Not sure about this one, which is why we post them. Its an odd one for me so
comments very welcome.
WHAT'S IN A NAME?
Galileo. The name is familiar
as a name in a song that,
by admission means little,
though there was a time
when a man possessed it,
was called it by friends
wife, daughter, was asked
to drink wine by it, was given
it by a mother just like most
everyone who is a little more
obscure. These thoughts
telescope, refract like a lens
like a pluck of a strained
mandolin just after Christopher
Columbus discovered the
Americas, improvised within
a novel by Trollope in another
time, sung in a ballad that sounds
famililiar and too belongs in
another time though evokes
the usual responses in the way
John Ashbery decided to have
obsidian pools in a poem in
the way telescopes and Galileo
forever go together
bw
James
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