tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1489176143015940916..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: George Mattingly: DrivingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-26955809681295537762011-03-06T09:44:40.619-08:002011-03-06T09:44:40.619-08:00For those who might not have known, in addition to...For those who might not have known, in addition to being an excellent poet, George is a genius designer; he and his wife Lucy do <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Blue-Wind-Press/108251222551104" rel="nofollow">Blue Wind Press</a>.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-933619583168809132011-03-06T08:33:03.915-08:002011-03-06T08:33:03.915-08:00Tom and All,
The Tule Elk will be in out there in...Tom and All,<br /><br />The Tule Elk will be in out there in the fog/rain today, along w/ everything else this morning - - -<br /><br /><br />3.6<br /><br />grey white rain cloud against invisible<br />ridge, silver of drop falling from leaf<br />in foreground, sound of wave in channel<br /><br /> this distant echo of effect,<br /> “inverted perspective”<br /><br /> painted, picture of surface<br /> visual, tilt of plane<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />shadowed canyon of ridge across from itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-87954020928046493042011-03-06T06:05:14.715-08:002011-03-06T06:05:14.715-08:00Tom,
Maybe more about that thought will come the ...Tom,<br /><br />Maybe more about that thought will come the next time there's "just a second/ for life/ to straighten/ and pass" but those moments seem decades apart for some of us non-Tule-Elk spirits. Still I was only toward Stinson once. <br /><br />Here they have "Hamanassett" and I hope to visit Jane Kenyon's graveVINCENT FARNSWORTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840705566779483677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-9114050311264869652011-03-05T19:31:38.011-08:002011-03-05T19:31:38.011-08:00It has been very enjoyable today running around wi...It has been very enjoyable today running around with George Mattingly's poem and these images in my head, running them over and over during the day. Unlike others who have commented, I'm unfamiliar with Mattingly's poetry and would very probably have responded differently to it if I hadn't encountered it on Beyond The Pale. The elks, the words and Steve's poem (really wonderful) are all important to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-5261467705888636762011-03-05T18:02:52.981-08:002011-03-05T18:02:52.981-08:00Vincent,
I definitely think you're on to some...Vincent,<br /><br />I definitely think you're on to something, with that thought.<br /><br />(By the by, George reports the Tule Elk are appropriate, as the driving was up in that direction -- toward Stinson, to be precise.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51551935283634615652011-03-05T10:50:09.540-08:002011-03-05T10:50:09.540-08:00that's the atmosphere I saw this morning with ...that's the atmosphere I saw this morning with the thought "the end of the world happened before we were born"VINCENT FARNSWORTHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09840705566779483677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-74501945295117946282011-03-05T09:11:52.390-08:002011-03-05T09:11:52.390-08:00Thank you Steve and Mike, Praise be the Tule Elk a...Thank you Steve and Mike, Praise be the Tule Elk and Praise be George... and not forgetting the Paradox Purpose persuasion purple ceanothus, surely the most lovely strain of that ubiquitous flower.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-19847301990529929292011-03-05T08:11:37.116-08:002011-03-05T08:11:37.116-08:00What a pleasure to see Mattingly among your many s...What a pleasure to see Mattingly among your many splendid and generous nods to other poets Tom. Thanks.Lallyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310472614196384595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29977319029041618572011-03-05T07:26:31.337-08:002011-03-05T07:26:31.337-08:00Tom,
Johnny & I took that hike out the Pierce...Tom,<br /><br />Johnny & I took that hike out the Pierce Point Trail last year, and there they were -- those Tule Elk, not in fog that day but bright windy blue, "just a second/ for life/ to straighten/ and pass". . . .<br /><br />3.5<br /><br />first grey light in sky above blackness<br />of ridge, silver of planet next to leaf<br />in foreground, wave sounding in channel<br /><br /> in brackets, interchange in<br /> which the second kind<br /><br /> of motion, this in addition <br /> to physical fact, etc.<br /><br />silver of sunlight reflected in channel,<br />shadowed green slope of ridge across itSTEPHEN RATCLIFFEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12339481653546188412noreply@blogger.com