Wholly agree. And what an 80 years of creativity.
Doug
On 2011-12-11, at 1:39 AM, Max Richards wrote:
> thanks, Mark, delicious affectionate imitation...
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> Goodness, now he's 80!
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> Max
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> Quoting Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>:
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>> On the occasion of Emily Dickinson's birthday, and a day before Jerome
>> Rothenberg's 80th, "Two Poems, after Emily Dickinson," written when he was
>> about 20. From his collection "Retrievals: Uncollected & New Poems
>> 1955-2010," available (at a discount) at junctionpress.com.
>>
>> Note the final wicked slant rhyme.
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>> Two Poems, after Emily Dickinson
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>> 1
>> The last train left at five o’clock,
>> Somehow we missed the way;
>> We’ll have to sit in waiting rooms
>> until eternity.
>>
>> Tickets form an ark of snow,
>> Water comes in drops,
>> While this earth-bound passenger
>> Studies secret maps,
>>
>> Inquires at the agent’s door
>> If the next train leaves,
>> Anxious to reduce delay
>> To a term of weeks.
>>
>> When it chanced, we couldn’t tell
>> That it would always be
>> This waiting in a busy room
>> For immortality.
>>
>> 2
>> The birds attain superior life
>> The others never find;
>> I wish my obligations
>> Might dabble with the wind.
>>
>> Within his strictest tenement
>> Deciduous to rise,
>> That wing confining aviary
>> To me were Paradise.
>>
>> But mapping bounds of heaven,
>> Topographers will pause
>> Before they reach that other house,
>> And justify the jaws.
>>
>> Essential circumscription,
>> I find its premise odd,
>> Which grants necessity of bird,
>> But contradicts the cat.
>>
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