tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3562421153626320481..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Like Night AnimalsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47287970356000351422011-04-22T00:37:40.880-07:002011-04-22T00:37:40.880-07:00The wakeful night animals thank you, friends.
Abo...The wakeful night animals thank you, friends.<br /><br />About naming, Vincent, interesting, yes; and at best doubtful, too, always. All names seem intermediate in the sense that they are only provisional conveniences with which we make do in our speedy fugit through the tempus (fugitives temporarily caught up in the everlasting cosmic tempest). An immediate naming process perhaps once existed at an earlier stage in our descent from a blest arboreal habitation, when the early humanoids, having put their appendages upon the ground and looked anxiously about, pointed to something or someone and uttered a sound -- a deictic sort of naming, as "There!" Or maybe, "Hey, you!"<br /><br /><br />Artemisia, thank you very much for noting that the form of this is a "round", much as a night animal slithering around to try catch its tail in a bush. I think that must have been the original form of poetry, some form of words or sounds that recurs. It could be said that the "round" form goes nowhere, but that would redound to its glory. It was always here, it's always radiating around, it's always going nowhere. A ride on that merry-go-round could just last forever. Maybe, almost.<br /><br />Until about 575 years ago, it was the standard form of poetry, the country round dance that was then adopted by the higher-ups and taken to court... and, alas, having been exposed to the flimsy yet always alluring gaiety of Paree, never came back. <br /><br />No, as we are all too aware, going to court changes everything.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20562937620507943292011-04-21T15:36:17.840-07:002011-04-21T15:36:17.840-07:00Like Night Animals..
Beautiful poem..A villanelle...Like Night Animals..<br /><br />Beautiful poem..A villanelle by any other name, nice twists, turns and echoes of same!<br /><br />Much enjoyed,<br />Thank you.<br />AArtemesiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06120821017998835883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66484875171142156362011-04-21T10:27:00.115-07:002011-04-21T10:27:00.115-07:00the juxtaposition of naming with night animals exp...the juxtaposition of naming with night animals explodes with appropriateness in the brain, somehow. always "somehow" is a quality of (and quantity in) your work.<br /><br />I was about to continue with a rave about hummingbirds but no, not now!VINCENT FARNSWORTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840705566779483677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-33272040031501581222011-04-21T07:56:55.645-07:002011-04-21T07:56:55.645-07:00"just like the night to play tricks
when you&..."just like the night to play tricks<br />when you're trying to be so quiet"<br /><br />"...who transit through the house, sometimes quietly and sometimes noisily at night"<br /><br />Ah, Elmo, those old tricks...<br /><br />Curtis, I don't know how you get any sleep at all. I have given my nights over to serving as the doorkeeper of the jungle creatures. Currently there are four here, each demanding various ins and outs and feedings at various specific and precise intervals. Together we prowl about the house, gaze out from the darkness of the interior upon the rain dripping through the redwood branches upon the broken steps, as the patrol cars cruise suspiciously through the streets.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-72959906820860583362011-04-21T04:14:42.491-07:002011-04-21T04:14:42.491-07:00When I read the poem and see these pictures, I thi...When I read the poem and see these pictures, I think: a) I feel exactly like this and it's how I think the wild animals feel at night; and b) I think my 10 cats, who transit through the house, sometimes quietly and sometimes noisily at night, feel like I as a supposedly civilized human am supposed to feel. The photos are amazing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-40795369477387469512011-04-20T16:47:45.795-07:002011-04-20T16:47:45.795-07:00"just like the night to play tricks
when you..."just like the night to play tricks<br /> when you're trying to be so quiet"<br /> <br /> Bob DylanElmo St. Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01588245143022651357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-21807444523412491702011-04-20T11:19:23.529-07:002011-04-20T11:19:23.529-07:00Tom,
like night animals/ of interior vision/ betw...Tom,<br /><br />like night animals/ of interior vision/ between memory/ and oblivion. . . .<br /><br /><br />4.20<br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />ridge, shadowed green black pine branch<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> that parallel to appearance<br /> of that, possibility<br /><br /> as that, surface of visible<br /> action, dimension as<br /><br />grey-white fog against invisible ridge,<br />circular green pine on tip of sandspitSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5396563961191308862011-04-20T08:48:24.713-07:002011-04-20T08:48:24.713-07:00That's definitely a lovely $20 set of eyeballs...That's definitely a lovely $20 set of eyeballs.<br /><br />If we could understand that great language, the language would be ruined. That's its beauty -- its imperviousness, or immunity, to us.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-82149634137501254252011-04-20T08:44:34.956-07:002011-04-20T08:44:34.956-07:00Apropos synchrony: China Miéville, over at Reject...Apropos synchrony: China Miéville, over at <a href="http://chinamieville.net/post/4774085401/an-animals-eyes-have-the-power-to-speak-a-great" rel="nofollow"> Rejectamentalist Manifesto</a>, posted this quote today: ‘An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.’John B-Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01041221232768939991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39171326034540662272011-04-20T08:36:42.578-07:002011-04-20T08:36:42.578-07:00I don't want to believe that legend that he sp...I don't want to believe that legend that he sprayed the blankets George Amherst gave to the Iroquois with smallpox virus. That would be germ warfare. No unAmerican doings in this proving grounds...er, jungle, please, George.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-88911386243633509662011-04-20T06:27:25.605-07:002011-04-20T06:27:25.605-07:003 Quick Qs Before Work:
1. Does this mean, "...3 Quick Qs Before Work:<br /><br />1. Does this mean, "Don't miss her one-woman show, Katy Perry IS Martha Washington!"?<br /><br />2. Should any of these jungle night creatures eat you whole, does it make them a reincarnivore?<br /><br />3. Finally, why aren't the American taxpayers taking care of your demo at the White House, whilst you and Mrs. Clarkbama relax in St. Croix?<br /><br />I'll take my answers off the air...kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1566062451331498722011-04-20T05:21:59.041-07:002011-04-20T05:21:59.041-07:00It's not easy being reincarnated.<a href="http://www.hulu.com/watch/215178/saturday-night-live-george-washington" rel="nofollow">It's not easy being reincarnated</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-1491592692910316772011-04-20T04:08:35.492-07:002011-04-20T04:08:35.492-07:00I still like to think of you as the Father of our ...I still like to think of you as the Father of our little neck of the jungle.kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-57397332651928387302011-04-20T02:27:13.628-07:002011-04-20T02:27:13.628-07:00If E.T. was not a Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syri...If E.T. was not a Philippine Tarsier (Tarsius syrichta), I'm George Washington.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com