{"id":139,"date":"2018-03-01T21:27:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T01:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aerendel.ca\/perspective\/?page_id=139"},"modified":"2019-08-20T05:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T08:57:30","slug":"poetry","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aerendel.ca\/perspective\/poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 1st, 2018 — -2\u02daC \/ +28\u02daF with light snow falling @8:01 pm in Atlantic Canada —<\/em><\/p>\n

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—While rearranging my home office here, I dug through some old files and re-discovered some poetry from a while back —<\/em><\/p>\n

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1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
one night
\nthe sea was solid
\nthere was a yellow cloud
\nheaving with the motion
\nof our ship
\nluminous, sick yellow
\nabove a mercuric sea
\n– silver metallic, many jagged edges
\npine tree shaped
\nwedges of water
\ncontinually slipped-
\nslid in precisely cut grooves<\/p>\n

so detailed, so clear, so amazing
\nmirror polished silver stones
\ncontinually slipping
\ninto a gelatinous base<\/p>\n

flat surfaces
\nforever sliding,
\nlubricated
\nas the sun went down
\n(uneasy?)
\nbehind that luminous
\nyellow
\ncloud<\/p>\n

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… much too close
\nto the Bermuda
\nTriangle.<\/td>\n

un soir
\nla mere \u00e9tais solide
\nil y avait un nuage jaune
\nsoulevant avec le mouvement
\nde notre bateau
\nmalade, jaune lumineux
\nd’une mer de mercure
\n– m\u00e9tallique argent\u00e9- beaucoup ont \u00e9br\u00e9ch\u00e9 les cales
\nform\u00e9es par arbre de pin
\nde bords de l’eau
\ncontinuellemont glisser- gliss\u00e9es dans les cannelures
\navec pr\u00e9cision coup\u00e9es<\/p>\n

le miroir tellement d\u00e9taill\u00e9, ainsi clair,
\nainsi \u00e9tonnant a poliles pierres argent\u00e9es
\nglissant continuellement
\ndans une base g\u00e9latineuse<\/p>\n

sufaces plates
\ntoujours glissement,
\nlubrifie
\ndurant couch\u00e9 de soleil
\n(incommode?)
\nen derri\u00e8re ce lumineux
\njaune
\nnuage<\/p>\n

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… beaucoup trop pr\u00e8s
\nde la triangle
\ndes Bermudes.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

— Jim Wellington (1970)<\/p>\n

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= = = = =<\/p>\n

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From a Wandervogel<\/p>\n

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If I could see you<\/p>\n

softly beside me<\/p>\n

indifferent to the dust and chaos<\/p>\n

open to the breezes which support<\/p>\n

our eyes away from the props<\/p>\n

of their neo-simian push button<\/p>\n

dreams of civilization<\/p>\n

I’d find you glowing, tingling<\/p>\n

in the cool, living air<\/p>\n

and moving Earth and Spring<\/p>\n

with a sigh<\/p>\n

I would not blink<\/p>\n

for fear you’d disappear<\/p>\n

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If I could touch you<\/p>\n

trembling, as my way<\/p>\n

would be to gently take<\/p>\n

your hand and lead you slowly<\/p>\n

with great care<\/p>\n

toward my world<\/p>\n

noting to discard<\/p>\n

whatever you believe should be<\/p>\n

in someone else’s aura<\/p>\n

before you know it’s me I;m changing<\/p>\n

to fit your whim<\/p>\n

(because I suddenly found<\/p>\n

my universe wanting)<\/p>\n

I would not breathe<\/p>\n

for fear you’d shatter<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

If I could show you<\/p>\n

innocent and jeweled fragments<\/p>\n

of a hard and decaying planet<\/p>\n

as flowers, whose infant curiosity<\/p>\n

pushes pavement aside<\/p>\n

and children we forgot to teach<\/p>\n

about war<\/p>\n

put Generals out of my mind<\/p>\n

where they can do no harm<\/p>\n

I would not point<\/p>\n

you already see<\/p>\n

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If I could teach you<\/p>\n

something which has no time<\/p>\n

while they annihilate our bodies<\/p>\n

we could stand here and say<\/p>\n

how foolish<\/p>\n

to think they could harm us<\/p>\n

and spend\u00a0 fleeting eternities<\/p>\n

sending lights<\/p>\n

bounding happy and secret<\/p>\n

except to our eyes<\/p>\n

to play like tiny fishes<\/p>\n

dancing in each other’s hair<\/p>\n

I would not speak<\/p>\n

you already know<\/p>\n

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If I could hold you<\/p>\n

as my own<\/p>\n

I could watch the sky fall<\/p>\n

while men run toward their bitter<\/p>\n

and final end<\/p>\n

and never move my eyes<\/p>\n

away from your smile<\/p>\n

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and I can see<\/p>\n

quietly<\/p>\n

the fire<\/p>\n

that turns the turbines<\/p>\n

that move the galaxies<\/p>\n

working through you<\/p>\n

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— \u00a9 Jim Wellington (1971-ish)<\/p>\n

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–<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, March 1st, 2018 — -2\u02daC \/ +28\u02daF with light snow falling @8:01 pm in Atlantic Canada —   —While rearranging my home office here, I dug through some old files and re-discovered some poetry from a while back —     1. one night the sea was solid there\u2026<\/p>\n

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