tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26125445890296184872024-03-05T17:36:47.657-08:00Aliki BarnstoneAlikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-26981287423045515302017-05-14T20:13:00.003-07:002017-05-14T20:13:59.713-07:00"I Can't Remember if it Was my Dream of my Mother's": A Poem for Mother's Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Matrilineal," drawing by Aliki Barnstone</td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-variant: small-caps; mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">I
Can’t Remember If it Was my Dream or my Mother’s<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Once recounted, the dream runs
constantly beyond <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">me or her. I creep up a stone
stairway, fever <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">pushing me higher up than I can bear to go. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">I’m afraid of
heights. Far below <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">my cliff-walk, the lake is rimmed with mountain pines,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">and my mother stands willowy
in a full skirt, calling me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">I can’t catch my breath. Her
voice is a breeze <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">rippling the water
and merging into twilight <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">that blurring all, exasperates
me. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">I want to go to her
yet keep climbing toward<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">fireflies and ferns, hot and chilled—<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">and still she hollers my name
with the crickets,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">step down,
darling, step down to Mama.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">My footing’s lost.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The stones are slick with moss, little waterfalls <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">surround me, too beautiful,
disorienting.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">If only my head lolled against
her shoulder or <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">my cheek pressed cool against
the car window,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">and patches of cloud hovered over the dirt roads of Vermont,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">then slipped through the
radiator grill or <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">beneath the carriage of our Buick Skylark,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we’d say we’re riding on clouds and hear <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">the tires roll onto our gravel driveway. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">The porch light would
part dusky velvet curtains <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">and the windshield be a movie screen where maples, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">each leaf-point star-tipped,
welcome us heroines home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Then I drink the Milky Way, my mother leaning over my bed<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">to shape the holy sign over me
three times<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">and make me feel God’s names hymning in my skin. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">She lays a washcloth on my
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">her perfume, the lilies of the valley on her wrist. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">My mother says fever
tangled my yellow hair<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">and stained the dress she made me before my brother’s birth.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">In case she died, she
said. A whirr. A seam <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">stitched in seconds. She works fast. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">My grandmother’s even
hand finishes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">the velvet piping around the collar, cuffs, and placket. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">My buttons are askew.
I can’t remember <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">if it was my worry or my mother’s, which of us acts, <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">sketches the scene, recalls,
and calls <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">cross over</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">—What are we waiting for,
gathered in the agora?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The Barbarians are arriving today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">—Why is nothing happening in
the Senate?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why do the Senators sit making no laws?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Because the Barbarians are arriving today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>What laws can the Senators make now?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>When the Barbarians come, they will make laws.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">—Why did our emperor wake up so
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in state on his throne, wearing his crown?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Because the Barbarians are arriving today,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and the emperor is waiting to receive<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>their leader. In fact, he prepared<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>a parchment to give them, where <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>he wrote down many titles and names.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">—Why did our two consuls and
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>come out today in their crimson, their
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>why do they hold precious staffs today,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>beautifully wrought in silver and gold?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Because the Barbarians are arriving today,<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and such things dazzle them.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to deliver their speeches and say their
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Because the Barbarians are arriving
today<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and they are bored by eloquence and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Collected-Poems-C-Cavafy-Translation/dp/0393328996/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1492630063&sr=8-1&keywords=aliki+barnstone+c.p.+cavafy" target="_blank">The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy:</a><br />
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-21235555453493695062017-04-09T17:46:00.002-07:002017-04-09T17:47:57.349-07:00"A Little More Mindful," a Poem from Dwelling for Palm Sunday <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A LITTLE MORE MINDFUL<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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If I could be a little more mindful,<o:p></o:p></div>
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groom my dogs’ fur, remember<o:p></o:p></div>
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to shelve my books, shut the closet<o:p></o:p></div>
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and cabinet doors, hide away<o:p></o:p></div>
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my mess of clothes and dishes,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and graciously address every annoyance<o:p></o:p></div>
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(or worse than annoyance), perhaps<o:p></o:p></div>
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my sandals would glide up marble steps<o:p></o:p></div>
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and I’d find myself idle,<o:p></o:p></div>
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holding my peace, my desperate<o:p></o:p></div>
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thoughts left to themselves<o:p></o:p></div>
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at the bottom of the hill, while I turnover<o:p></o:p></div>
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the spirits of those who do not cry out<o:p></o:p></div>
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praise for a king riding a donkey,<o:p></o:p></div>
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clothed in garments his mother wove,<o:p></o:p></div>
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her design covering his flesh from birth<o:p></o:p></div>
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until he hugged his shroud<o:p></o:p></div>
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on a road strewn with rags and palms<o:p></o:p></div>
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and wept over the city:<o:p></o:p></div>
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“If only you knew<o:p></o:p></div>
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Centuries before his word, their spirits dwell<o:p></o:p></div>
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in rubble, for countless wars<o:p></o:p></div>
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knock stone from stone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They perished so long ago, their wanderings<o:p></o:p></div>
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the Athenian shopkeepers sweep away<o:p></o:p></div>
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each morning, along with the art<o:p></o:p></div>
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of their looms: the saffron<o:p></o:p></div>
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and hyacinth yarns spun for the owl,<o:p></o:p></div>
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chariot and wingéd horses<o:p></o:p></div>
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on Athena’s raiment, the story-cloths<o:p></o:p></div>
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on which the Fates dance and lament,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and teach child-bearers<o:p></o:p></div>
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to weave defiance in a double purple web,<o:p></o:p></div>
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their textile and text incomprehensible to men.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Soldiers cannot divide the seamless robe<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-26307892099078094712017-03-31T15:58:00.000-07:002017-03-31T16:10:54.798-07:00"Eva's Voice": Ekphrastic Poems<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #060008; text-align: justify;">I</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #060008; text-align: justify;">n 2003, after seeing <a href="https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/marc-chagall/" target="_blank">Chagall exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,</a> I began writing a sequence of ekphrastic poems, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #060008; text-align: justify;">"Eva's Voice,"</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #060008; text-align: justify;"> in the voice of an imaginary poet, Eva Victoria Perera, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #060008; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #060008; text-align: justify;">a Sephardic Jew from Thessaloniki, who survives the Holocaust. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #060008; text-align: justify;">I was awarded a sabbatical from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (where I taught at the time) and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #060008; text-align: justify;">a Senior Fulbright </span><span class="style_3" style="background-color: white; color: #060008; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;">Scholarship </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #060008; text-align: justify;">for my project. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #060008; text-align: justify;">As a result I was able to spend</span><span class="style_3" style="background-color: white; color: #060008; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;"> nineteen months in Greece, from June 2005 to January 2007, working on </span><span class="style_7" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;">"Eva's Voice."</span><span class="style_7" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;"> You can read an essay I wrote about Eva and Marc Chagall, <a href="http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/eva&chagall.html" target="_blank">"How Eva Victoria Perera Learned to Fly with <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Chagall"</a> </span><span class="style_7" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;">in </span><a class="style_4" href="http://thedrunkenboat.com/" style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" title="http://thedrunkenboat.com/">The Drunken Boat.</a> <span class="style_8" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;"></span><span class="style_7" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;">If you scroll to the end of the essay, you’ll find Eva’s bio. In the same issue of </span><span class="style_8" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;">Boat,</span><span class="style_7" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;"> you can also read an essay I wrote about the problem of writing about the Holocaust and other such catastrophes, <a href="http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/witness.html" target="_blank">"In Defense of a Poetics of Witness."</a> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Here are three ekphrastic poems from "Eva's Voice," "The Blue House, "Day Break on Andros, 1944," and "Red Picnic, 1946," all of </span></span><span class="style_7" style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;">which appear as a section in my book<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dear-God-Dr-Heartbreak/dp/1931357684/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1490995516&sr=8-1&keywords=dear+god+dear+dr.+heartbreak" target="_blank"> </a></span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dear-God-Dr-Heartbreak/dp/1931357684/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1490995516&sr=8-1&keywords=dear+god+dear+dr.+heartbreak" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">Dr. God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems </a><span class="style_7" style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 19px; opacity: 1; text-align: justify;">(the Sheep Meadow Press, 2010), </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: justify;">along with some of the paintings that inspired them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The Blue House<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I can see a long way up here<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">where the blue house is balanced<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">on a bluff yellow with late summer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">fields that extend to the city.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">You can see me, for the door<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and the windows are open to air.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I sit in a chair and hold a cup<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of tea. Or is that you I see
inside<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and is that me, running downhill, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">away from the house, on the path<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">lined with hip-high wheat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Looming larger above me <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the closer I come is the jumble <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of buildings, a white cross atop <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">each sky-blue dome, the church <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">enclosed by Byzantine battlements.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Is that figure below the
cathedral, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">almost too small to see, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">raising an arm toward the city <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in joy? Or turning back <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to wave goodbye to the house? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Why does the modest cottage <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">seem so isolated from town? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Why is it painted such a radiant
blue?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The wood looks like the glass <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the evil eye, and the planes <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">aren’t square, but ramshackle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The foundation is shored up <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">against the hill, on the brink—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I can see the danger now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">And yet the blue house <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">invites us to look in, enter, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">have a seat and drink <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a cup of tea that tastes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">too beautiful on the tongue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">when you exclaim, “Ah, the view!”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The house was not blue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">My memory painted it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the color of the morning sea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Look, out there, far from shore,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the fisherman is <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">disappearing in his orange boat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">that floats along a gray smear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of light, marring the sapphire
depths.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In the impossible pigment <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">is the day we have to leave <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for good, to find other refuge.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">No, the blue house was not <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<h1>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Day
Breaks on Andros, 1944<o:p></o:p></span></h1>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">When all at once dogs bark from
the cobblestone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">labyrinth in my nightmare and donkeys
clop, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">more burdened than ever, and the
roosters panic<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">with church bells, footsteps, a
screaming lamb,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I think, they know who I am, and
they’ll take me away…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">at last, they’ve identified me,
however narrowly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Cerberus howls his unwanted
welcome;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the doves grunt with the weary
souls <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the underworld.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Then just as suddenly I wake, a
taste on my tongue<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">like something spoiled. The red
hibiscus flowering<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">outside the window spins a second
among sunrays,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">then stops. A gust of wind. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I’m on the island, safe for now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I reach for my glasses on the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">put them on, and the room’s colors
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Then I turn my head slowly on the
pillow,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">almost afraid to reassure myself.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">My daughter is asleep, there on
the small bed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">next to mine, her lips moving a
little, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">her braid coiled along her neck,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">on the chest of her doll. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I remember it is Easter Sunday and
the scream<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I heard was the lamb carried off
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Today I will celebrate, too,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and I will call out with the rest,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Christos anesti</i>!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">Christ has risen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">We’ve been passed over. I allow<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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mine<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and I sink beneath it for a few
more hours,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-39980518037359516602016-09-16T14:17:00.000-07:002016-09-17T21:28:38.320-07:00"Name Change," a poem from my book of poems, Dwelling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the plaque in entry of my grandfather's, Robert Barnstone's, jewelry<br />
and watch store in Lewiston, Maine.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-variant-caps: small-caps;"><i>Because in this election, a religious group is being demonized, I offer this family history from my new book of poems, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Dwelling-Aliki-Barnstone/dp/1937679632/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1474059060&sr=8-1&keywords=aliki+barnstone+dwelling" target="_blank">Dwelling</a>. Our family name was changed in 1912, one year before the <a href="http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/leo-frank-case" target="_blank">Leo Frank case.</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Maine" target="_blank">Maine's nativists evolved into the KKK,</a> which in this northern state directed its hate and violence toward<a href="http://maineanencyclopedia.com/ku-klux-klan/" target="_blank"> Catholics and Jews (because they were regarded as recent immigrants), as well as its few African-American residents. </a>I thought when I was growing up that my grandfather wanted to change the family name because he was ambitious and wanted to be respectable—and I'm sure those considerations figured into his reasoning—yet there was also a back-history of dangerous anti-Semitism. You can read more about anti-Semitism in Maine here, <a href="http://mainejews.org/ThemeIndex5.php?theme=anti-semitism" target="_blank">at Documenting Maine Jewry</a>.</i></span><br />
