Thanks Ken,
I know it has been a terribly long time I have been absent--the obligations
ofwork, hard drive meltdown computer woes, but then a lovely two week time
in Ireland in Donegal where I could hear and speak Gaelic to my heart's
content and I did. I have a faint but glimmering hope to return to the
Samhain Poetry Festival in October which is celebrating the haiku. Cathal
O'Searcaigh and Gabriel Rosenstock are the hosts/judges and it is a half a
mile from where my dear friends live, so it is like going home.
In a couple of weeks, I will be away at Irish camp--teaching either
beginner Irish or beginner bodhran. I'd be happy with either and a little
time to write in whatever tongue the spirit decides. The Spiritual
Exercises, so to speak.
Nice to be back and catch up on the many threads that got tangled in my
hard drive.
Best,
Deborah
> [Original Message]
> From: Kenneth Wolman <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 8/10/2005 6:08:40 PM
> Subject: Re: Another snap 10 August 2005
>
> Deborah Humphreys wrote:
>
> >wednesday
> >
> >snap, she thinks about
> >
> >the other
> >
> >meanings
> >
> >the sound of her sister's voice
> >
> >over the line
> >
> >the phone pulled, dropped
> >
> >too many times
> >
> >static and not quite
> >
> >resignation
> >
> >beans falling
> >
> >into the dinner pot
> >
> >waiting to be steamed
> >
> >
> A lovely thing, Deborah whose voice has been absent for far too long.
> But not as lovely as the Sinner With Seven Tongues, especially the
> Gaelic version which I do not understand except that the sound alone is
> something extraordinary. Rare that one can hear a language not
> understood yet know what it says.
>
> ken
>
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> times along with the worst; where you are not allowed to forget the worst,
> else you cannot be healed."--C. D. Wright
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