Day: February 19, 2016

You felt strange

You said you felt strange in the night

It was the lack of oxygen

So I invented stories for you

I read  aloud from this blog

for an hour

Till you were calm.

I went back to bed

Then got up and began again

Until one day  there was no

Again.

You knew

Where to go,by then

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because you kissed me

I  remember holding your hand.

A man told us off because you kissed me.

On the top deck of a  London bus.

Imagine that.

Before photocopiers,we copied ,by hand,

Articles from newspapers in South Africa House

About torture.

The guard never said a word.

Then you wrote an article.

If you did anything silly

And I asked you why

You said, it seemed a good idea

at the time.

Where are you?

I looked in the shed

I looked in the bed

I looked everywhere

but I can’t find you.

It’s not fun anymore.

 

I won’t let you

He said,I could go to the City

It’s just you won’t let me

I said,that’s true,I won’t let you.

Sweetheart.

He said,I could get dressed and meet my friends

But you won’t let me.

I said

No,I won’t let you.

I won’t

let you.

He said,I’ll be alright tomorrow,won’t I?Will you let me?

I said,Yes,I’ll let you.

Then he smiled at me and closed his eyes

And I let him

Go

And he went.

 

 

 

He isn’t here

He isn’t here

The air rippled like sea

Niarbyll bay and butterflies

I caught a glance

In water

Shining

He isn’t here

Waves blind me

With white heads

Sunlight in the morning

Hit the fridge door

He isn’t here

The teapot glinted

An  eye,perhaps.

The warmth is unusual for February

I went to the hospital again

He wasn’t there

He wasn’t there

He wasn’t there

 

Lydia Davis author

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6366/art-of-fiction-no-227-lydia-davis

I have a lot of books on Zen Buddhism. One of my favorite titles is Open Mouth Already a Mistake. That may provide a better insight into leaving out articles. It has something of the saying, the tag, or the pronouncement.

 

 

 

Yehuda Amichai

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2095/the-art-of-poetry-no-44-yehuda-amichai

A Child is Something Else Again

BY YEHUDA AMICHAI

TRANSLATED BY CHANA BLOCH

A child is something else again. Wakes up
in the afternoon and in an instant he’s full of words,
in an instant he’s humming, in an instant warm,
instant light, instant darkness.
A child is Job. They’ve already placed their bets on him
but he doesn’t know it. He scratches his body
for pleasure. Nothing hurts yet.
They’re training him to be a polite Job,
to say “Thank you” when the Lord has given,
to say “You’re welcome” when the Lord has taken away.
A child is vengeance.
A child is a missile into the coming generations.
I launched him: I’m still trembling.
A child is something else again: on a rainy spring day
glimpsing the Garden of Eden through the fence,
kissing him in his sleep,
hearing footsteps in the wet pine needles.
A child delivers you from death.
Child, Garden, Rain, Fate.

 

 

Caucus

  • hand and foot

caucus

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Line breaks: cau¦cus

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔːkəs/

Definition of caucus in English:

noun (plural caucuses)

1(In some US states) a meeting at which local members of a political party register their preference among candidates running for office or select delegates to attend a convention:Hawaii holds its nominating caucuses next Tuesdayhe stumbled through the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary
2A conference of members of a legislative body who belong to a particular party or faction:Mr Kerry attended the morning caucus in the Old Senate Chamber where his fellow Democrats selected the new minority leadership
2The members of a legislative body who belong to a particular party or faction, considered as a group:she is renowned for her ability to unite her caucus
2.1An informal group composed of legislators who have shared concerns or interests:a member of the Congressional Black Caucusthe Knesset’s Christian allies caucus
A group within an organization or political party which meets independently to discuss strategy or tactics:up to fifty caucuses met daily on conference grounds to discuss lobbying strategieshe was forced out by a hard-left caucus which had taken over his constituency party

verb (caucuses, caucusing, caucused)

[NO OBJECT] chiefly USBack to top  

1Hold or form a legislative caucus:Republicans briefly caucusedthere is one Independent who caucuses with the Democrats
1.1(Of a voter) attend an electoral caucus, especially on behalf of a particular candidate:more than half of those young people that caucused yesterday caucused for Barack Obama

Origin

mid 18th century: perhaps from Algonquian cau’-cau’-as’u ‘adviser’.

Raucous or harsh

raucous

See definition in Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary

Line breaks: rau|cous

Pronunciation: /ˈrɔːkəs/

Definition of raucous in English:

adjective

Making or constituting a disturbingly harsh and loud noise:raucous youths

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Derivatives

raucously
Pronunciation: /ˈrɔːkəsli/

adverb

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raucousness
Pronunciation: /ˈrɔːkəsnəs/

noun

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Origin

Mid 18th century: from Latin raucus ‘hoarse’ + -ous.

In the snow, I think

 

 

Too old for cold,I stand, now ,against our hedge,
Watching   snowflakes in the glare of neon street lights.
Darkness has come early,and I think of country uplands and huddled sheep.
On Salisbury Plain,shepherds watched their flocks
Just as in Bethlehem two thousand years before,
But, “between the wars”,it stopped.
Now we know there is no “between the wars”.
Who decided
To cull the sheep and shepherds and the space for kindness ?
Now that same Plain still exists,but banned.
It’s closed to human-kind,
For bombs ,not wombs it’s there
Not for birth of lamb ,nor gypsy child ,nor Saviour.
Where would He go today?