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">the family name from
Bornstein, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">meaning <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">amber <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">burning stone</i> in German<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">,</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">to Barnstone, also meaning <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">amber.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">In 1912, he, his father,
step-mother,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">and all his siblings stood
before a judge <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">in Auburn, Maine, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and Anglicized the vowels <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">within their name’s consonants
to conceal <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">being Jews within their souls
and behind the walls <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">of home <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">(shades drawn to hide Shabbat
candlelight.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">The gems’s classical name was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">electron,<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">“beaming sun,” yet the
Heliades grief <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">made them poplars and their
tears golden amber.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">Two centuries before, the
Emperor<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">Joseph the Second decreed that
all Jews<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">immediately abandon <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hebrew names<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">and adopt a constant German
surname.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">Tax them and keep track of
them like the rest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">of Christendom, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>except keep the Jews humble.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">No Jew may take the surname of
a noble<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">or renowned family. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No Jew may keep<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">a name if someone complains it
was his.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">All circumcision books and all
birth books<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">will be in German forever and
ever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">The Jews will be registered,
just as Jesus<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">was born in Bethlehem, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>city of David,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">where Joseph and Mary traveled
to sign<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">the census decreed by Caesar
Augustus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">Did the ancestors know the
parallel—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">register to be taxed (and
rounded up later)—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">when they chose lovely names:
apple or pear<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">tree, rose, gold leaf, green
field, or blooming valley.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">My jeweler Zaide was a great
magician<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">with diamonds, so I am told. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">in 1788, our ancestors<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">had been able to afford <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Diamond—<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">the hardest stone, dispersing
spectral color—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">would my grandfather have
heard the brilliant name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">as Jewish? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and would he have chosen for us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">Davies, Day, or even plain
Smith instead?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">Every time I look down at my
left hand,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">I behold <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the ring he gave my grandmother:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">a platinum setting shaping a
sun.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">The diamond conceals <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>fire within<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">until, awakened by rays, it
bursts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">into rainbows and stars
scattered on the walls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";">all around me: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; tab-stops: 9.0pt 13.5pt; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Nanum Myeongjo";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the covenant with Noah:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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aunt, Beatrice Barnstone Kammerman, and the litte one in front<br />
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-90728158390068446682016-06-19T12:54:00.000-07:002016-06-19T12:54:25.840-07:00"Poetry Game," a Poem for my Father<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><i>On the occasion of my every birthday, my father writes me a poem. I remember when I was still a very small girl, around 4, he would read me "my companion of the hills / I take your hand," and he'd take my hand. He also transcribed my poems, as he did my daughter, Zoe's, when she was little. From the beginning he encouraged us all to sing, to be artists. On Father's Day, I offer a poem for my dad that gives a glimpse of our creative lives, when we spent our summers in Vermont. </i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Poetry
Game</span></i><span style="font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">—for Dad and Blanche<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I could eat the words,<o:p></o:p></div>
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if one were
“strudel.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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If it were “cheese,” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I couldn’t stop
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recalling my friends’ birthday
parties,<o:p></o:p></div>
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how the farmer
takes a wife, <o:p></o:p></div>
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the choosing game, and my shame <o:p></o:p></div>
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to be the homely
cheese <o:p></o:p></div>
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standing alone on a braided rug <o:p></o:p></div>
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breathing in sour
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not the savory thyme and oregano, <o:p></o:p></div>
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not the sweet <o:p></o:p></div>
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almond, filo, and honey <o:p></o:p></div>
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of our home, my
father <o:p></o:p></div>
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leaning down to read <o:p></o:p></div>
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my page <o:p></o:p></div>
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of scrawls and doodles. <o:p></o:p></div>
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“Bird?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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he’d ask, fountain pen poised,<o:p></o:p></div>
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“What kind of
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“Chickadee,” I’d say,<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>or
“whippoorwill.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Their names were their songs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chickadee, <o:p></o:p></div>
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his black and white head<o:p></o:p></div>
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at home in
daylight, <o:p></o:p></div>
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I could see when he sang,<o:p></o:p></div>
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his sharpened
beak writing <o:p></o:p></div>
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letters that disappeared the
instant <o:p></o:p></div>
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they were formed
on air.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Whippoorwill I knew to be<o:p></o:p></div>
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a homely bird <o:p></o:p></div>
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who sings only in the dark, <o:p></o:p></div>
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invisibly,
somewhere <o:p></o:p></div>
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in a thorny locust or fragrant
pine<o:p></o:p></div>
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so beautiful, a
little <o:p></o:p></div>
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mournful. But why<o:p></o:p></div>
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the mean picture:
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">whip poor Will?<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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I tried to think
of another pun<o:p></o:p></div>
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less punishing. If I wrote
“flowers,” <o:p></o:p></div>
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I understood to
cross it out<o:p></o:p></div>
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before Dad questioned the word,
unless <o:p></o:p></div>
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it were a verb or
arranged,<o:p></o:p></div>
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a bunch of flowers I’d picked <o:p></o:p></div>
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in our field,
dried up in a homely jar.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d say “tiger lilies,” seeing <o:p></o:p></div>
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their orange
blooming <o:p></o:p></div>
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around the boulder where water
pooled <o:p></o:p></div>
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after a storm. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d say “hollyhocks” <o:p></o:p></div>
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because when I
crossed <o:p></o:p></div>
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our dirt road to find Blanche
Bleikhart, <o:p></o:p></div>
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I passed their
sunny faces <o:p></o:p></div>
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and tall stalks propped up against
<o:p></o:p></div>
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her weathered
clapboard home, <o:p></o:p></div>
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her drunk husband <o:p></o:p></div>
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bellowing behind
the walls. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d say “marigolds,” “pansies,” <o:p></o:p></div>
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“poppies,” and
“petunias,” <o:p></o:p></div>
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because she’d be kneeling in the
dirt,<o:p></o:p></div>
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humming <o:p></o:p></div>
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a hymn to the Green Mountains <o:p></o:p></div>
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spread above her,<o:p></o:p></div>
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a velvet veil across the temple<o:p></o:p></div>
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of sky. She
looked up<o:p></o:p></div>
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and spoke with me,<o:p></o:p></div>
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murmuring to
calico <o:p></o:p></div>
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kittens winding round her ankles<o:p></o:p></div>
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as she weeded and
harvested.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I’d say “Jack-in-the-Pulpit,”<o:p></o:p></div>
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holy and purple,
appearing <o:p></o:p></div>
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in sheltered groves, because <o:p></o:p></div>
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the bark peeled
away from birches <o:p></o:p></div>
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reminded me of the lines <o:p></o:p></div>
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of dark earth on
her knuckles,<o:p></o:p></div>
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and she gently placed some seed
pods<o:p></o:p></div>
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in my young palm,
<o:p></o:p></div>
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with instructions,<o:p></o:p></div>
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a simple homily.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Because bordering the rows of
homely beans, <o:p></o:p></div>
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squash, peppers,
and tomatoes, <o:p></o:p></div>
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my elderly friend raised the
companion <o:p></o:p></div>
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flowers I’d later
learn <o:p></o:p></div>
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keep pests away from our food—<o:p></o:p></div>
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and someday I’d
grow <o:p></o:p></div>
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to be an old lady, gifted <o:p></o:p></div>
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with a green
thumb <o:p></o:p></div>
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and sunflowers three times as tall</div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> as I stand,
shaded by a straw hat.</span></div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-29358673331689254232016-05-22T23:01:00.000-07:002016-05-23T10:50:44.343-07:00A Gender Neutral Rendering of a Passage from Proverbs that Deals with Wisdom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">As a woman and the daughter of a Christian mother and a Jewish father, I have been tormented in church (Episcopal) by two things: the masculine pronoun to refer to God and the passages, especially in John, that serve as the foundation for anti-Semitism. Today when I heard this beautiful passage from Proverbs, I was inspired (and I mean INSPIRED) to do a gender neutral translation. My problem is that when I have to say "Our Father" to refer to the Most High, I feel that I am l</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><span style="color: #1d2129;">ying. I don't believe that God is a man! Jesus may be the masculine and the Holy Spirit and Wisdom (Sophia) may be feminine, but the Source must not have a gender. Some of the teachings say that God doesn't have a gender, but we use "he" as a gender neutral pronoun. This has been thoroughly debunked by now, I hope. I am very happy with this translation. I did a little research on the names of God (which I really didn't have to do, but I always research even the things I think I already know because I can always learn more). I felt that this translation was truly a devotional practice, expanding God to be larger than the masculine pronoun. I felt the spirit of Sophia coursing through me! I was inspired also by </span>Cathy Rosenholtz's<span style="color: #1d2129;"> sermon on the Holy Trinity in which she said, "We have made God so small." I have no doubt that God is so small, so large, so beyond human comprehension, yet always letting us into Their Mystery.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Does not Wisdom call,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and does not understanding raise her voice?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the heights, beside the way,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>at the crossroads she takes her stand;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beside the gates in front of the town,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>at the entrance of the portals she cries out:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"To you, O people, I call,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>and my cry is to all that live.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The MOST HIGH created me at the beginning of Their work,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>the first of Their acts of long ago.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ages ago I was set up,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>at the first, before the beginning of the earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When there were no depths I was brought forth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>when there were no springs abounding with water.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Before the mountains had been shaped,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>before the hills, I was brought forth--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when the CREATOR had not yet made earth and fields,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>or the world's first bits of soil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When the LIGHT established the heavens, I was there,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>when the NAME drew a circle on the face of the deep,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when the ANCIENT OF DAYS made firm the skies above,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>when the OVERSOUL established the fountains of the deep,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when the SOURCE assigned to the sea its limit,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>so that the waters might not transgress Their command,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">when the SUPREME BEING marked out the foundations of the earth,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>then I was beside Them, like a master worker;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and I was daily the HOLY PARENT’S delight,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>rejoicing before Them always,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">rejoicing in Their inhabited world</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.32px;"> </span>and delighting in the human race."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My friend Claire Schaffer wrote: <span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; line-height: 16.08px;">Thanks, Kiki, for this translation. As much as I agree on the gender points you make, I wonder if you view God as a being (as in SUPREME BEING)? Also, can you be comfortable with "their" as the singular gender/neutral pronoun?</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; line-height: 16.08px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; line-height: 16.08px;">I answered: </span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; line-height: 16.08px;">I asked myself about whether to go further in my explanation about the experience of translating the names of God, but left my commentary as it was for a time. I'm grateful for you question because things reveal themselves with dialogue. With regard to God a being, yes, I do feel comfortable about that because one of the names of God is "I am" (as in Exodus, God tells Moses to tell the people that "I AM" sent him. As for the Supreme part, that word has some negative associations, but I think that that name should apply to God, though perhaps not to humans. My answer to the question about "their/them" as the gender neutral pronoun is two-fold. On the grammatical level, I used to correct my students when they wrote a construction such as "Everyone has a right to their free speech." But I realized that "they/their" is emerging as the gender neutral pronoun and that's just the way that language develops. Some experts on grammar are now saying that "they/their" as the gender neutral pronoun is correct. But apart from that, there are precedents in other languages as well as English for pronouns that are both plural and singular. For example, "you" is both singular and plural, though certain regions of the country make disctinctions (y'all, youse). There is also the "royal we." In Spanish and other Romance languages the formal and the plural second person are the same pronoun (usted in Spanish). On a theological level, I think it makes sense to use "they/their" as the gender neutral pronoun, and there's ample scriptural and theological justification for that usage in the Old and New Testaments. In Genesis 1:26, God says "Let us make humanity in our image." God has both feminine and masculine aspects in the Jewish tradition. In the Christian tradition, the Holy Trinity is the three-personed God. I love what the Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew says that God is a love relationship and therefore is Love (my paraphrase). There are some icons that depict the Holy Trinity as three very androgenous beings, the most famous one is by the 14th-15th Century Russian icon painter, Andrei Rublev.</span><span style="background-color: #f6f7f9; line-height: 16.08px;"> </span></span></div>
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-40648303278377493912016-03-25T20:41:00.001-07:002016-05-22T23:13:29.093-07:00Holy Friday, a poem<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Holy
Friday</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>bloomed
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in twilight, a little thornless
