A Dialogue
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.
I'm no more your mother
Than the cloud that distils a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind's hand.
All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.
One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square
Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.
The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry
Took its place among the elements.
Our voices echo, magnifying your arrival. New statue.
In a drafty museum, your nakedness
Shadows our safety. We stand round blankly as walls.
I'm no more your mother
Than the cloud that distils a mirror to reflect its own slow
Effacement at the wind's hand.
All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen:
A far sea moves in my ear.
One cry, and I stumble from bed, cow-heavy and floral
In my Victorian nightgown.
Your mouth opens clean as a cat's. The window square
Whitens and swallows its dull stars. And now you try
Your handful of notes;
The clear vowels rise like balloons.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Monday, December 26, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Let us watch 'A Feast at Midnight': http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109784/
Friday, December 23, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Saturday, December 3, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Monday, November 28, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
She's Not You - Elvis Presley
Her hair is soft and her eyes are oh so blue.
She's all the things a girl should be, but she's not you.
She knows just how to make me laugh when I feel blue,
She's ev'rything a man could want, but she's not you.
And when we're dancing, it almost feels the same.
I've got to stop myself from whisp'ring your name
She even kisses me like you used to do.
And it's just breaking my heart 'cause she's not you.
And it's just breaking my heart 'cause she's not you.
And when we're dancing, it almost feels the same.
I've got to stop myself from whisp'ring your name.
She even kisses me like you used to do.
And it's just breaking my heart 'cause she's not you.
And it's just breaking my heart 'cause she's not you.
She's all the things a girl should be, but she's not you.
She knows just how to make me laugh when I feel blue,
She's ev'rything a man could want, but she's not you.
And when we're dancing, it almost feels the same.
I've got to stop myself from whisp'ring your name
She even kisses me like you used to do.
And it's just breaking my heart 'cause she's not you.
And it's just breaking my heart 'cause she's not you.
And when we're dancing, it almost feels the same.
I've got to stop myself from whisp'ring your name.
She even kisses me like you used to do.
And it's just breaking my heart 'cause she's not you.
And it's just breaking my heart 'cause she's not you.
Monday, November 21, 2011
Individuality by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh yes, I love you, and with all my heart;
Just as a weaker woman loves her own,
Better than I love my beloved art,
Which, till you came, reigned royally, alone,
My king, my master. Since I saw your face
I have dethroned it, and you hold that place.
I am as weak as other women are:
Your frown can make the whole world like a tomb;
Your smile shines brighter than the sun, by far.
Sometimes I think there is not space or room
In all the earth for such a love as mine,
And it soars up to breathe in realms divine.
I know that your desertion or neglect
Could break my heart, as women's hearts do break.
If my wan days had nothing to expect
From your love's splendor, all joy would forsake
The chambers of my soul. Yes, this is true.
And yet, and yet--one thing I keep from you.
There is a subtle part of me, which went
Into my long pursued and worshipped art;
Though your great love fills me with such content
No other love finds room now, in my heart.
Yet that rare essence was my art's alone.
Thank God, you cannot grasp it; 'tis mine own.
Just as a weaker woman loves her own,
Better than I love my beloved art,
Which, till you came, reigned royally, alone,
My king, my master. Since I saw your face
I have dethroned it, and you hold that place.
I am as weak as other women are:
Your frown can make the whole world like a tomb;
Your smile shines brighter than the sun, by far.
Sometimes I think there is not space or room
In all the earth for such a love as mine,
And it soars up to breathe in realms divine.
I know that your desertion or neglect
Could break my heart, as women's hearts do break.
If my wan days had nothing to expect
From your love's splendor, all joy would forsake
The chambers of my soul. Yes, this is true.
And yet, and yet--one thing I keep from you.
There is a subtle part of me, which went
Into my long pursued and worshipped art;
Though your great love fills me with such content
No other love finds room now, in my heart.
Yet that rare essence was my art's alone.
Thank God, you cannot grasp it; 'tis mine own.
Sunday, November 20, 2011
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Thursday, November 10, 2011
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