tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post2402611266377676439..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: RetreatUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-16384078788400824522011-12-22T04:12:56.018-08:002011-12-22T04:12:56.018-08:00Was it Dostoyevsky who said, In the fog everything...Was it Dostoyevsky who said, In the fog everything is assumed but nothing is permitted?TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5784004819499978732011-12-22T02:32:44.277-08:002011-12-22T02:32:44.277-08:00Beautiful poem Tom. And beautiful follow up commen...Beautiful poem Tom. And beautiful follow up comments. Joy to read.<br /><br />winter fog-<br /><br />i assume<br /><br />everythingadityahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16078144194220301083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20909938816801410282011-12-21T17:06:10.763-08:002011-12-21T17:06:10.763-08:00The delicacy, the suggestion, the evocation of wha...The delicacy, the suggestion, the evocation of what might be there...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88357655662089041072011-12-21T14:20:08.005-08:002011-12-21T14:20:08.005-08:00That last image Tom (Tohaku) is stunning. So much ...That last image Tom (Tohaku) is stunning. So much life in that ink..https://www.blogger.com/profile/00532376301529981186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81583700882834252242011-12-20T04:37:13.308-08:002011-12-20T04:37:13.308-08:00Thanks, Vassilis.
As a matter of fact the "D...Thanks, Vassilis.<br /><br />As a matter of fact the "D" batteries in the bedside torch are (like the sad sack in the sack) down to a feeble glimmer. And so, as we come to the shortest (also perhaps coldest) night of the year, the rhetorical question "Where?" seems to multiply in its interrogative reverberations.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86593325259610238492011-12-19T22:47:01.688-08:002011-12-19T22:47:01.688-08:00"Scary?"
Fog, so
beautiful
and yet s..."Scary?"<br /><br /><br />Fog, so<br /><br />beautiful<br /><br />and yet so<br /><br /><br />where<br /><br />do we go from here<br /><br /><br />thanks,Tom, for the flash of lightvazambam (Vassilis Zambaras)https://www.blogger.com/profile/14515165428574974933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-6964783473779392212011-12-19T17:32:51.414-08:002011-12-19T17:32:51.414-08:00Steve,
Thanks for that fleeting glimpse of the or...Steve,<br /><br />Thanks for that fleeting glimpse of the orange end of fog against sunlit ridge -- an illumination.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-28407597142994320002011-12-19T15:41:54.140-08:002011-12-19T15:41:54.140-08:00Tom, hi.
I'm writing a (kinda) review of BASE...Tom, hi.<br /><br />I'm writing a (kinda) review of BASEBALL 35 years late for a baseball website. Any way I could ask you a few questions about it? <br /><br />If so, please email me: baumann[dot]baumann[at]gmail[dot]comRobert J.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16333917853085782315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25500467115651573052011-12-19T10:40:12.739-08:002011-12-19T10:40:12.739-08:00Tom,
"Some sense of time passing" towar...Tom,<br /><br />"Some sense of time passing" toward the longest night of the year -- in Denmark, East Frisia, mist in japan, even over there in the dark in Berkeley, and here. . .<br /><br />12.19<br /><br />light coming into sky above still black<br />ridge, waning white moon next to branch<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> regard for subject in terms<br /> of color, one another<br /><br /> that some time, sound there<br /> something else, which<br /><br />orange edge of fog against sunlit ridge,<br />wingspan of pelican gliding to the leftSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-10365372736645829542011-12-19T07:57:49.180-08:002011-12-19T07:57:49.180-08:00How post-modern of them. CurtisHow post-modern of them. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79832621418765420942011-12-19T06:40:00.831-08:002011-12-19T06:40:00.831-08:00Curtis:
I'm afraid I'd never have the cou...Curtis:<br /><br />I'm afraid I'd never have the courage - we would discover two bad poems, one atop the other. It is so much more romantic (Tom, I never thought PM - now that I have, I'll try not to think it again) a notion that there are two little immortal pieces, lost forever.<br /><br />Tom, I have discovered that my handwriting in the dark is generally much more readable than it is normally which doesn't say much about my mental quietude and emotional stability.<br /><br />It is quite nice to know that there is fine company at 3am, albeit we are all alone together ... and now that I think of all those thousand hands reaching for all those shades again, it may be time to go back to sleep.<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59886022669332198032011-12-19T06:21:54.103-08:002011-12-19T06:21:54.103-08:00Curtis,
There are actually postmodern poets who p...Curtis,<br /><br />There are actually postmodern poets who publish facsimiles of their palimpsests. <br /><br />(Thrill a minute!)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-44995395758906823392011-12-19T06:18:48.631-08:002011-12-19T06:18:48.631-08:00Don,
Now that you've admitted it, I'm goi...Don,<br /><br />Now that you've admitted it, I'm going to have to confess that the entirety of my own latterday poetic "output" (including this piece and the one beneath) has occurred under exactly those same circumstances.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45456552433373710312011-12-19T06:08:14.959-08:002011-12-19T06:08:14.959-08:00I had been saving this for a bit -- until I really...I had been saving this for a bit -- until I really needed it, I guess -- and am very glad I did. It's splendid in the ways Don says. I would love to see his palimpsest. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27738797319132345762011-12-19T05:24:01.751-08:002011-12-19T05:24:01.751-08:00Tom, beautiful. There is, in my addled brain, a m...Tom, beautiful. There is, in my addled brain, a movement in the artwork from present photographic reality to historic past, like tracing a river back to its (artistic) source.<br /><br />Seems I'm lost and no doubt will be walking, head first, into a scratchy pine any minute. All this fog!<br /><br />And a memory, perhaps, recaptured in the poem? Very nice. (I wrote a poem in a little notepad I keep by the bed, in the middle of the night without the light, a while back, so as not to wake up Laurie, and discovered I hadn't turned the page since the last one and ended up with an unreadable palimpsest, which I am very proud of).<br /><br />Retreat!<br /><br />DonIssa's Untidy Huthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07352841590717991698noreply@blogger.com