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Summer can be poetry without the words.  A sweet peach cuts through time and puts you right in the everlasting camp of the gods.  A tomato is a love apple, pomme d\u2019amour.  The spume of the sea drenches with spent force and effervescence.  This is real, just as drought is real and dog days are real that swelter through any and all summer months.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I always want to keep my finger on the pulse of this life force in reality, this apprehension of elemental life.  Along comes so-called \u201creal life\u201d with its go-go energy, rage of politics and urgency of injustice.  Poetic receptivity feels quavery in the shadow of this, so I reframe the question: What should poetic attention be attentive to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ask a poet what to do. \u201cso little joy \u2014 sister of the gods\u2014 in our poems Ryszard,\u201d Zbigniew Herbert writes in “To Ryszard Krynicki \u2014 A Letter.\u201d  \u201ctoo few glimmering twilights mirrors wreaths ecstasies.\u201d  Both poets lived through World War II and Communist takeover of Poland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A line earlier in the poem says: \u201cwe came too easily to believe beauty does not save.\u201d  The poet later asks: \u201cwhat forces of the spirit do we need\/ blindly beating despair against despair\/to ignite a spark a word of atonement\/that the dancing circle might last on the soft grass\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He calls it a riddle and so do I.\u00a0 Though beauty is wide and inclusive.\u00a0 Reality is inclusive.\u00a0 Imagination is not the fairy tale version, but an existential feature of survival.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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