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1 Citation This night I've had a strange, leaden sleep,Dreams of angular shapes, vaguely threatening,And wincing mouths; aghast, I stood in swirlsOf cloudlike stuff, awaiting red day.But blood-dawn never came, only grey-Ice-backed, high-stacked, illumined, billowing curlsOf a cold and crowded slash of cheerless morning.But now I'm awake, and see you still asleep., technorati.com
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thile & meyer at benaroya: 10/6/08 1 Citation What lives you must lead!You snatch notes out of airwith blurred horsehair and tortoiseshell,furiously temperingthe silvered raindropsand bedrock groanings,alive with the terrorand thrill of the upheaval of it,lifting and finding and reaching.What happens after?Do you laugh over Dickens,hotel room windowsstorm-streaked and frosty?Sip beer from brown bottleswith animal labels?Sigh at cards?Or, unable to leave off,a fire in your arteriespulsating, do you once moreunsheath the scroll-leavedGibson,, technorati.com
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1 Citation The Middle makes tears turn to black stone, shining orbs of obsidian caught up in midair. With a timed word they shatter like rain, like water so splintered off from itself. I wonder, enigma, at your grit and your grace, the smokegrey thump of an untuned upright. Your youth rocks its sandalled feet around chords filled with parlors, and cries of a plaintive upheaval, and Jesuses leaving; the bottle's sharp beads of moisture staining the wood dustless brown. I'd wake my voice and join if I could, technorati.com
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1 Citation (image: Gerard Manley Hopkins) If memory serves, I first read the poetry of Hopkins when I was 17 and a freshman in college. I was a bit younger than other freshmen because I'd skipped second grade. I don't think they have students skip grades anymore, but I'm not sure about that. Anyway, when I read "Glory be to God for dappled things" (from "God's Grandeur"), I immediately was taken by Hopkins' poetry and his view of things, a view that is in many ways far from pious. Later I emb, technorati.com
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