Ah yes, Doug, life a procession of sores with intermissions it seems. The
body in pain, was it Elaine Scarry who wrote so compellingly about it?
Perhaps more can be said about differences between public/private pain and
the differences between experience and empathy.
Bill
On Thu, 15 Jun 2017 at 4:29 am, Sheila Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> How vivid and how real and human this is, Doug. Haunting and from many
> places near and far felt in different ways. And with.
>
> On Jun 14, 2017 11:24 AM, "Douglas Barbour" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> pain is so personal
> unless it’s so public
> it’s something more than pain
>
> all those bodies in
> or beyond it
> we feel for & at
> that distance do not _feel_
>
> & our own a cut a punch
> or something more
> & longer lasting
>
> that _hurts_ that
> haunts our nights
> physical presence
> in the body
>
> & so in the mind
> until it’s over
>
> gone & only
> remembered as like
>
> until the next time
> when it’s new & sore
> all over again
>
>
> Douglas Barbour
> [log in to unmask]
> https://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
>
> Recent publications: (With Sheila E Murphy) Continuations & Continuations 2
> (UofAPress).
> Recording Dates (Rubicon Press).
> Listen. If (UofAPress):
>
>
> I go down to the Twilight Arcade
> and watch the Martian invaders,
> already appalled by our language,
> pointing at what they want.
>
> Bill Manhire
>
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