Douglas, I have been inspired by your Machado posts and others - I will
look out for the Trueblood translations - look f o r them.
If I had had any presence of mind in time for snapshots4 I would have made
one called blurred snapshot or timelapse snapshot and made it out of parts
of the thread of discussion on Machado and even called it Instead of a Book
Review or Better than a...etc.
I too have a garden over-grown & with a history and memories and about 6
months ago (in Australia) I wrote in a breath:
On a day such as this
with its sides torn out moaning
for the wind to return
and tend its ragged wound
on such a day
to recover gently the buried hyacinths
swollen with ten seasons
and the little ones
gathering a bowl of unwashed moons
is to do what the wind cannot bring itself to do
and thank you for yours
Nicholas
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