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And a robin landed on one branch <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to announce the spring,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">to repeat the good news,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and women
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">as all the souls
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gold starved the rest,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">he allowed into
the cloud, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">let them be poor and naked and
sick,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">let them hold a
dogwood branch as a scepter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">--Aliki Barnstone, the poem originally appeared in <i>Great River Review, </i>and will appear in her forthcoming book, <i>Dwelling, </i>the Sheep Meadow Press, 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">NOTE:</span></span> The poem refers to the
Legend of the Dogwood and to the icons of the “Harrowing of Hell,” in which
Jesus is depicted raising Adam and Eve from their tombs.<br />
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-88330417564291241322016-03-24T17:50:00.002-07:002018-03-29T22:50:13.064-07:00Gethsemane Psalm<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Gethsemane
Psalm<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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After they ate the Seder meal,
whose order is very long,<o:p></o:p></div>
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they sang the
closing psalm, and walked together <o:p></o:p></div>
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until they came
to the grove.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus prayed for them and still
wanted to talk<o:p></o:p></div>
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to his students,
his friends. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The rhododendrons closed their
petals;<o:p></o:p></div>
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the blood red
poppies in the fields beyond<o:p></o:p></div>
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had faded at
twilight.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jasmine, thyme, cedar, and
chamomile scented <o:p></o:p></div>
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the dark air of
Gethsemane.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The adolescent boys, who’d eaten
and drunk a lot, <o:p></o:p></div>
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were exhausted
with the hours, bearing <o:p></o:p></div>
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the history of
the Jewish people, <o:p></o:p></div>
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and they slept
beneath the canopy of olives.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The cyclamen stood sentry beside
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>like
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>on
one leg. “Stay awake with me<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>and
pray,” their Rabbi said.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Even loyal Peter, who blurted out
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was drooling on
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In sorrow until death, Jesus was
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>the
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>who
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“I am the way and the truth and
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yet he anguished:
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no praise for my deeds.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">like the other insurgents and thieves</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>sleeping
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<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>though
he knew—as He knows all—that to wake <o:p></o:p></div>
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and see him fully
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than could be
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<o:p>--Aliki Barnstone, from her book of poems, <i>Dwelling, </i>the Sheep Meadow Press, 2016</o:p></div>
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-3730629297186216032016-03-20T14:56:00.000-07:002016-03-20T14:57:32.995-07:00"A Little More Mindful," a poem for Palm Sunday, Mary, and Athena<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Downtown churches celebrate Palm Sunday, corner of 9th<br />and Broadway, Columbia, MO, 2015. Photo by Aliki Barnstone </span></td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">A Little More Mindful<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">—busy yourself with your
daily duties, your loom, your distaff…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">for war is man's matter…</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">—Iliad, Book VI <o:p></o:p></i></div>
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If I could be a little more
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groom my dogs’
fur, remember<o:p></o:p></div>
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to shelve my
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--by Aliki Barnstone, forthcoming in <i>New Letters</i> </div>
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and in her book, <i>Dwelling, </i>forthcoming with the Sheep Meadow Press, 2016</div>
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<span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 21.28px;">Athena holding a helmet and a spear, with an owl. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: #f9f9f9; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 21.28px;">Attic red-figure lekythos. </span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.28px;">between circa 490 and circa 480 BCE. </span></div>
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NOTE: <span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "garamond"; font-size: x-small;">“A Little More Mindful”: The biblical accounts of
Palm Sunday are found in Matthew 21:1-11, Mark 11:1-11, Luke 19:28-44, and John
12:12-19. Luke 19:42 Jesus says, </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "garamond"; font-size: x-small;">“If only you
knew on this day those things creating peace.” (The translation is Willis
Barnstone’s.)</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "garamond"; font-size: x-small;"> Jesus’s seamless robe appears in
John 19:23. In some traditions, the Virgin Mary wove Jesus’s seamless robe, and
he wore it his whole life; symbolically, Mary clothed Jesus in flesh. For more
on Athena and story-cloths see Evy Johanne H</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: x-small;">ǻ</span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "garamond"; font-size: x-small;">land, “Athena’s
Peplos: Weaving as a Core Female Activity in Ancient and Modern Greece,” </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "garamond"; font-size: x-small;">Cosmos: The journal of
the Traditional Cosmology Society </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "garamond"; font-size: x-small;">20, 2006:
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-51074101003980384582015-11-01T17:41:00.001-08:002015-11-01T17:47:35.184-08:00"Windows on the Past" by Aliki Barnstone in honor of All Saints' Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Windows
on the Past</span></i></span></div>
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I must have written these lines on
a gray autumn day, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">knowing the way
darkness falls, as the expression goes, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">like a shade drawn across the
window too early </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">one day, and
earlier the next, steadily dimming </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the illumined clouds that released
angels in summer, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">whose wingspans
grew too wide and whose spirits </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">became the fog gathering in the
churchyard I saw </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">through the
window. I’d stand against the wall </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">just to keep standing, feeling
worse than melancholy. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I wrote, “a sugar
maple is inflamed with its own color,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">with expansive yellow passion”
—the desire </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">of a younger
woman in a sad marriage </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I’d rather not remember. When
music on the radio </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">was beautiful, I thought,
“none of this is new,” </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">not even a flute painting in my mind’s
eye: </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Chagall’s swooping
brushstroke encircling the lovers</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in a protected, unbroken globe, a
huge green bird </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">perched above, or
Matisse’s dancers, hands clasped, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">circling fast, each one reaching
for the other, leaning</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">into the momentum
of their shared joy,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">or the tender hands of mother and
child portrayed </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">so often. “None
of this new,”<i> </i>nor is the prayer,</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“let none of these be harmed.” If
only such human-</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">made marvels
could save us, be our mirrors, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">the promise of the saints, as the
holy icons are </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">our windows
opening to heaven and a new earth. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I count the years to recall—that
was which war </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">or which eve of
war? “If the air is still and a leaf drops </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">through an unmoving tree, it’s
because it’s tired and it’s time.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What a bleak
parable, I must have penned numb, too weary </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">to “lay aside every weight,” as
St. Paul tells his fellow Jews, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and “run with
patience the race that is set before us.”</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Why is the question, “when will I
find peace?” </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">fixed on the
self, not on beyond? I hold my head, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">heavy as the world in my hands,
and mutter words, futile, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I suppose,
against the murderous judgments of leaders</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">who have their own words based on
scripture, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and who swear—so
help me, God—just as I do, </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">and hope to join our voices with
“so great </span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">
</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">a cloud of witnesses”
as encompasses us all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-variant: small-caps;"> --Aliki Barnstone, from </span></i><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Winter, with Child</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">PURPLE CROCUSES</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Seduced by El Niño’s eastern balm,
they bloom early.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">One morning they appear, sudden
like shining wet paint <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">splashed across the newly green
lawn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">They’ve naturalized, their opulent
purples <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">each year more abundant with
drunken bees<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">buzzing between six pointed
petals.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Purple crocuses with shocking
orange centers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">were here before I stuck my shovel
in this dirt,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">perhaps before the old widow,
Elvira Lockwood,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">who dug here before me and left a
wind chime<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">for her ghost to breathe against <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">while the red-throated house
finches warble,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">who, a neighbor woman told me,
loved birds and flowers<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">and planted the climbing rose of
pale pink and milk <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">that never bloomed for us until
our daughter’s birth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">Even as the hands touch wood, say
this house is mine— <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">the barn, the fence, the rose
trellis my love built <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">for the warm-petalled Joseph’s
coat to climb,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">the dirt under my feet—these
purple crocuses <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">spread under the fence to share
themselves with neighbors, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">unownable fleeting musical notes
for the eye to hear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">@Aliki Barnstone</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span><br /><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-56038010633786105192013-11-27T19:31:00.001-08:002013-11-27T19:34:59.905-08:00"WEEDS," A POEM FOR MY FRIENDS ON THANKSGIVING<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Weeds</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I
like dandelions, though most say they’re weeds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In
Greece they’re called wild greens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">with
extra virgin olive oil, lemon, and salt,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">yet
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">a
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">the
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">would
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">and
the weeds would be the seconds that spread<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">into
minutes and hours and choke the life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">out
of what I most cherish. Perhaps.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">perfectly,
I wonder if my concoction would be <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">eternity
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">of
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">to
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-91937269354562325862012-04-15T14:44:00.002-07:002012-04-15T14:44:44.624-07:00"Greek Easter": A Poem from Blue Earth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://psalterstudies.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/red-easter-eggs/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Source: Selah: Thoughts on the Psalms and their Use<br /> by Christians through the Ages</span></a></td></tr>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Greek Easter<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">All the Greeks in Bloomington
come here,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">to Peter Costas's for
Easter. Whole garbage cans <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">of roasted lamb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">beside long tables of food, and
ingredients—feta, filo, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">olives—ordered from faraway
Chicago. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We say, <i>"Kalo Pascha.</i>" <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Vassili pinches both my cheeks
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We click our eggs together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I ask my mother, "Why are
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"The red is the red of
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">"Yes," she answers
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">The sorrows, the strategies, the
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">each is a red egg<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">At dusk dancing begins. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">where my brothers and some other
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">compete to pee the highest,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I look at my white shoes. I can
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">~Aliki Barnstone, from <i>Blue Earth</i> (Iris Press, 2004) and <i>Dear God: Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems </i>(Sheep Meadow Press, 2009)</span></o:p></div>
</div>Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-57738596507917948342012-02-27T07:26:00.000-08:002012-02-27T07:26:44.697-08:00Clean Monday<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Garamond; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Monday" target="_blank">Clean Monday </a>or Bright Monday is the first day of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lent" target="_blank">Great Lent </a>in Eastern Orthodoxy and is a national holiday in Greece. People clean their homes, fly kites, and go on outdoor excursions. Shellfish and octopus are Lenten foods.</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">Dark ceases in his light, so they say. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">I want to belong to him lifelong. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">Same old song, old song, old song.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">Black leaves in daylight. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">Black leaves rot on the lawn.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">Why have I done so much wrong?<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">Why do I see dark branches in blue sky,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">lead filaments joining stained glass, <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">a cosmos that shows not the ark,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">not radiant halos of the saints, <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">not his hand and kiss, his grace.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">In my daylit trance the dark branches split<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">and split again, the patterns of my years <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">I should convert. I’ve been a bride<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">more than once, an unblessed fool <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">whose house is a mess. It is Clean Monday, <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">the first day of Lent, time to repent with joy,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">as they do in Greece, to scour our rooms <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">of moth and rust, then go outside, uncorrupt, <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">and eat shellfish and octopus by the sea,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">where clean-hearted souls fill the sky <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">with kites. If only he would invite me<br />
