tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post5929055928167287826..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Josephine Miles: The SympathizersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77076741491311559542014-04-12T13:35:37.200-07:002014-04-12T13:35:37.200-07:00Heart-breaking. No glasses can keep you from seei...Heart-breaking. No glasses can keep you from seeing it. Nin Andrewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643167108589844026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-59596042454094431422014-04-12T06:20:53.053-07:002014-04-12T06:20:53.053-07:00Colin,
Thanks for that swell Joe Ceravolo poem --...Colin,<br /><br />Thanks for that swell Joe Ceravolo poem -- a lingering memory of yesterday's...TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-20581765627334514002014-04-12T04:53:41.233-07:002014-04-12T04:53:41.233-07:00From 'Millenium Dust'
PERPETUAL LIFE
The ...From 'Millenium Dust'<br /><br />PERPETUAL LIFE<br />The sun disappears behind hills,<br />a white light still remains.<br />No pink or red or orange<br />with tight purple streaks, <br /><br />through a white cloud.<br /><br />I suddenly feel<br />we can never be destroyed,<br />but I know otherwise.<br /> It's only a daydream<br /> an overwhelming breeze<br />a constriction that I can't see<br />opening up in the heart<br />on a warm evening.<br /><br />JCDalriadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12004167335881293080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-86570717240800171042014-04-11T14:57:20.135-07:002014-04-11T14:57:20.135-07:00Oh absolutely, a studied refusal. And in this worl...Oh absolutely, a studied refusal. And in this world, it's also necessary to have a nice pair of blinders to block out the visible evidences of misery in every urban milieu. Doesn't Google manufacture those? (The special de luxe Google employee commute buses have darkened windows, naturally.) <br /><br />It's after all a foundational tenet of the global conquering force of the born-this-morning "Millennials": Forget honesty, antiseptic Happyface über alles, a Lambo before I'm 22 or it's the bridge jump. (With lifejacket, of course.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-13920428024019714542014-04-11T14:32:43.619-07:002014-04-11T14:32:43.619-07:00I guess you'd have had to taste something of s...I guess you'd have had to taste something of suffering to come to that kind of honesty.<br /><br />So much cultural production seems driven by the studied refusal of discomfort.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-50545664626515618032014-04-11T11:37:53.317-07:002014-04-11T11:37:53.317-07:00Thanks, WB. And yes certainly, about the photo. No...Thanks, WB. And yes certainly, about the photo. Not of course to imply that the poet, who had a hard time getting around at all, was off to India, or writing about that. More a matter of the universality of the problem, and in particular of the immediate physical prospect, of human suffering. Miles did have considerable knowledge of that. Since the age of two she had been in and out of various difficult circumstances prescribed for her crippling rheumatoid arthritis.<br /><br />The sad fact that the presence of the suffering of others often causes discomfort to those nearby (upon which, WB, I think we've remarked in earlier conversations) certainly underlies that hard, but honest concluding line.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-51017961783579151542014-04-11T11:08:01.515-07:002014-04-11T11:08:01.515-07:00To share, or to beware
This seems to me a great s...To share, or to beware<br /><br />This seems to me a great summation of the ethical demand the photo presents.Mose23https://www.blogger.com/profile/01100756913131511440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-39945926495571005002014-04-11T10:57:17.469-07:002014-04-11T10:57:17.469-07:00Josephine Miles has been here with us before.<a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2012/02/josphine-miles-gypsy.html" rel="nofollow">Josephine Miles has been here with us before.</a>TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.com