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[1955]
he drapes
silk-strung pearls
over sepia
postcards of a gossamer spring.
[1981]
Sprechstimme;
he wakes
to the sound of his bedroom wall
singing
about blood-
pressure and autumn
slumber.
he drapes
silk-strung pearls
over sepia
postcards of a gossamer spring.
[1981]
Sprechstimme;
he wakes
to the sound of his bedroom wall
singing
about blood-
pressure and autumn
slumber.
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You can't have it all
but you can have the glazed heat bursting from the blacktop like a broken
fire hydrant. You can have the jangle of keys
swinging from your hip with each stride.
You can have the tactility of leather and the graze of
bathroom mosaic tiles under a cold shower pelting
bullets and when the water cuts off
you can have dry book pages. You can have happiness,
though it will often be bitter, like finding a stranger’s
wallet full of pictures of smiling children until you
return it to find that the couple is barren.
You can have the scratches on the back of his knuckles,
faded, yet raw. You can have the translucency of sheets
in the sun, silhoue
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ocean lungs
you weigh something like gravity
in my tired expanse. you are
sand;
(my once splendid mountain)
my love is the ocean
that has worn you down.
with my monstrous tongue,
i pulled you in.
as you fall,
sweeping peacefully into the depths
and filling each crevice,
i am learning to inhale shores.
some would say i'm suffocating
and bring me buckets of air (only to have it
escape my slippery grip).
no, the tides need something heavy
to make of her
a home.
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The World's Greatest Actor
The World’s Greatest Actor, now a father, prepared lunch for his three children. Humming to himself happily, he slathered pieces of bread with peanut butter and jelly. He put them each into individual plastic containers, then the containers into brightly coloured cloth bags along with plums and juice boxes. He wanted to make sure they ate healthy but enjoyed what they ate. He was rewarded with their smiles when his three children came running in. An elder girl in grade two, followed by a twin boy and girl who were in kindergarten, greeted him. He said good morning and picked them all up in a bear hug, kissing them each on the forehead.
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these two short poems are inspired from the recordings of the goldberg variations by glenn gould, recorded respectively in 1955 and 1981.
1981 has haunted me ever since I first heard it. glenn plays like he knew of the death that loomed over him in the next october.
happy 81st birthday, maestro.
9/25/13
EDIT - fyi:
1955 recording youtu.be/2XwojDoY3yQ
1981 recording youtu.be/N2YMSt3yfko
1981 has haunted me ever since I first heard it. glenn plays like he knew of the death that loomed over him in the next october.
happy 81st birthday, maestro.
9/25/13
EDIT - fyi:
1955 recording youtu.be/2XwojDoY3yQ
1981 recording youtu.be/N2YMSt3yfko
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Nothing on heaven or earth lies above the recordings Glenn Gould made of the works of Bach. My god how he would have loved modern music, that beautiful eccentric man. Bach no doubt smiles when chatting with Gould about the interpretation of his music, not in heaven or hell but that interdenominational hole in space time where all musicians come from, dream in, and to which they must one day return.