Tag: creative writing
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* Akhmatova & some news on the friday influence
Willow – Anna Akhmatova “And a worn-out cluster of trees.” — Pushkin In the cool nursery of the young century, I was born to a patterned tranquility, The voice of man was not sweet to me, But the wind’s voice I could understand. I loved burdocks and nettles, But the silver willow best…
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divagations, & the friday influence
Elms – C.K. Williams All morning the tree men have been taking down the stricken elms skirting the broad sidewalks. The pitiless electric chain saws whine tirelessly up and down their piercing, operatic scales and the diesel choppers in the street shredding the debris chug feverishly, incessantly, packing truckload after truckload with the feathery, homogenized,…
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* translation 3/3 on the friday influence
(from Proverbios y Cantares – Antonio Machado) * XXXII. Oh faith of meditation! Oh faith after deep thought! When a heart returns to earth, the human cup overflows, and the sea swells. *** This week, The Friday Influence presents the work of the great Spanish poet Antonio Machado. I first ran across the above poem…
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* translation 2/3 on the friday influence
(from Greguerias – Ramon Gomez de la Serna) * Curious about the earth, the sky keeps opening and closing the clouds. * The hour differs throughout the stars. In some it is yesterday, in others today, and in others centuries have passed. * He had a keyring so dusty, he looked like a fisherman of…
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