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Literary links linger'd over by a poet....

Friday, October 25, 2002
Today is the anniversary of
Richard Brautigan's suicide (1984). Sigh. What a beautiful poet he was.

I Live in the Twentieth Century

I live in the Twentieth Century
and you lie here beside me. You
were unhappy when you fell asleep.
There was nothing I could do about
it. I felt hopeless. Your face
is so beautiful that I cannot stop
to describe it, and there's nothing
I can do to make you happy while
you sleep.


posted by Celia Friday, October 25, 2002
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Thursday, October 24, 2002
October is great month for poet births. Today is the birthday of the wonderful Denise Levertov. I saw her read in Seattle at an anti-war protest in 1992. It was windy & she held up the piece of paper she was reading from & held the rest, flapping, with one little foot. (Sharon Olds also often tells a great anecdote about being seated opposite Denise Levertov's shoes.)

Not yet, not yet --
There is too much broken
that must be mended.

too much hurt that we have done to each other
that cannot yet be forgiven.

We have only begun to know
the power that is in us if we would join
our solitudes in the communion of struggle.

So much is unfolding that must
complete its gesture,

so much is in bud.


---Denise Levertov, excerpt, "Beginners" [via the
daily bleed]


posted by Celia Thursday, October 24, 2002
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