to a picnic, too, and we’d eat Lenten food<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">beneath a plane tree ready for spring.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><div style="text-align: right;"></div>Maybe then I’d forget that same old song <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">gone wrong, oh Lord, and set aside my wit<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;">that won’t submit to trust or let me be adored.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 94.5pt;"><i>—</i>from <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dear-god-dear-dr-heartbreak-aliki-barnstone/1102080792?ean=9781931357685&itm=1&usri=dear+god+dear+dr+heartbreak" target="_blank"><i>Dear God, Dear Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems</i>, Sheep Meadow Press, 2009</a>.</div></div>Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-16181634758172435092012-01-18T23:54:00.000-08:002012-01-18T23:54:06.024-08:00Come and See, Friends: Coming Out as a Christian, 1st Installment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: right;"></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #274e13;">...contemporary Christianity has lost its way. <span style="background-color: white;">Christians don't wake up every morning thinking about how to become a more decent human being. Instead, they wake up trying to "work on their relationship with God" which very often has nothing to do with treating people better. How could such a confusion have occurred? How did we end up going so wrong?</span></span> </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: x-small;">—<a href="http://experimentaltheology.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Richard Beck,</a> <a href="http://www.sojo.net/blogs/2011/12/27/bait-and-switch-contemporary-christianity" target="_blank">"The Bait and Switch of Contemporary Christianity"</a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: large;"><i>I am a Christian.</i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Why is that so hard to say? Why do I have to clear my throat, stammer, and sit here at the computer, feeling slammed by the negative (to me) cultural associations with Christianity? </span><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;">"You are sealed by the Holy Spirit in Baptism and marked</span></span></div><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small; text-align: -webkit-auto;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One reason I feel a catch in my throat is that my father is Jewish, and I identify as a secular Jew. Much to both my father and my Christian mother's dismay, in 2004, I began study to be a bat-mitzvah. But—I like to quip—a funny thing happened on the way to the bat-mitzvah, and I got baptized instead—which was not exactly on my to-do list. Though </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">history shows the devastation that results from the faith's split,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I take every opportunity to say that</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Christianity is a development of Judaism. Though many translations and teachings obscure the fact, the bible was written by Jews for Jews about Jews, as these essential verses from Matthew demonstrate:</span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17px;">Rabbi, which is the great commandment in the Torah? And Yeshua said to them, </i><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>And with all your soul and with all your mind." </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>This is the great and first commandment.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>And the second is like it: </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"Love your neighbor like yourself." All the law </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>And all the prophets hang on these two commandments. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Oy vey, have I got problems—first, there's the ancestral problem, then there's progressive problem: I am continually distressed by the way that Rabbi Jesus's words and message are distorted by others who call themselves Christians.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">One way of summarizing Richard Beck's complaint about contemporary Christianity would be to say that </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">some</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Christians take to heart the first part of the great commandment of the Torah, but not the second, though the ethical imperative to love others is repeated throughout the bible.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> In that it can be seen as divisive, my last sentence is in itself a distortion, I am sad to say.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <a href="http://sojo.net/blogs/gods-politics" target="_blank">God's Politics</a> and <a href="http://www.tikkun.org/tikkundaily/" target="_blank">Tikkun Daily</a> are among my suggested blogs is because it makes me feel less—<i>ah-hem—</i>apologetic to be one many</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> people of faith who works to heal the world. But that last sentence is not quite what I want to say. Even people who strenuously disagree can come together to heal the world—take for example, <a href="http://www.habitat.org/" target="_blank">Habitat for Humanity</a>, which people support from across the political/religious spectrum—and for which we at<a href="http://calvaryonninth.org/" target="_blank"> Calvary Episcopal Church</a> are holding a <a href="http://calvaryonninth.org/news/habitat_for_humanity_chili_supper/" target="_blank">fund-raising chili supper, on Friday, January 27th, from 4:30-8:00 p.m.</a> Okay, enough</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> throat-clearing</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">—end of apologia, preamble, handwringing—let me write about last Wednesday night at Calvary.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Every Wednesday night at 5:30, a small group of us regularly gathers for the Holy Eucharist, with anointing and prayers for healing. Just as our Sunday service, with</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> music and singing, coffee and socializing,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> is a </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">staple of my spiritual life</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, so, too, is Wednesday's short, quiet service. Usually the sermon is more informal, spoken from</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> notes, and delivered mid-nave</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> rather than from the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">pulpit. Since we are past Christmas, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">w</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hen Mary J and I settled in our usual pew, I noticed </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the garlands of greens have been taken down </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and missed breathing in their smell</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are in </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Epiphany, now, Ordinary Time, whose color is green:</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> in place of white cloths are our needlepointed greens—</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Rejoice </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on the lectern, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I am the vine, you are the branches </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on the altar frontal, and </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Lord delights in you </i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">on the lectern. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There is so much to love here: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"ordinary time," </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the way the colors change with the calendar, the wood and stones and the stained glass. With every service my senses take in the familiar, and discover something new. Today looking up at our vaulted wooden ceiling, I discovered carved scroll on-lays in the corners of the trusses. I love to search around to remind myself of these descriptive words: nave, frontal, vaulted, scrolls, on-lays, trusses—what abundance for a poet. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; clear: right; color: black; display: inline !important; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhta2oybJvdJAtlDfhfwwxEgy3k0eLLBQHU6-iXgMsAtYzdWmvmw7QbSofzOF-WW7d-mcARwo3zp0ot8pTVkODjGhXLz344j6WIuB6qKhmhMuinjvPAt0NBH5h24V7DSoUwnrVvc-wLK80/s1600/vinehori*.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> </a></span><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Father Knute is an excellent writer and rhetorician, so I "don't have to check my brains at the door," as Robin Williams jokes in his <a href="http://www.stjohnschurch-sandwich.com/10Reasons.html" target="_blank">Top Ten Reasons to be an Episcopalian</a>. Last Wednesday, he<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> gave a simple sermon on the <a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearB_RCL/Epiphany/BEpi2_RCL.html" target="_blank">lessons</a>. He pointed out that Nathaniel the skeptic comes to faith through a friend, as some of us do. When Phillip tells him that Jesus is the prophesied one, Nathaniel says, "Can anything good come out Nazareth?" Phillip replies, "Come and see." Father Knute told us about a college friend who came back from vacation changed and happier. When Knute asked why, the friend said he'd found Jesus. And Knute thought to himself, "Oh, no"—that's the kind of moment in a sermon that makes Episcopalians feel good, at least those who—like me—are reluctant converts. But his friend, like Phillip, managed to get him to "come and see," and now he's a priest. We</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> chuckled when he said, "The word evangelism makes Episcopalians uncomfortable," which made some of us—me, for example—more comfortable. He ended the sermon by suggesting that we could invite a friend who'd never experienced "Christian fellowship" (another uncomfortable term for me) to our chili supper, "Invite a friend. Come and see."</span> </span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I'm not doing a very good job of explaining why</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Father Knute's short and informal sermon was so powerful—maybe it was moving because it was <i>unwritten, </i>spoken between friends. He asked,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "How did you come to faith? Did Jesus speak to you directly? Or was it through a friend?" Yes and yes. Well, I could fill a book with my faith journey (and would like to one day), but last Wednesday, my epiphany was the memory of an earlier one that came via a friend, <a href="http://www.roanoke.com/extra/wb/297764" target="_blank">Jan Fuller,</a> fourteen years ago, Easter. At the time, Jan was the chaplain at Hollins University. I had a job interview there and stayed the weekend so our two families could spend some time together. I went to Jan's Easter sermon because I wanted to hear my friend preach. Much to my surprise, I cried all the way through service—the prayers, the hymns, and especially the sermon. </span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I couldn't figure out what had happened. I wasn't accustomed to people who talked about God, except abstractly or academically. I was socialized to think that people like me didn't believe in God. I wasn't disrespectful of religious people. I just didn't imagine that faith was an option. Many years before Easter of 1998, when I was in college, my boyfriend and I were playing frisbee on the green, when a young man approached us with a clipboard. "Do you mind if I ask you a question for a survey I'm conducting?</span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Okay."</span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Do you believe in God?"</span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Yes," my boyfriend replied. I was stunned. Could someone I loved and respected and even shared a bed with <i>believe in God?</i> </span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Did you mean it?" I asked, when our statistician had gone.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Mean what?"</span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "You believe in God?"</span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Yes."</span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "<i>Really?"</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> "</i>Yes."</span></div><div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> </i>When I returned to Lewisburg from my Hollins interview, I was at a garden gathering of some Bucknell colleagues and their families. My host I'll call Linda. Once when my father was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">visiting</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, he'd said something disparaging about faith, assuming, of course, that no one present was religious. "I'm very devout," she said. C</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">onfounded as I was, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">when I saw a way, I drew her aside. I </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">confided, "You're one of the few people I know who won't think I'm crazy," and told her what had happened on Easter. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Yes, I know. It's very powerful, " she</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">said </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">quietly, as if my story had happened to her, too, and to others.</span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Perhaps if I'd stayed in Lewisburg, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I would have continued my conversation with Linda,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> or if I'd gotten the job at Hollins, I'd have spoken with Jan or attended more services. But a couple months later, I moved to South Dakota, and a year after that to Las Vegas. I explained my Easter experience to myself <i>metaphorically</i>. I was in transition, sad to leave Bucknell where I'd taught for five years. I had a baby. Easter is about renewal and hope. The sermon had been about the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">spring, the flowers, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">seasons, the cycles of life. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In 2008, having come to faith, I asked Jan to send me that sermon. There was nothing metaphorical about it, nothing about spring. No, the sermon, "A Life of Surprise," began with angels saving all the people when their church was struck by a tornado, just the kind of thing that would bring out the sneering skeptic in me. "My friends, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Jesus is alive!"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">" I can now hear Jan proclaiming. "If Jesus </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">is alive, he is not just a figure of the past, not merely a memory we can analyze and manipulate." Here's a bit more:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> <i> It will be a life of surprise, if Jesus is alive and we want to be his friends. We already know that every real and lasting friendship means living with surprises. No friend is that predictable, that unchanging, that imprisoned except the dead. The same is true for Jesus. He is constant and surprising, alive and well, unbound and free, unlimited and lovely.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> We could act like he was dead and not subject ourselves to the roller coaster of friendship with him. Or we could embrace him alive, and turn in shock and surprise every time he calls out our name. Sometimes he’ll look like the gardener, sometimes the poor, sometimes a burning bush, sometimes a child, sometimes an ancient, the wind, the inner voice, the prophetic call, angels holding up threatening walls. It will all be surprise—joyous, challenging surprise.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia;">Jan says that icky thing about about being friends with Jesus—and I cried "holy tears" all the way through the sermon? I liked Richard Beck's crotchety essay (see this post's epigraph) because it takes issue with people who focus on a friendship with God instead being a friend to others. Beck also says, "</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I truly want people to spend time working on their relationship with God. I just want them to do it by taking the time to care about the person standing right in front of them." Jan says the same thing in more beautiful ways when she says that Jesus will look like a gardner or the poor. And, looking back on Jesus as "a figure of the past" that I can analyze, so does the Christ:</span></span></div></div></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>This is my command,</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>That you love each other as I have loved you...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>You are my friends if you do what I command you...</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>...you I have called friends</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Because all things I heard from my father</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I have made known to you.</i></span><br />
<div style="text-align: right;">—<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">John 15:12-15, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16px;">from <a href="http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-06493-3/" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank"><i>The Restored New Testament</i>, tr. Willis Barnstone</a></span></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Wright" target="_blank">Franz Wright</a>, in his essay, <a href="http://imagejournal.org/page/journal/articles/issue-57/wright-essay" target="_blank">"Language as Sacrament in the New Testament,"</a>writes that he finds this passage in John (differently translated) "staggering": "what </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we are now presented with is a universe in which we are not alone, but one which says, 'You are my friends.' Think of it." I do think of it. I think that the staggering part is that friendship with Jesus means loving as much as God, the whole universe manifested in each person. We are called to find the friend in everyone, no exceptions. I look at these words and I think they are abstract.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> Let me try again. On Wednesday nights, when we kneel at the communion rail and the celebrant presses oil on our foreheads, "I anoint you for healing," Mary J and I lay our hands on each other's shoulders. We are close friends. We know each other well. Something in Father Knute's sermon emboldened our little group, and made us free to love. When he anointed us, a man I don't know well, a regular on Wednesdays, came up behind us and laid a hand on each of our shoulders. Maybe that's embarrassing to some, old hat to others. I think it's healing, simple connection.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"> Let me try again. When I lived in Greece for nineteen months, my then husband and I broke up. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">It was winter and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">I went to Serifos, the island where my family and I have lived summers since the 70s. Everyone asked, "Eise kala?" Are you well? They didn't ask for details—which was a relief—they just offered human comfort. One evening, I was in a bar, talking to the owner. I told him how grateful I was that people cared. "Eise diki mas," he said. You're one of ours. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> I don't think you need to go to church or a synagogue or a mosque or any house of worship to be one of ours. You are one of ours. You are.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> So if you live in Columbia, consider coming to the chili supper and helping Habitat for Humanity. No one will invade your personal space, try to convert you, or lay a unwanted healing hand on you. You might find a friend or two, have a good talk, spiritual or not. You might be surprised. Come and see.</span><br />
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</span></div>Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-88838531418597384222012-01-16T17:00:00.000-08:002017-01-16T17:22:11.744-08:00Days of 1964 in Bloomington, Indiana: A Poem in Honor of Martin Luther King Day<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elm Heights School Building.<br />
<a href="http://www.harmonyschool.org/" target="_blank">It is now Harmony School</a>.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">I am usually reluctant to say that events recounted in my poems <i>really happened, </i>but this is a true story. I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">n 1957, state law barred </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">school segregation. Nonetheless, as my childhood experience attests, <i>de facto </i>segregation was still in force in the 60s. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;"> In 1966, w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">hen we moved into our home in </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">Heritage Woods, a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;"> Bloomington suburb, my father tells me that covenants </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;">were still on the books that</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 15px;"> banned African-Americans and Jews from living there. Such covenants were illegal by then, and it is indicative of the cultural climate that even in an enlightened university town, the covenants had not been removed. </span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">Days of 1964 in Bloomington, Indiana<br />
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With kids I was so shy I couldn’t speak. <br />
“Turn around and quit staring,” they commanded.<br />
My father told me I was beautiful<br />
and they ridiculed my looks: “Your nose is big.”<br />
My mother loved my long hair and they asked <br />
if she used it as a mop. I threw away<br />
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the sack lunch my grandmother had packed after <br />
they said our food was gross. I couldn’t hide <br />
my Greek family, though Mom’s proper English<br />
was fluent. When children came to my house,<br />
they twanged, “Whad yer mother say? She tawks funny.” <br />
“You got a pin?” meant “Do you have a pen?”<br />
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They’d been taught a grammar other than ours. <br />
Brenda and I talked, though. We walked to school<br />
and back, then played together until dark.<br />
Her dad showed us how our hands could create <br />
animal shadows on the wall. A seagull<br />
flew into the night the ceiling held.<br />
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Little Bunny Foo Foo bopped the field mice.<br />
The fairy warned him three times to behave—<br />
isn’t that right?—his goon face loomed! We yelled <br />
the moral, “Hare today and goon tomorrow!” <br />
Our third grade teacher was Mrs. McMillan.<br />
She was pretty, her beautiful blond hair<br />
<br />
teased in a French twist. She never had art<br />
when she grew up, so we got something new<br />
each week—finger paints, oil pastels, collage.<br />
Homework was write a poem about the way <br />
a color feels, and I wrote “Blue Is Greece.”<br />
Safe places were her classroom, the library,<br />
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and home. Late afternoons we filed downstairs<br />
to pick our books. The librarian’s helper<br />
had earned a reward for good citizenship.<br />
The chosen boy proudly stamped the due dates. <br />
He had crewcut hair—ugly style, I thought.<br />
“I won’t check out a book for any nigger.”<br />
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A grown-up supervised. I can’t be certain<br />
if she admonished the boy, “Do your job right.”<br />
What I remember most is Brenda’s plaintive <br />
question: “I’m not a nigger, am I, Kiki?<br />
I guess she had been spared the word till then,<br />
and I had not yet witnessed it. I answered, <br />
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“No, you’re not,” helpless. Who could free my friend <br />
Brenda from her unchosen role? The only <br />
black child at Elm Heights School. Some say, reflecting <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">back on those days, “I was ashamed,” as if <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">obliged, as if our color bound us. Brenda<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">and I stood close, allies. Seeing her hurt, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt;">I felt afraid, more foreign, not shame. <br />
Our friendship was an invisible castle.<br />
Our guests flew in on falling maple leaves.<br />
We divided people into mean and kind.<br />
That boy raised cruel came from the other side<br />
and spoke the language we’d already vowed<br />
<br />
never to understand, never to speak.<br />
We held hands in line, waiting to be dismissed.<br />
I can still feel her skin. Our hands were dry <br />
from late autumn. We walked home with no thought<br />
of history, that we’d taken our places,<br />
citizens in the Great Society.<br />
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Brenda’s mom was fast with grilled cheese sandwiches.<br />
We squeezed on too much ketchup, ate them right up.<br />
Then we kneeled before the window. The sill<br />
was our own stage; the afternoon, our floods.<br />
