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A poem at Valparaiso Poetry Review
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- James Owens
- Ein Klage-Himmel, "a lament-heaven," from Rilke's "Orpheus. Eurydike. Hermes." Poetry's post-rupture, post-lapsus, post-death-of-Eurydice dream of recreating that primal world -- Eden, childhood, Orpheus's singing -- where word and thing were one.
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3 comments:
Strong image: a lyric
Flush of detail, crimping along
The lucent, veined edge of a maple key
That fills the cleared space of the mind
The cleared space is such a wonderful possibility. Also, like the form here. Fascinating ending with the opening in trees. Congratulations with this piece.
I think the ending is gorgeous both in image and in the lengthening of words in the mouth.
That fills the cleared space of the mind,
Understanding like music against late-spring chill
Where the sun breathes an opening in the trees.
this is brilliant. if only my new woods pictures came out good, to illustrate a bit of this - because this is what i felt myself being there, between the trees, in the air filled with light. this clarity of being.
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