Monthly Archives: December 2014

The Secret Life of Things – More Poems and Poets on Paying Attention

December 6, 2014 – 9:59 am

  Everything is Waiting for You Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone. As if life were a progressive and cunning crime with no witness to the tiny hidden transgressions. To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings. Surely, even you, at times, have felt the […]

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Paying Attention – Rilke and Hirschfield

December 4, 2014 – 7:43 pm

    from The Ninth Duino Elegy Nor does the wanderer bring down a handful of earth from his high mountain slope to the valley (for earth, too, is mute), but a word he has plucked from the climbing: the yellow and blue gentian. Are we, perhaps, here just to utter: house, bridge, fountain, gate, jug, fruit […]

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Choose Life – The Gospel According to Spencer Reece

December 2, 2014 – 9:03 pm

                                Chiaroscuro When the ficus beyond the grillwork darkens, when the rind cools down on the lime, when we sit here a long time, when we feel ourselves found, when the red tile roofs deepen to brown, when the exhausted beach […]

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