Hal - I am not sure 'copacetic' does it - too suburban ironic, and not
enough 'global' for the final punch or vacancy. But the rest - its mental
range/scope - I really like.
Apropos, perhaps, last night a rare librarian friend was telling us how he
once used the services of the first cyclotron, that is an atom splitter
(1931 & apparently still operative) to determine that the ink use in an
alleged 12 century manuscript on velum was utterly forged. The atoms in the
ink were of a much later century.
On to Virgil in the original, and good luck!
Stephen V
http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> love the shifts as usual, Hal. And the sharp turn of the final couplet:
> how Shakespeherean it all is!
>
> Doug
> On 1-Dec-06, at 8:44 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>
>> Sonnet: Best Possible Light
>>
>> Intelligent controllers agree that telecentric approaches
>> to the early Beethoven sonatas yield more pleasure
>> than twelve-course banquets ever did. When the best
>>
>> of friends sit down to simple meals of lab-bound pathogens,
>> exciting opportunities knock on every locked and bolted
>> door. The cooler atoms allow themselves to be captured.
>>
>> And if we canšt have that wešd have to wonder why. Or, if
>> not, why neighborly persiflage now fails to mend fences?
>> As always, conveniences morph into necessities among
>>
>> those who know better than let hotheads prevail. Dance-
>> like melodies from the oboe answered by superheated
>> rising fourths from the violins. And yet? No exit strategy
>>
>> will compensate for those stupid missteps at the outset.
>> So wešll soldier on until, one fine day, all is copacetic.
>>
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
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>
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