So is this Part One, Ken?
I think it's interesting but that there are other things to say along this line...?
Are you working off a text by Bellini?
Doug
On 2011-12-22, at 12:43 PM, Ken Wolman wrote:
> In Praise of Bereft Syllables
> (after Giovanni Bellini)
>
> I started working on something, and it was really bad, it was crummy. But I was really so happy just to be working on a little crummy thing. And I would get home, and I would think, "it's waiting for me!" You know, I would have the draft on the counter, and I would move it from room to room. And I would look at it, and each time I looked at it, it was still the same thing. -- From a Louise Gluck interview
>
> It's always the same--it's one day, after many
> days of silence, so I will take what I've been given.
> I feel like (oh so much like!) Simeon Stylites on the
> desert pillar putting vermin back into a sore,
> telling it to eat what God has given,
> as though I'm the creature’s parent of some
> undefined gender: most likely its mom
> because I have this ill-fitting maternalism
> even toward flesh-eating creatures
> even though I'm by nature paternalistic.
> I simply have to be someone's mother
> even if only a beetle or a worm
> to feel like I'm gifting nature by
> gifting someone else. No wonder
> little animals like me: I am the source,
> the nourisher who needs to give
> and therefore to receive in return,
> the imperfect servant, Francis of Assisi,
> extending my arms toward the morning light,
> a voice full of praise even against my howling bones,
> my back that aches,
> feet that will not carry me to greet the day.
>
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