I like it - moving. Stephen V
> Missing Graham
>
>
> Though it¹s months since he died,
> news or thoughts still come to me
> I want to try out on him:
>
> a perception prompted by
> a Bergman movie, the pain
> and grace of which I wish he¹d seen;
>
> another refutation of
> the Œnot-Shakespeare¹ heresy
> (why did it attract him?);
>
> word of that East European
> conductor who so
> seldom recorded;
>
> a turn in Eliot, the would-be
> classic, that links
> him back to romanticism;
>
> a rejoinder about
> his fierce dismissal
> of Freudianism...
>
> that I might hear his prompt
> humorous appreciation,
> weighing and judging,
>
> extending and placing.
> Is it his mind I miss?
> More than that, his chuckle,
>
> his expressive sigh,
> the troubled eye,
> the firm footsteps of one
>
> who fathomed so much
> and might, had bodily health
> been his, have gone further;
>
> the briefest exchange with whom
> left a person more
> capable of seriousness.
>
>
> Max Richards
> Melbourne
> Wednesday 31 August 2005
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