Our shadowed hands held figurines whom we<br />
moved in a play we made up as we went.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">—Aliki Barnstone, from <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/Bright-Body-Aliki-Barnstone/dp/1935210246/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1484616061&sr=8-1&keywords=bright+body+aliki+barnstone" target="_blank"><i>Bright Body </i>(White Pine, 2011)</a></span></span><br />
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Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-35267426265752807122012-01-09T23:27:00.000-08:002012-01-10T23:58:38.920-08:00New Year's Resolution # 1: Spiritual Practice & Presence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: #fffef0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Woody Guthrie's 1943 "New Years Rulin's." Found in one of his journals dated January 1st, 1943.</span><br style="background-color: #fffef0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;" /><span style="background-color: #fffef0; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Woody Guthrie Archives Notebook Series 1, Item 13, Pages 36-37</span><br />
Source: <a href="http://www.woodyguthrie.org/newyearsrulins.htm">http://www.woodyguthrie.org/newyearsrulins.htm</a></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">From Lewis Carroll's original manuscript, "Alice's Adventures Under Ground."<br />
Source: <a href="http://www.alice-in-wonderland.net/" target="_blank">Lenny's Alice-in-Wonderland site</a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">We </span>are nine days into the 2012 New Year, and my clock is off. I intended to get up early, breathe, meditate, do some sun salutations, pray, and begin the day right. Instead, I've been staying up until the early morning - three, four, even five o'clock—and then sleeping fitfully until sometimes—horrors!—the early afternoon. 2011 is gone, but the sad, sometimes traumatic memories of it are not. In answer to my last sentence, a part of me—Aliki in the rabbit hole, scolding herself for crying—retorts <i>So what?</i> The whole point of spiritual practice is to find the peace within so you can deal with inevitable suffering and trauma. Then again, maybe spiritual practice, for perfectionist, self-scolding people like me, is about accepting, peacefully, these thoughts, and detaching from them, and even laughing at them. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes, I've been conducting this nonsensical underground dialogue with myself for a very long time. In fact, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I just heard one of my own poems speak in my head, which is probably not the best thing to admit. These are two stanzas from "What's the Matter?"—a probably too-long poem that appears in my book, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Earth-Poems-Aliki-Barnstone/dp/0916078590/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1290916950&sr=1-1" target="_blank">Blue Earth</a> (</i>but not in my <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dear-God-Dr-Heartbreak/dp/1931357684/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1290298446&sr=1-1" target="_blank">New & Selected</a></i>—Why would I select a self-chastising poem? Wouldn't that make me </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like Alice who "remembered boxing her own ears for having been unkind to herself"</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">?):</span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">He’s got his hands on his hips</span></i><br />
<div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>and walks toward the child who retreats</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>out of sight and reappears in the hall</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>around the corner. I guess he’s been bad.</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I know what it’s like to be bad.</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Sometimes you can’t help it.</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I’m sitting on the fire escape. What good</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>is a wooden fire escape? These questions</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I can’t help asking may have answers</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>that don’t matter. What’s the matter?</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I want to go upstairs or outside</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>and down the street to another city</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>or even another house. So what</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>if there’s so much to do?</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I wish I could laugh at myself</i></span></div><div class="p1"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>but am complaining, which only keeps me here...</i></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Well, now my modesty is kicking in, and I wonder: Is quoting my own poem—even if I don't think it's one of my best—shameless (shameful?) self-promotion? I'm reminded of a trip I took with <a href="http://web.whittier.edu/barnstone/WITHBORGES.HTM" target="_blank">my dad and Jorge Luis Borges</a> to Madison, Wisconsin—must have been around 1980. They were touring the country, doing public interviews, often with several others. On this particular occasion, Alastair Reid asked Borges a question that the sage humbly twisted around in order to mock his interlocutor. Reid quipped, "Borges, sometimes you wield your modesty like a club." As if to enact the observation, Borges stood up with a grin and bowed deeply, and we were lost in another of his cerebral labyrinths: his proud gesture, with its humiliating humility, charmed and repelled us—or at least me. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">After the lecture, I was given the privilege of being Borges' seeing-eye-girl. I guided him down windy State Street, with piles of lake-effect snow on either side of us. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I'd accompanied my father to several Borges events.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I'd read Borges' work, in my dad's lovely translations, and in college. I remember the discussion we had when read Borges' <i>Labyrinths</i> for one of several courses I took with </span><a href="http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Comparative_Literature/people/facultypage.php?id=10055" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">Arnold Weinstein</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, whom I adored. One of the students complained that the work was difficult to relate to. Borges the human being seemed absent, except as a clever mind. I launched into a passionate defense of the man I'd not yet met, pointing to this or that passage. I remember Professor Weinstein listening to us, attentively, with an encouraging little smile on his face. He responded to each of us, showing us both our perceptions opened up the text. More importantly, he gave us permission to connect art to our own lives. In his recent book, </span><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/book/188116/a-scream-goes-through-the-house-by-arnold-weinstein#excerpt" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank"><i>A Scream Goes through the House</i>: <i>What Literature Teaches Us About Life,</i></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> my professor writes: </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 28px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><br />
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<i style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In art we can find and tap into a reservoir of feeling, and this encounter not only breaks open our solitude but also makes audible and visible to us the emotional lines of force that bathe individual life, separate us, yet connect us to one another. Art and literature are the ears we do not have, to hear the sounds of sentience, the emotions of others, and even our own; they are the eyes we do not always have, that can look beneath the surface to see revealed the currents of feeling that lie beneath our words, our actions, and our separate states, and also to delineate the larger community in which emotions inscribe us.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I can't remember what I said, except that Borges's story, "Funes the Memorious," was present in my mind then, as now, as always. Funes was a man who remembered everything:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> <i> With no effort, he had learned English, French, Portuguese and Latin. I suspect, however, he was not very capable of thought. To think is to forget differences, generalize, make abstractions. In the teeming world of Funes, there were only details, almost immediate in their presence.</i></span><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> The wary light of dawn entered the earthen patio.</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Professor Weinstein sat on a chair and some of us were sprawled on the floor. I can still feel myself cross-legged on the floor, discovering what I hoped to give to my students one day, which might be the courage to guide them inside the enigma, and not to have answers. I wish I'd said—maybe I did—"When 'the wary light of dawn entered the earthen patio' I was shaken. The image is unforgettable. Literally, I can't forget—even if I can't recall the Spanish or English words—tormented Funes, the genius idiot, lying on his cot, sleepless, when the morning light enters to reveal still more minutia. D</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">awn </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">enters him </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">like another soul that </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">all his life </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he will hold within, without connection</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I was learning to teach what I love, even if—at times, but only at times—what I love is the tragic recognition of the absence of love. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Jorge Luis Borges was holding my arm, talking, and I was saying something in response, trying to remember every word. One day at</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">a moment like this one, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">his sentences would present themselves and I'd record them. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I remember steering the great writer away from the nearly black slick of ice at the curb. I remember he wasn't very tall. I remember feeling non-existent in his presence or absence or whatever it was, and t</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he more I tried to remember our conversation, if you could call it that, the more quickly his words abstracted into the frozen gray sky. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Maybe Borges was unhappy and confessed his soul when he wrote this sonnet, one of my favorites:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Remorse</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I have committed the worst sin of all</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">That a man can commit. I have not been</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Happy. Let the glaciers of oblivion</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Drag me and mercilessly let me fall.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My parents bred and bore me for a higher</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Faith in the human game of nights and days;</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For earth, for air, for water, and for fire.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I let them down. I wasn't happy. My ways</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Have not fulfilled their youthful hope. I gave</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My mind to the symmetric stubborness</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of art, and all its webs of pettiness.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">They willed me bravery. I wasn't brave.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It never leaves my side, since I began:</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This shadow of having been a brooding man.</span></i><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">—<i>tr. Willis Barnstone</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">T.S. Eliot plaque in our<a href="http://www.christchurchcathedral.us/" target="_blank"> Christ Church Cathedra</a>l, St. Louis, MO,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: xx-small;">where I was confirmed, as a member of <a href="http://calvaryonninth.org/" target="_blank">Calvary Episcopal Church</a>.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> But I digress, which reminds of <a href="http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html" target="_blank">T.S. Eliot's "Prufrock,"</a> and annoys me. "Is it perfume from a dress / that makes me digress." Why does that prig sing in me so loud, so much? I half-stole his rhyme in these lines from one of my poems: "How about I take off // my dress / in my distress? // or we take a sexy digression /on another question?" I was going to say that I was a good girl to steal and follow Eliot's advice, "Good poets borrow, great poets steal," but—because I google mid-sentence—thanks to <a href="http://nancyprager.wordpress.com/2007/05/08/good-poets-borrow-great-poets-steal/" target="_blank">Nancy Prager</a>, I just discovered that people have been misquoting Eliot for years. He actually wrote, "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least different." <span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Yeah, you pretentious snob, at least my lines are different. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> Eliot's biography pisses me off even more than Borges the man disappointed me. (</span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">Arnold Weinstein's enthusiasm and idealism set me up, and now I'm passing down the legacy and setting up my students.)</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">Why did the poet I loved so much as a college student have to be a despicable antisemite? Why was he so awful to his wife? Why is it so funny when my former student <a href="http://www.shampoopoetry.com/ShampooThirtyfour/salutsky.html" target="_blank">Ron Salutsky</a> quips "Eliot is the only major British author from Missouri"? </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">Oh, Lord have mercy! I'm about to quote myself again—</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">These questions // </i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">I can’t help asking may have answers / </i><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;">that don’t matter. What’s the matter? </i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">I <i>love</i> (most of) T.S. Eliot's poetry, and he's one of my greatest influences, so what does it matter that I don't like him </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">so much as a</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;"> person </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">? Who am I to judge? I never knew him. What does it matter that people I've known, looked up to, and emulated have been absent or selfish or not quite truthful? I don't know, but I can't help asking. </span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> </span></span>What were my New Year's resolutions again? Practice yoga, meditate, pray, sing, and exercise every day. Post on my blog once a week. Be present.</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icWQGrhdr7E" target="_blank">In my beginning is my end.</a></i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i><br />
</i></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">I've been trying to come back to the beginning of this post, so I can go to bed, where my husband is waiting. (I started writing this post on the 8th, re-entered it on the 9th; now that it's almost 1:30 a.m., it's officially the 10th, our wedding anniversary.) I began with New Years' resolutions and spiritual practice and my disappointment that, despite my best intentions, I stay up late and mourn and ruminate. I fail to accept my flaws or those of the people I love and then judge myself for failing to be peaceful, just like Alice boxing her own ears for being unkind to herself. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> Borges, maybe you were sweeter than I remember. You are with me now and ever, you and Funes. Peace be with you.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;"> Mr. Eliot, like you I was raised Unitarian and converted to Anglicanism. Unlike you, my father is a Jew. I hope you are eating the spiritual food with the Jews in Heaven, and are seated somewhere near the right hand of the Rabbi Jesus. Peace be with you.</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;"> All you that I now name in the silence of my heart, forgive me for not forgiving deeply enough. Peace be with you</span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"> I'm going upstairs now to say the goodnight rhyme to my daughter, as I have every night of her life, even if she's asleep already. </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><i>Good night, sleep night—</i></span></span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">don't the bedbugs bite—</i><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">see you in the morning light. </i><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;">I love you very much—have sweet dreams. </i></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;"> I'm going upstairs now to give my husband a happy anniversary present, my presence.</span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;"> I want to make art, and find the peace and presence not to feel remorse that I gave </span><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My mind to the symmetric stubborness / </span></i><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of art, and all its webs of pettiness.</span></i><br />
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;"> resolve to stop writing now and make the circle of life and art whole. </span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 24px;"><i>Goodnight!</i></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></div>Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-46877966431915789322011-12-14T11:11:00.000-08:002011-12-14T22:51:13.037-08:00Dark Charade: Courts, Banks, & Tax Collectors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dbrl.org/columbia/art-columbia-public-library?a=courthouse" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"Courthouse," Sidney Larson, Acrylic, 1971</span></span></a></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1070716132">Robert Minor, </a></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/goldstein/37.jpg" target="_blank">Morgan, Mellon, <br />
Rockefeller, 1922</a></span></i></td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Minister—goes stiffly in—</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As if the House were His—<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And He owned all the Mourners—now—<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And little Boys—besides—<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And then the Milliner—and the Man<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Of the Appalling Trade—<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To take measure of the house—<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There’ll be that Dark Parade—<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">—<a href="http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/" target="_blank">Emily Dickinson</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">These astute lines </span></i></span>come from Emily Dickinson's poem that begins <a href="http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2011/01/04" target="_blank">"There's been a death in the house opposite." </a>Great poetry goes so far beyond its nominal subject matter, and this poem has been haunting me. Yesterday my husband and I went to court because my credit card company is suing me. A year and a half ago, we had the choice of paying our credit card bill or our mortgage, and we chose to keep our home. From 9 a.m to 10 a.m. there were about twenty others on the docket also being sued by the very same credit card. They probably had to make worse choices. In the gallery we sat, the legions against whom other banks, a local dentist, vehicle sales companies, and the <a href="http://www.showmeboone.com/COLLECTOR/" target="_blank">Boone County Tax Collector </a>have brought suit. On the other side of the bar (which is called "the well," I've just now discovered, because unlike most of the defendants in the court, I'm educated, employed, have access to the internet, and can engage in research), at tables, in chairs lined up against the wall, and in the jury box, the lawyers lounged around, professionally dressed, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">sometimes </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">smiling smugly or talking amongst themselves behind their hands. We spectators watched as “the dark parade” marched on, a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens" target="_blank">Dickensian</a> dark charade in which the justice system unjustly and systematically goes about its business of disenfranchising people of their </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">homes, wages, automobiles, and well-being.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I was crocheting an afghan as I watched the proceedings. The woman in front of me turned around to whisper, "That's so pretty." </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: right;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1070716145">Thomas Hart Benton, "Kansas City,"</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1070716145">1936,</a></span></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1070716145"> from </a></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1070716145">Politics, <br />
