves senseless smacking the small ballto new and giddy places.  Mother,if I had … Continue reading

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The Page, the Page!

“Put it downon the page” – a writingteacher says,“…metaphorically speaking” Meaning the page pales,letters on paper have been eatenand digested (as metaphors do), transmuted into light and hovering figures On a backlit screen, the pagea wink in language, a vestige holding its … Continue reading

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