Never surrender opportunity for security.
Month: June 2023
Branch Rickey quote.
“Luck is the residue of design.”
Waiting by Robert Creeley
Waiting for the object,
the abject adjunct—
the loss of feel here,
field, faded.
Singing inside,
outside grey, wet,
cold out. The weather
doesn’t know it,
goes only on to
wherever.
for Charlie & Joe on Father’s Day
for my two father’s on Father’s Day. May they sit at the heavenly kitchen table with my mother and later play some cards with Uncle Joe & Aunt Mary. Miss you all.
both opposite
in manner
yet the same
in devotion
to that woman
who dominated
all our lives
the lesson learned
there’s more than one way
to love
Inscription on the Highest Tower by Ion Pop
Implore
cry out
scream
until
your
howl
begins
to make
itself
heard
translated by Adam J. Sorkin & Livin Bleoca
Here And Now by Ion Pop
A man’s brain
intact at the sidewalk’s edge
at Liberty Square
There with its blood
and a loaf of bread
Between a few candles
Like an altar decomposing
I’m writing about it here and now,
so later I can’t say
I never saw it.
translated by Adam J. Sorkin & Ioana Ieronim
Poem by Nichita Stanescu
Tell me, if I caught you one day
and kissed you on the sole of your foot,
you’d limp a bit afterwards, wouldn’t you,
for fear you might crush my kiss?
translated by Adam J. Sorkin & Anca Peiu
Largo by George Bacovia: posted for Mariana Catalina whose taste may have changed
The music made every atom ring . . .
Longing for you, and for another world,
Longing . . .
A nameless misery
Hung
Over man . . .
All pondered their lives,
Their vanishing.
The music sentimentalized
Exhaustingly,—
Longing for you, and for another world,
Longing . . .
The music made every atom ring.
translated by Peter Jay
at 4 o’clock in the morning
no sound
quite so forlorn
as a phone
not ringing
at 4 o’clock
in the morning
On A Theme By Lawrence, Hearing Purcell by Robert Creeley
Knowing what
knowing is,
think less
of your life as labor.
Pain’s increase,
thought’s random torture,
grow with intent.
Simply live.
Leonard Durso 