tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post6480341818240691225..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Blown AwayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-67223387176001271012014-03-19T15:28:40.299-07:002014-03-19T15:28:40.299-07:00Yes, that was the sense of it.Yes, that was the sense of it.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31416346511857559382014-03-19T14:10:38.953-07:002014-03-19T14:10:38.953-07:00The last two lines catch a very quiet vulnerabilit...The last two lines catch a very quiet vulnerability.<br /><br />All of us flotsam - so very small.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-73356677507557396242014-03-17T08:39:11.279-07:002014-03-17T08:39:11.279-07:00Thanks, Manik.
Yes, the intrinsic instability of...Thanks, Manik. <br /><br />Yes, the intrinsic instability of all presumed technological certainties never appears so clearly as when a catastrophic event draws the mysterious, blinding, bewildering light of truth down from the heavens, or up from the depths of the oceans.<br /><br />The truth that the ship is on a wrong course, I mean.<br /><br />But plainly the massive accumulating catastrophe of technological civilization is a much larger theme which could not be addressed in so minimal (and indeed personal) a notation, scribbled semi-legibly on a scrap of paper in mid o'night.<br /><br />"Tossed cloudward" does perhaps encapsulate the giddy, free-floating feeling of losing the use of one's body for locomotion.<br /><br />Alas the complement to that feeling is the sense of being a dead, leaden weight upon the earth -- even less poetic, and not (yet) to be addressed in nocturnal scribblings, mercifully for the patient readership here.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-56817547662591174442014-03-17T00:40:42.893-07:002014-03-17T00:40:42.893-07:00Tom,
The 'Blown Away' theme here,much like...Tom,<br />The 'Blown Away' theme here,much like a lot of other things involving air and flight(of sorts) has been on everyone's mind i guess..<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/17/mh370-contact-missing-plane-communications-disabled" rel="nofollow">I can't remember an oddity so thick-in recent times..</a> ..I love "tossed cloudward" in the poem..Gives my drawing of these words a supernatural height and width..manik sharmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18055072451804840121noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-66024114073899894532014-03-16T13:07:37.967-07:002014-03-16T13:07:37.967-07:00Curtis,
It's a poem about having the earth pu...Curtis,<br /><br />It's a poem about having the earth pulled out from under one, though, in truth, having to do without the faery wings -- those might help for the balance.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-8384280128268299172014-03-16T12:24:48.951-07:002014-03-16T12:24:48.951-07:00That top photo is a wonder of nature and culture. ...That top photo is a wonder of nature and culture. The bottom photo complements it perfectly and the poem with its shifting directions and flow . . . well, blows me away. Jane played Tinkerbell in 5th grade. She looked terrific in the costume and appreciated not being assigned a speaking part. (I know the feeling.) This week is "Hamlet" school essay week at our house and from the sound of things around here, the rest is silence. CurtisACravanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00315707533118640284noreply@blogger.com