Farming, </a></span></span></i></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1070716145">and the Law, </a></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/artgallery.htm" target="_blank">Missouri State Museum</a></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Court is so boring," I replied, "I have to do something with my hands." The folks all around rolled their eyes and nodded. I'm fond of saying that if you have an imagination, you never have to be bored, yet somehow I think we turn numb to witness the "Appalling Trades" at work: the corporations and the rich, in the guise of justice, stealing from the poor and middle-class, and <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/11/americas-modern-day-debtors-prison/249043/" target="_blank">sometimes imprisoning them for the crime of not being well-off</a>. The sweet lady who complimented me was dressed in jeans and a tattered sweatshirt. The bailiff gestured to her partner to remove his baseball cap. Then he came over for good measure, and gave them a stern lecture in low tones and threatened them with removal should they violate the court's strictures again. I, who have the privilege of education and am a tenured professor, was dressed in a long brown skirt and blaser. I know how to comport myself in a courtroom—the appropriate dress, manners and language—because I've been taught from birth. In my senior position at the University of Missouri I have the luxury, if I feel like it, to show up for work in jeans and no one will think the less of me. Like the vast majority of the defendants in the courtroom that morning, my comrade in the gallery had no representation. T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">herefore, s</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he faced the inevitable ruling in favor of the plaintiff, who is amply represented not just by the attorneys, but by the elected legislators and <a href="http://www.courts.mo.gov/page.jsp?id=1083" target="_blank">judges</a>. The plaintiff doesn't need this poor woman's money or possessions, though she desperately does. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1070716127">Eli Jacobi, </a><i><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1070716127">All Night Mission, </a></i><a href="http://newdeal.feri.org/images/ai75.gif" target="_blank">1938</a></span></span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Meanwhile, the attorney representing our Boone County Tax Collector, a harried young woman, approached the bench with a foot-high stack of file-folders. Not a single person stood beside her to plead for mercy or leniency or more time. The judge seemed as bored as we were, as he pronounced, "Default ruling" too many times to count. I leaned over and muttered </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">to Craig</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, "So, they're using our tax dollars to take away poor people's homes and make them homeless. Instead the government could tax the rich, and use the funds to provide education and job training, so families can prosper, raise their children in a stable environment, and contribute to the community." </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3qBJ83fCWZ7ULBhAlIBvx06xN3wDQlnmI3YNiVUbbV1we2ukLAq8pV6_tU2m5_MPpAD704a2lGCbRfdfpyXVbVLTpzAnTv6aeHRoJDGqX76AM9YzYbbudFksDn5GZJ9PlxdwaJgj7Fw0/s1600/sherriff%2527s+sale+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I was preaching to choir, of course, and Craig answered, "Some of these people probably don't even know they're about to be evicted and their homes sold out from under them." And he's right. On the Boone County Collector webpage we find that very warning, clearly stated in bold letters:</span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><em style="background-color: #e06666; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><strong>Failure to receive a tax bill does not relieve the obligation to pay taxes and applicable late fees</strong>.</span></em></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Never mind that some poor people don't have access to the internet or the newspapers. Some, because the public schools have failed them, don't even know how to read. And what happens after your property is taken from you for failure to pay taxes you can't afford because your nation is in a depression? And what if the depression is the direct result of policies and laws made by the legislators and judges, who are in turn owned by the wealthy, their corporations and lobbyists? What happens is that the wealthy now have the opportunity to buy your home at a fraction of its value at a tax auction. The back taxes, which were more than everything to you, are next to nothing for them. They will buy your home and "flip it" and make a huge profit. They will dispossess not just the powerless and unrepresented and not just people like me, the employed and represented, but many, many of us, and they will make record profits. And what will happen to those profits? Will they go to making a better society? To education? To health care? To peacemaking? To feeding the hungry and putting a roof over the heads the homeless? No, those record profits will go to writing legislation that will further disenfranchise you, will make it harder to vote, will send your children to war...and so on. I can't believe I'm about to say this, as I'm loathe to echo the tea-partiers: this is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation" target="_blank">taxation without representation</a>, and it is tyranny.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> When we got home, I called my attorney, who is on a mission to help people like me. I was fortunate that I could cash out an IRA, and pay him his retainer. I was lucky because my attorney is patient and ethical and was willing to wait a month for me to come up with the funds. I told my attorney the latest: my husband</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, who is preparing our taxes, calculated that he’d made one-sixth the money he made in 2007, when our romance began. I make a good salary, and I am among the tiny minority of the middle-class who feels somewhat secure that I will keep my job. U</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ntil the crash,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">my husband,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> a small business man,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> was making a fine living. (Well, he's doing very well, even now, in comparison to others in his field.) One of the things that I find annoying is the common wisdom, promulgated by most the media on the left and the right, that somehow those of us who have debts we cannot pay were irresponsible when we took them on. This is misinformation. We did the math, looked at the moneys we could reasonably expect to receive in the future, and we took one of those balance transfer deals: 0% interest for the first 6 months, 3% percent for the next 6 months, etc. My husband had a contract that would have allowed us to pay off the whole debt and have a good sum left over. But that contract was cancelled.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> No, we were not irresponsible; w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">e weren't paranoid enough. We assumed that the world economy would have ups and downs, not that corporate greed would bring about another great depression. My attorney listened patiently, and then said: "Welcome to my world. Your case is just like so many others I see. Then there are the folks whose homes have been illegally foreclosed, whom we are also trying to help."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I reported the courtroom scene and summed up, "The justice system is just a tool for the rich to rob from the poor and middle-class." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Yes," my lawyer said, "We are governed by Wall Street," and so on, more preaching to choir. Or is it? Somehow I doubt that my attorney and I align ourselves with the same political organizations. T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">he walls of our beautiful county courthouse in Columbia, Missouri are adorned with murals by <a href="http://shs.umsystem.edu/awards/larson/album/index.html" target="_blank">Sidney Larson</a>, whose teacher was<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hart_Benton_(painter)" target="_blank"> Thomas Hart Benton</a>. Benton, like Grant Wood, is often dismissed for his "regionalism" and his leftist political leanings. There was a time when I regarded these perhaps propagandistic murals as evidence that despite it all, this is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, with an unassailable First Amendment. I still believed passionately in our system, for all its flaws, despite the fact that the Supreme Court appointed President Bush, despite the unpatriotic Patriot Act. Despite everything, I considered myself a lefty, peace-nik, patriot. I was so happy after Obama was elected and I could go to Greece and not be embarrassed to be American. The <a href="http://www.aclu.org/" target="_blank">American Civil Liberties Union's</a> Executive Director, Anthony Romero, has said he's <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/06/10-4" target="_blank">"disgusted" with Obama's record on civil liberties. </a><a href="http://www.loyno.edu/~quigley/" target="_blank">Bill Quigley,</a> a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> human rights lawyer, recently wrote an article worth reading, <a href="http://www.alternet.org/rights/153283/20_ways_the_obama_administration_has_intruded_on_your_rights/?page=entire" target="_blank">20 Ways the Obama Administration Has Intruded on Your Rights</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I still want to have faith that people who witness injustice and express their outrage can make a difference. M</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">y husband doesn't like me to write about this because he feels that somehow he's done something wrong or failed. He absolutely has not failed. He's one of literally millions who works hard, gives as much as (if not more than) he receives, and who is suffering not just economically, but psychologically and spiritually. I believe the dominant narrative is a huge problem, if not THE problem: those corrupt forces in power are telling our stories, blaming their victims, and brainwashing the victims into blaming themselves. Change means <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-wall-street/1319586606" target="_blank">occupying the narrative</a>. S</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">o I asked my attorney, "Can I write about this on my blog? Will it harm my case?"</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Yes, of course you can. Please do."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Well, that makes me happy. I'll go ahead and exercise my </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;" target="_blank">First Amendment</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> rights."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> "Yes...oh, wait a minute. In one my cases, the other side used my client's blog against her...</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal"><i>The unconscious wants truth, as the body does. The complexity and fecundity of dreams comes from the complexity and fecundity of the unconscious struggling to fulfill that desire.<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;"><i>—<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Rich" target="_blank">Adrienne Rich</a><o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">When I spent the night with Abigail, back in the ‘60s, we slept in her double bed under a pile of quilts—summer nights were chilly in Vermont. Her bedroom under the eaves had slanting ceilings, just like mine. I don’t think she ever got see my room when we were children because her mother wouldn’t allow her to spend the night at my house. Her mother and my parents were close, dear friends, and she must have known that they would protect Abigail as one of their own. But sadly her mom held fast to the fear that some harm would come to her youngest daughter if she left her side. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">After supper, we ran upstairs to her room, and we became free travelers. Nestled together with our cold noses almost touching, we whispered late into the night. Just as we drifted into sleep, Abigail instructed me in dream-making. “If we concentrate hard enough, and only let ourselves think of the dream we want, we can go anywhere we want in our dreams and be with whoever we want. Let’s only talk about the dreams we want.” With that, Abigail, who is a great mimic, spoke in a perfect Liverpoolian accent, “We can have Beatle dreams! I want to be in London with George. Where do you want to go, Kiki?”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">“I want to be in London, too, with Paul. Abby, would you like to go on a double date?” My proposal set off bed-shaking giggles, and we planned the flowers George and Paul would bring us and our outfits—long purple velvet dresses, pointy-toed lace-up boots, peacock feather boas, and wide-brimmed hats or Mondrian inspired mini-dresses and stack heeled shoes. We’d walk along Thames and see all the sights and go to the most expensive, luxurious, yummy restaurants in whole world.<o:p></o:p></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Sometimes Abigail told me that she met her father in her dreams, and she wanted to dream him with her again. On those nights I tried to help her bring into him being. I saw him emerge in light from the wooded hilltop, and walk toward us along the brook where iridescent dragonflies skimmed the water’s surface. He wore a black sports coat and baggy trousers and a fedora. When he reached us, he knelt on one knee before Abigail, and pulled an imaginary creature from his pocket—it wasn’t a mouse or a bird or any animal for which we have a name. “Remember?” he said. The little creature stood on its hind legs on his palm, and Abby nodded and stroked its head.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Other times, Abigail would cry bitterly, “I don’t have a father! I don’t have a father!” I was only six when Abigail and I began our friendship. I was too young to know that our parents, each of them, produced literally hundreds of poems about the suicides of Abigail’s father and my grandfather. I can’t remember not knowing that her father had hung himself, but somehow, I’ve since learned, that fact was kept secret from Abigail for years. I do remember when I tried to voice my intuition that my grandfather had also killed himself. When my mother described her father’s gentleness, his soft, healing hands—he was a doctor—she also sadly told me about her father’s death of “a creeping paralysis” (probably multiple sclerosis). When my father told me about his mother, her New England reserve and her properness, he also told me about her death: she’d fallen ill on a ship to Europe with my mother. So, sad, they never got to travel together. They immediately returned the U.S., and she died soon afterwards of pancreatic cancer. My father told exciting stories about his adventures with his father—they took a road trip out West and hit a deer in Wyoming; they sold watch straps on the train in order to fund going to see the Yankees; his father designed watches and branded them, Pierre Grange, which means Stone Barn in French—but how did he die? One day in the living room of our house in Vermont, I mustered the courage to ask, “Daddy, how did your father die?” <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">“We’ll talk about it another time,” he said, and I saw his body awkwardly scrunch up with grief or perhaps he was embarrassed by his evasive answer. I couldn’t bear my father’s pain, which I felt acutely, so I didn’t ask again. I knew my grandfather killed himself. I sensed that fact, as all children intuitively apprehend everything about their parents; for survival’s sake, they’re biologically programmed to know, to adjust, and to compensate. The way I compensated was to participate in the denial narrative, even after I figured out the story, through the poetry, I guess. Eventually, my father was able to discuss the suicide with me. But by then I’d already learned to distrust my perceptions. That distrust led me to allow other people to name reality. When I told my story, I hoped someone else would refine the raw materials of my speech and tell me the true, the good, the wise, and the real. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">You may say, “But you’ve been writing poetry since you were a child, how can you say your work doesn’t name reality?” For much of my life, my poetics could be summed up in Antonio Machado’s lines, “En mi soledad / he visto cosas muy claras / que no son verdad” (In my solitude / I’ve seen things very clearly / that aren’t true.”) Until recent years, I didn’t internalize his other lines: “La verdad es que lo es, / y sigue siendo verdad / aunque se piense al revés” : <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">The truth is what it is,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">and still stays true<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">even if you think the reverse.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">I wish when I asked my father how his father had died, he’d had sat down with me on the couch, and taken my hand in his, just as he did so many times when he read to me—“I take your hand, companion of the hills” he wrote in one my birthday poems. I wish he’d told me the truth in his even, steady voice, as he did in his later poem, “In Our Life Watch,” which tells the story my magical grandfather, a merchant of diamonds and watches, who made and lost many fortunes in what one newspaper article called his “Horatio Alger-like career.” Here are the last lines:<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> He steps over the low railing, leaps,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> And floats in blind sorrow into May sun.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"> Dad’s fallen again, but we can’t wake early<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> and look up a small jewelry shop<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> to peddle our wares and hearts,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> our soft Swiss straps or cold diamond,<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"> since death at last has cleaned us out.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">How utterly simple, beautiful, and heartbreaking! I’m not saying that my poetry or anybody’s doesn’t name truth; it’s a striving toward it. Poetry – all writing, all art – is a process of discovery for both the artist and the reader. Shouldn’t this poem be enough? Shouldn’t all the poems be enough? My answer is no, I’m sorry to say. There’s a difference between art and life, between the artist and the person. There’s a difference between readers and a person’s family. Art isn’t the only place where one can be honest and insightful, one’s best self. Art might be mere practice for an ordinary person to sit face to face with a child and tell the truth that “is what it is / and still stays true / even if you think [or say] the reverse” or stay silent.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal">In our conversations, Abigail and I have discovered that we were practicing truth-seeking in our dreams. Sometimes it’s terrible to know what one shouldn’t know. I was told in a dream that my uncle had killed himself. I visited a friend in the hospital, though I didn’t “know” he was ill, and my bed was two-thousand miles away. Not all dreams know and tell the unknowable and untellable. Yet the dreams (if that’s right word) that do invariably find a way to prove indisputably that they have uncannily told the dreamer the truth.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">A couple of weeks ago Abigail posted a piece on her blog, <a href="http://abigailstone.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">House of Stone</a>, about learning Hebrew. She wrote: “ I have learned to read ‘my father is coming,’ which is ironic, as my father has been dead since I was five years old, and yet I still believe at some point he will return.” He did return, many times. Now my dear friend has lost her mother, who happens to be one of the great poets of the world. Abigail, I’m closing my eyes and concentrating very hard before I sleep, just as I know you are. She is the dream returning, giving you the faith to tell the truth you know. <o:p></o:p></div></div></div>Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-66221899044620650042011-11-25T13:17:00.000-08:002011-12-14T12:00:13.360-08:00A Poem about an Incident in the Life of Ruth Stone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't like to admit that my poems tell "what really happened" because I want the same freedom that fiction writers have to tell lies that tell the truth. As I wrote about in my post, <a href="http://alikibarnstone.blogspot.com/2011/10/occupy-imagination-everyone-is-invited.html" target="_blank">"Occupy Imagination: Everyone is Invited!,"</a> I prefer to let the imagination speak and invent the happily ever after.</span><br />
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<div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I confess that "Madly in Love" really happened, but not to me. I was just a child observing. I remember Ruth's response to the poem, her customary generosity: "How amazing, Kiki, that you remember the incident in such detail." And then she giggled or laughed. I don't know what to call her particular expression of delight.</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I wrote this poem in January of 1992, when I was living in freezing Madison, Wisconsin. I was collecting unemployment, my marriage was unraveling, and I was depressed—if you get the picture of an unmastered disaster—well, that's what really happened, I guess—or at least it's a part of what really happened. Ruth's life of poverty, loss, and loneliness, which she transformed so exquisitely in her poetry, gave me the courage to name my own destitution, which I'm happy to report was brief, at least in terms of employment. I wrote the whole of my book, <i>Madly in Love, </i>in 1992. E</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ach poem had a kind of inevitability; b</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">eginning with "Madly in Love," the first poem in the book, the poems came almost exactly in the same order as they appear in published volume. I've never had that writing experience before or since. F</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">rom her winter in Binghamton to her summer in Goshen, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I believe that whole year Ruth sent her spirit to me in Madison, to stay close and encourage me to listen carefully and attend, as her speaker does in "Dream of the Light in the Shade:" "and all says attend! / The light so coldly spells in innocence / Attend!" </span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ruth said in her acceptance speech when she won the National Book Award that her poetry "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">just talked to me, and I wrote it down,” she said. “So I can’t even take much credit for it.” Amen to that. </span></span></div><div style="text-indent: 12px;"><i><br />
