tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6299197427204672108..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: In a Military EncampmentUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42291541154864168892011-07-16T07:22:27.148-07:002011-07-16T07:22:27.148-07:00AW< MAN!
so I am Knee deep (at least) into my...AW< MAN!<br /><br />so I am Knee deep (at least) into my newest .... long-poem AND was just looking into a name for "her"<br /><br />so<br />between Plato AND Holderlin and a German 1920-something film that I just saw <br /><br />I GOT it ! "Her" pinned down..<br /><br />Plato's concubine : Diotima (who teaches "the philosophy of love" ? DIOTIMA!<br /><br />Love being EROS being the son of "resource & need"<br /><br />(or as Plato and Holderlin, et al 'have it" as I (continuously "use 'it/her'"<br /> ; an incredible<br />want desire is !<br /> -and the Letters that follow!<br /><br />these "goddesses" that Plato wrote about WERE REAL PEOPLE!<br /> &<br /><br />after first-time-sex with a Goddess everything that follows is literature: no bout a doubt it !<br /><br />now to find my copy of Hyperion it s a paper-back with a black-ish cover...<br /><br />thanks... this-all that you are doing has "Goosed" me...Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-48991790398493825482011-07-16T06:29:43.636-07:002011-07-16T06:29:43.636-07:00Tom,
"Who is she? This Helen? This Sonia, or...Tom,<br /><br />"Who is she? This Helen? This Sonia, or Sophia -- . . ."<br /><br />7.16 <br /><br />grey whiteness of fog against invisible<br />ridge, song sparrow calling sweet sweet<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> picture something, position<br /> “measurement of space”<br /><br /> man-made, pigmented surface,<br /> vision of what is not<br /><br />blue line of sky in clouds above point,<br />cormorant flapping across toward ridgeSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com