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Praia Sacho, Fernando de Noronha archipelago, off the coast of Brazil: photo by Bjørn Christian Tøorrisen, 2006
- He did not know
- it's the same old trick
- every time; that
- in the mystery
- waves
- speech makes, the world
- and mind
- are pitched up on the rocks
- Prospero did not know
- how he got there
- island vacations
- are like that
Wake Island: NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) satellite image: photo by NASA, 2005
9 comments:
wonderful pic ...interesting words....you remind me of Robinson Crusoe...:)
Gracias, Sandra.
I'm overdue for an island vacation.
in the mystery
waves
speech makes, the world
and mind
are pitched up on the rocks
This and the other lines/sentences are beautifully said and ring true for me.
I'm hearing you on the island vacation sentiment in a big way.
The Brazil beach looks splendid. Wake Island looks like an enormous swimming pool set in the ocean. I just revisited Wake's history and remembered some of what I had forgotten. Things seem to have settled down there.
Curtis,
Let's at least agree to experience that island vacation from a reasonable imaginative distance.
Indeed that beach could not be farther from the world around me at present if it were a dust cloud in the tail of the Andromeda galaxy.
But happily, one can, in rare fugitive moments, pick the spots where one chooses to imagine oneself.
See you there, then.
Tom,
Would that we could go there, but as Caliban reminds him, "This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother". . . .
This will stay with me for a while. Especially this:
in the mystery
waves
speech makes, the world
and mind
are pitched up on the rocks
Bradorn, Tom. Bradorn.
I'm booking two tickets to the isle of Bradorn right now -- one for me, and one for my mother, Sycorax.
Shakespeare had friends on
Prospero's island
Shakespeare grasped the new world
This rough magic
Elmo,
In that respect, as well as perhaps one or two others, Shakespeare was several leagues ahead of yours truly.
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