</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><o:p> </o:p><i>Madly in Love</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;"> <i>For Ruth Stone<o:p></o:p></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">Late one summer night he tore through<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">her latched screen door, his trousers<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">in his hand, and declared his love.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">Then he lay down on the rug and screamed.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">He was obliging when she asked him to leave<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">and hiked from Goshen twenty miles<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">across the Brandon Gap in his underwear.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">At six AM, casually as if he carried <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">a sack of breakfast bagels, he rang<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">our bell, trousers still in hand.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">Three days later he committed himself.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">He was a librarian, a sensible man.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">As a child it mystified me.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">Now I think despair could make me<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">walk twenty miles in my underwear.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">I could lie down half-naked and wail<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">for an audience for my articulate loins.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">I've screamed--haven't you?--even though<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">screaming means no one will listen.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">And he was a librarian--I imagine him<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">knowing all the proper places for books<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">and for the lover in the stacks<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">who wasn't there when he clicked off <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;">the fluorescent lights and drove <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 94.5pt; margin-right: -66.8pt; margin-top: 0in; tab-stops: -.9in -.4in .25in 27.0pt 1.1in 1.6in 2.1in 2.6in 3.1in 3.6in 4.1in; text-indent: 13.5pt;"><br />
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</div></div>Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-86649534515158735172011-11-25T01:16:00.000-08:002011-12-14T11:59:31.772-08:00Ruth Stone, June 8, 1915-November 19, 2011<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhu8_PzhZXbbaLByvlk4XjiURvWFkIvGywfG02y_SOF0GBiAdjiMytnV6XP3FGZP4ZiGQDDE7yvMdGl_Jmj9Uda7KPk163f_sre52a1UuX8gO5RJmFdwGiSCNqJLTY-7Xg8BuUW3HS9Yg/s1600/Scanned+Image+113280000.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhu8_PzhZXbbaLByvlk4XjiURvWFkIvGywfG02y_SOF0GBiAdjiMytnV6XP3FGZP4ZiGQDDE7yvMdGl_Jmj9Uda7KPk163f_sre52a1UuX8gO5RJmFdwGiSCNqJLTY-7Xg8BuUW3HS9Yg/s320/Scanned+Image+113280000.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ruth & my dad, Willis</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Thanksgiving Day, 2011: After putting the turkey in the oven, I went out into the sunny noonday to harvest greens for our salad. I stuck my trowel in the dirt to see if the carrots were ready to eat (no), and there among the feathery carrot-tops, the radishes, the peas, the clover, and the pesky creeping-Charlie was a dead mole covered with glistening flies. I heard this poem by <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/arts/ruth-stone-national-book-award-winner-dies-at-96.html" target="_blank">Ruth Stone</a>, as I do so often:<br />
<br />
The Plan<br />
<br />
I said to myself, do you have a plan?<br />
And the answer was always, no, I have no plan.<br />
Then I would say to myself, you must think of one.<br />
But what happened went on, chaotic with necessary pain.<br />
During the winter the dogs dug moles from their runs<br />
And rolled them blind on the frozen road.<br />
Then the crossbills left at the equinox.<br />
All this time I tried to think of a plan,<br />
Something to bring the points together.<br />
I saw that we move in a circle<br />
But I was wordless in the field.<br />
The smell of green steamed, everything shoved,<br />
But I folded my hands and sat on the rocks.<br />
Here I am, I said, with my eyes.<br />
When they have fallen like marbles from their sockets,<br />
What will become of this? And then I remembered<br />
That there were young moles in my mind's eye,<br />
Whose pink bellies shaded to mauve plush,<br />
Whose little dead snouts sparkled with crystals of frost;<br />
And it came to me, the blind will be leading the blind.<br />
<br />
The little mole lay on its back, its pink paws, so much like hands, lay on on its fur. I wondered if one of our dogs had killed the mole, or was it Christopher, our muscular black cat, whom I call little jaguar. I wondered if <a href="http://abigailstone.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Abigail</a> was in Vermont for the holiday. Inside, washing the greens, arranging a purple pansy and some curly parsley to garnish the humus, I remembered our days in Providence, telling <a href="http://www.phoebestone.com/" target="_blank">Phoebe </a>how much I love the way purple and green look together. She was pregnant with Ethan, and I asked about the drawings she was making with graphite rubbings on rice paper, using household items like cheese graters. I've used the same method in some of my drawings. I made the cornbread dressing and gravy, and the meal was prepared. Time to take a shower, wash away the smell of onions and garlic from my hands. When the blind leading the blind entered my mind, I gratefully sang "Amazing Grace," because I'm no longer afraid to sing; I sing as freely as I did when I was a child in Vermont, singing Beatles songs with Abigail. Then I sat down at my computer, and wished Abigail a happy Thanksgiving on her Facebook wall, sending lots of love.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5gCKzwnjcQM9uvthGboDsDAJu4eP2iQwOR2daUgAvxjt-sWI-qK-k6j8_xPVvd-loUkp3-G7Md6tsR_tVOcy9sQuBO-5r9OafQY_wv-sXwJb3W9GeejeyOL3bSr8KGDf78QVfnrs8LM/s1600/Scannee+112930001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw5gCKzwnjcQM9uvthGboDsDAJu4eP2iQwOR2daUgAvxjt-sWI-qK-k6j8_xPVvd-loUkp3-G7Md6tsR_tVOcy9sQuBO-5r9OafQY_wv-sXwJb3W9GeejeyOL3bSr8KGDf78QVfnrs8LM/s200/Scannee+112930001.jpg" width="148" /></a><br />
Our guests began to arrive and then my dad called with Thanksgiving greetings and he said, "I have very sad news. Ruth died." When I met Ruth, I was younger than I am in this first grade photo. I have no memory of life without her and now she is memory on a new earth.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHqfbXkXrLN1UPfZdO1FodSV6AdV8RlK60Tpbikmf0QFE1c7KsgXIuzU2QYsxMk-bX2SqXlRaQNvNA82bWeITgpFjGqfGlYvlu4ISyBP5v8P3LcUNcBwW0SJFxvJA-wWMRyvjVwBRwxY/s1600/japan_china_blue_willow_child_s_set_made_in_japan_toy_tea_pot_lid_P0000321690S0005T2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoHqfbXkXrLN1UPfZdO1FodSV6AdV8RlK60Tpbikmf0QFE1c7KsgXIuzU2QYsxMk-bX2SqXlRaQNvNA82bWeITgpFjGqfGlYvlu4ISyBP5v8P3LcUNcBwW0SJFxvJA-wWMRyvjVwBRwxY/s200/japan_china_blue_willow_child_s_set_made_in_japan_toy_tea_pot_lid_P0000321690S0005T2.jpeg" width="200" /></a>Tonight I remember something so simple—or strange—I don't know. Maybe I'm numb. She'd arranged a reading for me at Binghamton University, and she put me up in her home there. In the morning, we drank tea and ate toast on beautiful bread, with ginger preserves. How delicious the preserves! And I recalled our teas in Vermont served on her Blue Willow tea set, and the delicacy, the ginger preserves. I held the jar in my hand, admiring the old fashioned label, the opaque white glass, which is made to look like porcelain, I guess. It was a winter day in Binghamton, with that kind of gray that has heft. Nonetheless, talking about how she keeps those preserves on hand to treat herself, Ruth sitting at her kitchen table glowed with warm ginger and her palpable delight to share such yumminess. Yes, her poetry is a gift to the world. Yes, she influenced me. Without her, I would not be the poet I am, or the person. I've written about the poetry; the poetry remains. Tonight I want to run to the grocery store, and treat myself to ginger preserves—and bites of toast that make me feel the warm rush of her love on my forehead, hear her spicy words, sharp wit, her sweet laughter, and taste her presence again.<br />
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</div>Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-90108649238900890082011-10-31T00:36:00.000-07:002011-11-01T23:00:24.909-07:00The Ruins of Mega Livadi, Serifos<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><i>This past week, with what the Greeks call "the crisis" intensified, with <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/28/greek-protests-thessaloniki_n_1063489.html">the protestors in Thessaloniki saying "NO!"</a> to the military parade celebrating "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohi_Day">Oxi Day,</a>" I got to thinking about this little tractate, "The Ruins of Mega Livadi," that I wrote several years ago, when people were optimistic about the economy. Mega Livadi was the site of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serifos#The_Miners.27_Strike_1916">1916 Miners' Strike</a>, a response to the terrible working conditions in the iron ore mines. Four miners were murdered for protesting and demanding an eight-hour work day. T</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><i>he 1916 Miners' Strike was</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><i> one of the defining moments in the </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #351c75;"><i>Greek Labor Movement and marks its inception. </i></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><b>The Ruins of Mega Livadi</b></span></i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Port of Mega Livadi</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;">In Mega Livadi a donkey lies in the shade of the town’s ancient plane tree. Geese honk. Hens and their chicks peck in the dust near a few cars parked in the shade. Ruined houses where miners once lived dot steep hill plunging in the port, a good port, sheltered and so deep the waters already extraordinary blue approaches black. The neo-classical villa, built by the German mine-owners decays. Patches of stucco fall away. There’s no glass in the long, elegant windows or in transoms above heavy wooden doors, though the palm trees flanking the wind entry are tall and healthy (the word for palm is <i>phoenika</i>, phoenix).<o:p></o:p></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Villa can seen on the left.</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table> Next to the villa is a monument to four miners who in 1916 were shot demonstrating for higher wages and an eight-hour workday. Their names, cut in marble, are Themistoklis Kousoupis, Mihalis Zilis, Mihalis Metrofanis, and Yiannis Protopappas. Oleander blooms profusely by blazing marble. We’re dizzy in noonday sun.<o:p></o:p><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ojRcekmyqvQ0pJjF6JCIwQ6T__tkGX70pAcNcTvtuOBTOMftw-WjJbAPTcuqfiE55CJ9OLOGV4kanEStdauKNYxHoHmX32kAY7SP3l4F667cl4DoWqFG020Ths9IK0rE2RaU_JQT9zU/s1600/RuinsGreekFlag.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0ojRcekmyqvQ0pJjF6JCIwQ6T__tkGX70pAcNcTvtuOBTOMftw-WjJbAPTcuqfiE55CJ9OLOGV4kanEStdauKNYxHoHmX32kAY7SP3l4F667cl4DoWqFG020Ths9IK0rE2RaU_JQT9zU/s200/RuinsGreekFlag.JPG" width="200" /></a> The village is quiet. Maybe there are twenty of us here. Some eating, some swimming, some fishing, some sitting with friends observing the summer day. On the terraces of the two beachfront tavernas people sit, sip ouzo and gossip. Old women wear black dresses and white headscarves. One still wears the traditional stiff sunbonnet, cardboard covered with calico. Blue, red, and yellow plastic chairs glare against whitewash while painted boats on the sea or banked on the beach upside-down under trees radiate their oranges and turquoises. Children playing in the shallow water call out to their siblings and cousins, “Come play!”—to grandmother, aunt, and mother, “Look! Look!”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Painting by Aliki</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table> Canaries sing from cages nailed up on either side of the taverna door. Kirea Maria watches soaps as she peels potatoes. She brings us a salad garnished with capers picked from the bushes which grow wild on the mountainside, bread baked in the island bakery’s wood-fired oven, and <i>mizithra, </i>the homemade goat cheese that’s sweet and sour and creamy. She has one gold tooth in her big smile and talks lovingly about her potted plants: scented geranium, jade, begonia, amaryllis, carnation, aster, crassula, vinca, basil. She directs us to the old springhouse, built by the miners for their pleasure and later damaged by an earthquake, so the thermal waters run into the sea rather than into the baths.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvt9UfP-eg9iBSdmCkvBxbCoQI4yelH-p5r_VX-JSR7QoTaTMSqIhEJZLid1tuevzOh9nU8lIh2qEOibjmtJ6vczdvT9ejDO9IftCYkZI5tMAGxdv850UFtLzFZq3o-qxKEmJqj65OdA/s1600/RuinedCarCloseup.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhvt9UfP-eg9iBSdmCkvBxbCoQI4yelH-p5r_VX-JSR7QoTaTMSqIhEJZLid1tuevzOh9nU8lIh2qEOibjmtJ6vczdvT9ejDO9IftCYkZI5tMAGxdv850UFtLzFZq3o-qxKEmJqj65OdA/s200/RuinedCarCloseup.JPG" width="200" /></a> The iron-ore mine gapes huge in the hillside of blooming euphorbia and yarrow; beside it a slagheap tumbles into the sea. The old technology rusts—tracks, carts lying on their sides, their wheels sometimes a few feet away, the cantilevered loading bridge reaching the port where no freight ship or ferry has docked in years.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtD7B7RCpeGZEyUojFix5KeEmcnXzEuZ7syDnp8Uh7HxL0ZAJ8o_x1IHV3IkBeHTQnWD5aRBtdoxWPxMT0TThLlJMB8tmLbvvHyIbW639vWUEf_FoQ6drr0BpEEhwP58jfUwJKtyhvGU/s1600/RuinsCar.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAtD7B7RCpeGZEyUojFix5KeEmcnXzEuZ7syDnp8Uh7HxL0ZAJ8o_x1IHV3IkBeHTQnWD5aRBtdoxWPxMT0TThLlJMB8tmLbvvHyIbW639vWUEf_FoQ6drr0BpEEhwP58jfUwJKtyhvGU/s200/RuinsCar.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>The Cyclops, the wild, cannibalistic shepherd, imprisoned that intruder Odysseus in a cave on Serifos. And you can see his rage in these buckling tracks, upturned carts and far-flung wheels. His hands would be stained with rust, just as ours are after we pick through the slag-heap looking for the extraordinary quartz-crystal laced with red ore. But it’s so peaceful here, in spite of the monument to protest and martyrdom. Perhaps the ruin is simply ruin, and we can identify the monster, who’s one-eyed, who helps and destroys. For in a later story, the Cyclops assisted Hephaestos, helping him make the arms, armor, and metal ornaments of the Gods. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirTiOoVgpEXYK6m0mP99pUqSFDd6aMZNWdAH0APIcsDidd4ibRhjLQKUytov61W4CGmwDNQH00_LUUf9GXQIErY04WoVMKf5qcfU_AGo8EnZkeZfoKiOixXMUp9Yl5_yqvFgdr5HwzkhM/s1600/RuinsEntering+water.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirTiOoVgpEXYK6m0mP99pUqSFDd6aMZNWdAH0APIcsDidd4ibRhjLQKUytov61W4CGmwDNQH00_LUUf9GXQIErY04WoVMKf5qcfU_AGo8EnZkeZfoKiOixXMUp9Yl5_yqvFgdr5HwzkhM/s200/RuinsEntering+water.JPG" width="200" /></a> Before the iron-ore mines in Mega Livadi closed, twenty-five thousand people lived on Serifos. Now there are eight-hundred year-round residents, though in summer, on the other side of the island, Livadi, the harbor village, and Hora, the mountain village above it, are packed with near-naked Athenians and Europeans eating, drinking, swimming, sleeping in the sand, wandering the maze of flagstone streets. So in a country where they say everything happens late, new hotels and restaurants go up rapidly and cover the austere mountains.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOFpVz5fzS_fg8CxQl4Ulo4zGnyQf1DW0ztqUyIQ2QTR8P8YIR-3pvsWrnUu1tsgpe-83ym_OzbKfMbZBhr7X0k2kjS1d-FqvVfdwXHL1h5no3RK1sUCPPNdnzB4K-BpPw_CVyiWmjzYg/s1600/RuinsPottedPlants.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOFpVz5fzS_fg8CxQl4Ulo4zGnyQf1DW0ztqUyIQ2QTR8P8YIR-3pvsWrnUu1tsgpe-83ym_OzbKfMbZBhr7X0k2kjS1d-FqvVfdwXHL1h5no3RK1sUCPPNdnzB4K-BpPw_CVyiWmjzYg/s200/RuinsPottedPlants.JPG" width="200" /></a></div> In 1987 we celebrated the first gas station on Serifos with a <i>panayiri, </i>we ate a feast at long tables. Musicians played and we danced between the pumps. Until the gas station opened, you had to get gas from Halidas, the storeowner who used to be the richest man on the island. You had to know the village and you had to know Greek. Now they’ve opened a rent-a-car and a rent-a-bike. They transformed donkey paths to roads and built condominiums beside them. The beaches we used to hike to on special occasions are crowded with tourists talking on cell phones.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz6XqIjur-hpPXzcKq3lNIcpjxfqp4ZF_LYBfVj1q2UIT5V1OsAAj5KtDfk9hIECv2lhWrIEZo0HJqE2zVraJrkoAshI-raZc7qF224ze0z7Ye9q53Qf2M57RffdTlxlZrcA4hPG9eNiE/s1600/RuinsPlay.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz6XqIjur-hpPXzcKq3lNIcpjxfqp4ZF_LYBfVj1q2UIT5V1OsAAj5KtDfk9hIECv2lhWrIEZo0HJqE2zVraJrkoAshI-raZc7qF224ze0z7Ye9q53Qf2M57RffdTlxlZrcA4hPG9eNiE/s200/RuinsPlay.JPG" width="200" /></a> Imagine it. When the ferry arrives, a mini-van stenciled with HOTEL MEGA LIVADI waits to take you to the newly renovated villa where each room has a bath, a phone, and a refrigerator. You walk ten steps to the beach. You explore the old mine shafts and dig crystals from the walls. You hike high, well-marked paths by the sea, pay a small fee, enter the restored springhouse, soak in warm curative waters, then cool off in the sea. You meet the same woman we met today, a smiling woman wearing a flying-nun sunbonnet and herding her goats over ruined railroad tracks. She calls out, “<i>Kalimera</i>!” (good day!). She asks questions and approves each of the answers you give in faltering Greek with “Bravo!” She wishes you a good road and a good trip, then climbs to high rock to watch her herd and look out to sea, same as the ancients.<br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;"> <o:p></o:p></div></div>Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-6171969954354546232011-10-22T17:49:00.000-07:002011-12-14T11:58:54.314-08:00Occupy Imagination: Everyone Is Invited!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="color: black;">I figured out how to fix the terrible thing that happened to the people who were hurt and killed. We’ll invent a happy ending and invite everyone to it.</span></i><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div align="right" class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">—Zoë Barnstone-Clark, age 3 ½, after 9/11<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Once upon a time, in the past week, a confluence of events—the “end” of the Iraq War, the death of Gaddafi, the growing Occupy Movement, and rekindling my friendship with </i><a href="http://abigailstone.blogspot.com/" style="font-style: italic;">Abigail</a><i>—got me thinking about this essay I wrote on March 8</i><sup style="font-style: italic;">th</sup><i>, 2003, just before the beginning of the Iraq War, </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;"> which the U.S. waged despite the protests of millions around the world. Like the Vietnam War, the Iraq War was justified with lies. Just as Vietnam</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;"> dominated my childhood, so the Iraq War dominated </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;">Zoë's. I was a teenager when the last troops withdrew from Vietnam;</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic;">Zoë is now 14, and American troops are scheduled to leave Iraq before the New Year. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>I still believe that we can bring peace and justice into being, if only we occupy our imaginations. Here is the essay I wrote on the eve of the Iraq War, with some added illustrations and edits.</i></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 171pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Do you remember when you</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 171pt; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Were read to as a child?</span></i><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-style: italic; margin-left: 171pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">—Anne Sexton</span><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-size: large;"><i>Once upon a time,</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"> before I knew better, I tried to keep my daughter Zoë from Barbie dolls. Sometime before her third birthday, she refused to wear anything but pink dresses—the frillier, shinier, and fluffier the better—and she deeply wanted a Barbie. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not to be defeated, I ordered her a Smartee brand doll, marketed to people in my socio-educational bracket. The doll, Destiny the Doctor, came in scrubs, with a tiny medical bag, stethoscope, thermometer, a comb and brush for her long hair, and a story book about how Destiny, with her smarts and hard work, became a doctor and mentored a little girl who also wanted to be a doctor. Destiny looked exactly like Barbie, was three times as expensive, and was poorly made (her impossibly long thin leg fell off immediately and was lost). After I read her the book, an uninspiring utilitarian endorsement of the work ethic, Zoë said, as she often did, “Now let me read it to you.” Here is an abridged version of her tale: “Once upon a time there was a girl named Destiny. She always wanted to be a doctor. So she worked hard and she became a doctor in the hospital, where she met the handsome prince, who fell in love with her because she was very smart and very beautiful, and they got married and lived happily ever after.” </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Zoë, like Alice in Wonderland, chose the enchanted rabbit hole instead of the boring book that her sister read that “had no pictures or conversations in it, `and what is the use of a book,' thought Alice `without pictures or conversation?'” </span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I take pictures and conversation to stand in for the imagination; a book without pictures and conversation has no use, according to Alice, because it is merely informational and practical. Zoë chooses to live in wonderland, to narrate constantly and animate, not only Barbies, but all her dolls and animals.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/">Terri Windling </a>has said, “Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather they were my reality." I, too, believed then (and maybe now) that I could fly; my dolls and stuffed animals came to life at night; animals talked, humans became animals and visa versa; tiny people might live beneath a leaf; true love heals, saves, even transforms the physical world; all children are princesses and princess, regardless of external material wealth or social rank or ethnicity. One of my favorite fairy tales is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Perrault">Charles Perrault’s </a> "The Fairies" (“Toads and Diamonds"): </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlpDEpKuMm0C9e6VQU2HaeM2PXiicdRFn7lDVS9wN2ajj4dC0MipaYMEUDg6FpCDDLCCGtAwOsG04zHdk4H1g-7yrbjT2heIP_ftQSed_65AZmdnZNz8GqxK0UkHtvkLIBt2pzm-oaMlI/s1600/The+Fairies.