Category Archives: Poetry

Simple Words Complex Feelings

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Thomas Meyer Essay Stanzas “Kept Apart” Invites us to contemplate the mythological. Thousands of gods. Worshiped. Adored. Adorned. Then swept aside. And then later, pages later, the interaction is particularized and the transitoriness rendered with even greater fragility… [T]he goddess … Continue reading →

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Foerster on Forcing

Posted on January 9, 2011 by Francois Lachance

The reading of the poem benefits from the poet’s note: “A Pot of Crocuses”: The women of ancient Athens celebrated the death and resurrection of Adonis in an annual springtime festival, during which they set out on their rooftops small … Continue reading →

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To Cook To Destroy

Posted on January 8, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Mind experiment. Thinking beyond thinking. if you think of saffron being crushed or the pounding of sugar cane think of what total annihilation brings “Kept Apart” Essay Stanzas Thomas Meyer the dark watches what the day does at night while … Continue reading →

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Truly Listening

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Francois Lachance

By a bedside in a hospital room where monitors peeped like famished birds Richard Foerster. The Burning of Troy. “Vigil” And so for day 1484 05.01.2011

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The Wounds of Love

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Gregory Orr. Orpheus and Eurydice What is remarkable is the reinvigorating of the unremarkable, quotidian. The magic of myth is close at hand. Consider “The Entrance to the Underworld” and its location: the beginning of love. You were looking in … Continue reading →

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Koans and Spuds

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Francois Lachance

Thomas Meyer Essay Stanzas The opening section is “Caught Between” and it is in this space that reversals are marshalled like fables and puzzles. My shadow, I used to think, backed me up from behind. Now I realize I am … Continue reading →

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Regressions and Leaping

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Helen Humphreys “Postscript” in the “Souvenirs” section of Nuns Looking Anxious Listening to Radios — these are the concluding words pointing to an event or space beyond words… When language has abandoned us and we can say perhaps just one … Continue reading →

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Postcolonial Posey

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Take the ending of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude, And … Continue reading →

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Forgot Begot

Posted on December 28, 2010 by Francois Lachance

reconstructions: gathering sparkling lines Julie Joosten Light Light A slip — an epithet binding — I debt unsung fragile and yet strong life ventures on a thread of song song cancelling out debt I didn’t know who I was or … Continue reading →

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Old Words and Ancient Smells

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Robert Kelly on old words: “They store the power of long attention to things in the world” (introduction to Thomas Meyer The Umbrella of Aesculapius). Maybe this is a bit of what led him to those reflections Sun & wind … Continue reading →

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