daily homework blog section
Poetry response 3/05
Keeping Things Whole Mark Strand In a fieldI am the absenceof field.This isalways the case.Wherever I amI am what is missing. When I walkI part the airand alwaysthe air moves into fill the spaceswhere my body’s been. We all have reasonsfor moving.I moveto keep things whole. Strand is talking about the feeling of being present…
poetry response 3/03
Summer BY CONRAD AIKEN Absolute zero: the locust sings:summer’s caught in eternity’s rings:the rock explodes, the planet dies,we shovel up our verities. The razor rasps across the faceand in the glass our fleeting racelit by infinity’s lightning winkunder the thunder tries to think. In this frail gourd the granite poursthe timeless howls like all outdoorsthe sensuous…
poetry response 2/21
Watching the Sea Go by Dana Levin Thirty seconds of coil and surge, fern and froth, thirty seconds of salt, rock, fog, spray. Clouds moving slowly to the left— A door in a rock through which you could see __ another rock, laved by the weedy tide. Like filming breathing—thirty seconds…
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