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlpDEpKuMm0C9e6VQU2HaeM2PXiicdRFn7lDVS9wN2ajj4dC0MipaYMEUDg6FpCDDLCCGtAwOsG04zHdk4H1g-7yrbjT2heIP_ftQSed_65AZmdnZNz8GqxK0UkHtvkLIBt2pzm-oaMlI/s320/The+Fairies.gif" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once upon a time a beautiful and good girl lived with her ill-tempered and ugly sister and widowed mother, who made her work all day. When she went to the fountain to fetch some water, a fairy disguised as an old peasant woman asked for some water. The girl gladly served her water and the fairy rewarded her generosity. Every time she spoke, flowers and jewels came from her mouth. The mother sent her favored daughter to the fountain, so she would receive the same gift. This time the fairy disguised herself as a princess. The ugly girl rudely refused her request for water and the fairy replied, “I will give you a gift to equal your discourtesy. Every time you speak, a toad or snake will come from your mouth.” Of course, the prince fell in love with the good and generous girl, they married and they lived happily ever after, while the ugly and selfish sister was so disgusting, even her mother turned against her and drove her into the forest, where she died miserable and alone.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I see “Fairies” as a paradigm for or story of the making of the poem itself. The fairy tale does what the poet (or this poet, anyway) wants to do—make the word into flesh, into a thing, into matter. Words are more than the spiritual manifestation of the self, they are the self’s visible embodiment, separate and acting in the world. “Fairies” enacts metaphors: "Your good words are flowers and diamonds; your bad words are snakes and toads." So, too, do other fairy tales make the metaphor perform in the narrative. In “Rapunzel” love is blind, for the prince is blinded; but love also heals and makes us see, for Rapunzel’s kiss of true love heals the prince’s eyes. Fairy tales show the poet the muscular energy of metaphor to transport and transform. </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In Greek, </span>μεταφορά <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(metaphora) means transportation, and in Greece freight trucks are painted with the word. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Emerson was probably playing with etymology when he wrote in "The Poet": </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“For all language is vehicular, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance.” By contrast to the metaphor, the simile attenuates the power of imagination; it is like consciousness, in that the <i>mind </i>makes those comparisons, but it is rational and explanatory, doesn't risk leaping into a new shape or skin. The simile says, this is merely a shade, not reality. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I don't want to engage in the kind of extreme political statements about simile that some contemporary poets have made. Sometimes a simile is wild and right in a poem. Anyone who listens to children can hear that they express what they see in marvelous similes. I'm positing the idea that in adult poetry the rhetoric of the simile often creates a distance between the two elements, while the metaphor yokes the elements together. In terms of <i>I and thou</i>, the simile is at a remove (like pity) while metaphor is empathy. Fairy tales have no use for similes—nothing is like anything else because in that world goodness comes into its physical form, as does badness. A man isn’t <i>like</i> a frog until the kiss of love makes him like a prince. He actually<i> is</i> a frog then a prince. A girl’s latent sexuality isn’t <i>like</i> sleep, it <i>is</i> sleep, and so on.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There are other dualities that fairy tales yoke together. Because we are introduced to fairy tales at such a young age, the fairy tale returns the adult poet to her child’s eye of wonder and to the unconscious. When I write a poem, I feel myself in the zone, where the adult and child selves, the conscious and the unconscious, the me and the not-me, the self and other are united and conversing, as in the following poem by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Stone">Ruth Stone</a>. (I spent every summer of my childhood in Vermont, imagining and living fairy tales with Ruth’s daughter, Abigail.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The ugly duckling…<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I stood behind my father’s chair so he couldn’t see my tears<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When he read it to me. Hans Andersen,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I rise from your feathers every spring<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And shake the snow from my windows. The sulfur sears<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My eyes in a world of match girls’ luminous poverty.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I hear your hosannas that life is real and cruel.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The mad stream that takes the brave tin soldier down the flood<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Flows by here. While he passes, impractical child,<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">On his way to death in this strange dream;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Is he still seeing the beautiful, the good? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this poem Ruth doesn’t retell the fairy tales so much as she creates the person who hears the stories read to her. The speaker’s child self in the poem rises from Hans Andersen’s “feathers every spring,” and sees anew, the snow shaken from the windows. And how does the child self see? The child endows full existence to “this strange dream,” the imagination; as Ruth writes, “The mad stream that takes the brave tin soldier down the flood /Flows by here.” “The mad stream” is the fairy tale, the flow of consciousness, and brings to the here and now, the girl standing behind her “father’s chair so he couldn’t see my tears / When he read it to me.” The power of the fairy tale isn’t simply the “happily ever after,” but that the happily ever after sometimes comes after suffering. Not only does the speaker “hear your hosannas that life is real and cruel,” she feels “the sulfur sear” her eyes “in a world of match girls’ luminous poverty.” The reader becomes the freezing and starving match girl who lights each of her last matches, and sees in their small heat, the opulent world of familial love, a table brightly lit, laden with food, a warm room. In this transformational poetics, as the fairy tale enacts the metaphorical play, reading generates the metamorphosis of the self into the other, and ultimately into the writing of the poem.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Crucially, the poem sets up a tension between the “real and cruel” and “the beautiful, the good,” with the rhetorical question at the end: “While he passes, impractical child, / On his way to death in this strange dream; / Is he still seeing the beautiful, the good?” The answer is yes. We know the brave tin soldier is in true love and never stops seeing the beautiful, the good paper ballerina, no matter if he is swept downriver, to be taunted by a rat and swallowed by a fish. The question, overheard internally, is asked by the poet, who wonders whether she still sees “the beautiful, the good,” in the face of the “real and cruel.” But the adult self, who reads with the empathic child standing behind her, has already reentered the magical realm. She has emerged with a poem, not just any poem, not a pretty poem that would please former First Lady Laura Bush; ours is a poem that in a few lines deals with suffering, and class, and love. The poet becomes the “impractical child,” who suffers with the world and sees “the beautiful, the good” alternative. All poets, I would say, are “impractical children”—let’s face it, no one who’s practical, in the usual sense of the word, is going to be a poet in the twenty-first century.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yet the practice of returning to the wondrous hopes and sorrows of the child has practical power, beyond the artifact, the poem itself, which I think is one of the many meanings of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda_Hillman">Brenda Hillman’s</a> line, “the poem is the story of the writing of itself” (25). Freud posits that myths, legends, and fairy tales are the “wishful fantasies of whole nations, the secular dreams of youthful humanity” (440). The poetic revision of the fairy tale is also a revision of the cultural text, a creation of the utopic dream of the impractical child who in Ruth Stone’s poem cries for the ugly duckling, even knowing he is a beautiful swan; who suffers with the match girl, and with her creates a room in which she lives, warm, fed, and loved; who in <a href="http://lavrev.net/night/broumas.html">Olga Broumas’s “Sleeping Beauty,”</a> wakes the public up to “a public kiss” between women.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">At the end of <a href="http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/essays/experience.html">“Experience,” </a>in which Emerson contends with the problem of evil, he writes: “there is victory yet for all justice, and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power." I never understood or believed him until millions across the globe marched against war, a legion of impractical children transforming genius into practical power, until <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0212-02.htm">Sam Hamill</a> woke up the sleeping beauty in thousands with poets against the war. If you think I’m being impractical, let me pose an epistemological question: how do you know the world? Through the boring book Alice’s sister reads? The news media? Textbooks? Movies? By falling down the rabbit hole and remembering “when you / were read to as a child”? Fairy Tales? All of the above, of course, and much more. Emerson also writes, “that it is the universal impulse to believe, that is the material circumstance, and is the principal fact in the history of the globe” (209). Both the “real and the cruel” and “the beautiful, the good” are acts of the imagination. Alice sees no use in her sister’s book without pictures and conversation. But her sister reads her book because to her it is eminently useful. What is possible is an act of imagination. We know this because John Lennon, another impractical child, asked us to imagine peace. A preemptive strike is also an act of imagination, derived from the universal impulse to believe. Ultimately, both are equally expedient; both are fairy tales. Yet we are socialized to believe that one is more realistic than the other. Our ethical task is to understand self-reliantly that the useful, the practical are constructions, and out of that understanding to create a reality that is not cruel, but beautiful and good.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once upon a time, before the world changed, I tried to protect my daughter by keeping my daughter from Barbies. After 9/11 Zoë taught me the practical power of fairy tales: “I figured out how to fix the terrible thing that happened to the people who were hurt and killed. We’ll invent a happy ending and invite everyone to it.” Happily ever after.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Heidi Anne Heiner, SurLaLune Fairy Tales <span style="color: #074d8f;"><a href="http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/">http://www.surlalunefairytales.com</a></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Brenda Hillman, <i>Death Tractates</i> (Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1992).</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ruth Stone, <i>Topography and Other Poems</i> (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970).</span><br />
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</div></div>Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2612544589029618487.post-79128094533947703032011-10-16T04:18:00.000-07:002011-11-28T07:30:51.345-08:00My First Blog Post: To Abigail Blue Jay Stone with Love<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">On October 14, 2011, I reconnected with <a href="http://abigailstone.blogspot.com/">Abigail Blue Jay Stone</a>, my childhood friend. Well, to say that Abigail is my childhood friend is too generic, too neutral. When I was Kiki and she was Abby, she was the sister I never had. She was more than a sister. Three years older, she was the beloved <i>big</i> sister I looked up to, and who gave me courage to have a voice. Beginning when I was six, my family spent our summers in Vermont, twenty minutes away from Goshen, where Abigail lived with her two older sisters and her mother. All winter long in Indiana, I looked forward to returning <i>home</i> to Vermont, where I really lived, and where I’d be with Abby again.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When we had a sleepover, I’d have to spend the night in Goshen because her mom was afraid she’d lose her if she let her out of her sight—or least that’s the way it looked by my lights. If we invited Abby to come along with us to Lake Dunmore, she couldn’t come because she might drown or we might get into a car accident. I remember our picking out some <i>Archie</i> comics and <i>Tiger Beat</i> in Sid Rosen’s Ben Franklin Five and Dime, but that must have been when we’d gone to town for groceries in her mother’s station wagon. If we were lucky, we called out “Dibs on the way back!” quicker than anyone else, and we got to ride backwards, the broken yellow lines, pine trees, and mountains receding in the rear window as we sang “The Happy Wanderer” – “ValderEEE,<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">Val-der-AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA! “<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">Like so many girls, we were in love with the Beatles. In 1964, when CBS broadcast the summer reruns of the Ed Sullivan Show, we walked (probably barefoot) the two miles to Abigail’s aunt’s to watch. There were thousands upon thousands of tiny baby toads hopping all over the damp dirt road, and innumerable fireflies in the fields, and the dark was nearly pure and the millions of stars in the Milky Way shone brighter than anything, and I was with Abby (and some other girls, too)—and all of this added up to joy and to my joy to see the Beatles almost live on TV. We sat on the rug, a braided one my memory says, impatient for Ed to finish up his introduction, the jerky dance he did as he spoke. When Beatles sang, I felt love catch in my throat. During “Till There Was You,” their names floated beneath their faces in white caps: PAUL, RINGO, GEORGE, JOHN – <i>SORRY GIRLS, HE’S MARRIED. </i>We lived the Beatles’ songs and understood the world through their music and lyrics. We’d sprawl on Abby’s bed listen to all our Beatles albums over and over on her record player (yes, we had <i>record players</i>). If one of us jumped to the wide-plank floor and made the record skip, she’d have to apologize to the girl whose favorite Beatle was singing. Abby’s favorite was George. Mine was Paul because John—sorry girls—was married. As the Beatles’ imagination developed, so did ours, and my favorite became John—he still is. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib97JcsrimarAWEwsJ_n5tzoWBbagdjdAkJdr_IbVjpwYVwb7XgKWS1kDunIUhFi33DNbFXwVHBAu36-o6F3Z4NgnN8D2ogH5csb8jOqJOv31m74fMSkIt7w63FGUUvG8LBxbCBLk18IU/s1600/JOHN-SORRY+GIRLS.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib97JcsrimarAWEwsJ_n5tzoWBbagdjdAkJdr_IbVjpwYVwb7XgKWS1kDunIUhFi33DNbFXwVHBAu36-o6F3Z4NgnN8D2ogH5csb8jOqJOv31m74fMSkIt7w63FGUUvG8LBxbCBLk18IU/s320/JOHN-SORRY+GIRLS.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">As a teenager, Abby became Blue Jay, learned how to play guitar, and wrote songs. She still writes wonderful songs, still has an astonishing voice. Abigail, whether she was Abby or Blue Jay, didn’t leave behind her child self. Abigail and Phoebe, her older sister, still pulled out the cardboard boxes full of miniatures and we played “Tiny Furniture.” We made a whole village on the front porch floor. Abigail had a different voice for each of the figures, miniature Minnie and Mickey Mouse, the little people and bears and dogs. She acted out whole dramas impromptu. I was shy, afraid to try a voice, and Abigail drew me out: “Here you go, Kiki, you can have Minnie. She’s very nice and will tell you what she wants you to say.” I don’t know if those were the exact words, but something like that, something reassuring, something to give me faith that there’s “magic everywhere.” <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">The back of the Stone’s old farmhouse was an apple orchard, and deep in the orchard was a white playhouse, where we’d enter our fairy tale in the making. One day Abby and I were sisters—orphaned sisters, of course—and a witch cast a spell on her that made her forget who she was and who I was. I chased her through the orchard, past her mom tending the hollyhocks and foxgloves that leaned against peeling clapboard, out to the road, round the big maple. “Please remember you’re my sister! Come with me, come back home!” <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">“I don’t know who you are! <i>Why</i> are you bothering me? Go away!” <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">I kept pleading and she stayed in character so convincingly that I took it to heart. “Please stop, Abby.”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">“My name’s not Abby, you fool, it’s Dianne.”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">I turned away, bent over the car’s dark blue hood to hide my face, and cried. Abby stroked my hair. “What’s the matter, Kiki?”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">“You were being mean. You weren’t you.”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">“It wasn’t me, it was a pretend person.” <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">“You didn’t know who I was anymore.”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">“It was just a game. I know who you are, Kiki. Let’s play something else, okay?”<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">When I spent the night, I didn’t know if I’d be in Goshen one night or several. I guess sometimes my parents weren’t up for making the drive the next day and they couldn’t call ahead. Communication wasn’t so easy in those days. For a while, Abigail’s family only had a pay phone on the front porch. We didn’t even have a phone in our Vermont home for the first three years, and after that we had a party line (like “Mayberry, R.F.D.,” minus the always happily resolved family drama). I was happy for as much time as I could get with Abby, so I felt a mixture of disappointment and gladness when we heard the rare vehicle on the dirt road and I recognized our family car arriving in a cloud of dust. My parents and my two younger brothers, radically wired and skinny, would make their way through the high grass to the farmhouse, with Poochie and Coalie barking crazily from the screened-in front porch. The much-mythologized get-together commenced. We cooked together (with the cats, George Harrison and Frank O’Hara, underfoot). Dinner was spaghetti, garlic bread, and salad. We ate sitting around the fireplace, roasted marshmallows for dessert. We played the poetry game. We made art and we were, each of us, “Marvelous!” <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">We both have parents who are larger-than-life literary figures, renowned for their work, generosity, and mentoring and nurturing aspiring writers. They do possess all the wonderful characteristics attributed to them. And they also wounded us, not on purpose. I think that <i>for them</i> their art is salvific, and that, like many children of people who produce and excel, somehow we got the message that they loved us for what we make, not for who we ARE. Abigail and I realized how much we miss each other, how much we long to be active friends again, because of a Facebook misunderstanding that was my fault, and about which I’m so sorry. I gushed one too many times about her mother being my poetry mother. Abigail protested, “<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">YOU and I were friends when we were children. You were friends with ME, Kiki, not my mother. If all you can say to me is how much you adore my mother, then please tell her, don't tell me.” Maybe it’s taken me this long to get over being the adoring younger one. Maybe it takes over a half a century to heal, and to understand that I am loved in return. Maybe it takes all these years to find my voice and confess, “I look at your profile ALL the time, longing to reconnect with you. I'm crying as I write this. You can't even imagine how much I love you, have always loved you.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">“</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">You see, we share not only history but such similar upbringings</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 8.5pt;">,” </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Abigail wrote.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> “We have writing and everything, absolutely everything, in common." And she’s right. We both have a Jewish father and a Christian mother and have changed Jewish names. We’re Ashkenazi from the same region. We both have suicides in our family. Since it’s everything, absolutely everything, the list goes on and on. When I constructed this blog a year ago, I thought I’d post some memories, some little vignettes that might help me give some shape for my research on family history, anti-Semitism and prejudice, mental illness and suicide.</span> I want to write a counter-narrative to the denial narrative. Since then,<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"> I’ve been casting about for over a year, trying to find voice. I couldn’t even find a way to post something, not a sentence.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">When we were children—and then two days ago—Abigail showed me that sometimes we make mistakes and hurt a loved one, but love—real love that sees and knows the other—heals and redeems. She reminded me of who I am and who she is. We together—playing pretend, writing, singing, drawing, dancing, telling secrets, listening to Beatles, walking barefoot on the dirt road in Goshen—were free in our imaginations. Abigail made me brave. She showed me I have a voice, and, like Walt Whitman, I can speak in as many voices as I want: “I am large, I contain multitudes.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Abigail’s loving, corrective words opened the floodgates, as they say. That’s why I’m devoting my very first blog post to her. From the beginning, she’s been my friend, spiritual sister, and support. And now she’s given me a way to begin again.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div>Alikihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12096302250070751031noreply@blogger.com1