"Poetry comes at things through particulars, by means of images, and it doesn't deal so easily with generalities. Its mode is to cherish without limit. You could say it is idolatrous art. Some poems, the great poems, are true to their specific situations deep down, but they also have a universal quality that lets them live again and again, even in apparently unrelated circumstances." -Galway Kinnell
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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the names of flowers pot-holed streets, sluggish gutters-- they cleared a space and
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from Flowers by Dennis Craig
Oh, yeah, and I went full haiku to return to the original order... js
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