The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 1/15/2007)

[RetroLounge]

At the Other Chapel

Was this what Michelangelo meant, why he left
the few blue empty inches
between God's outstretched arm and Adam's hand?
Not the raised arm taking leave
of its creation, but the arm's refusal
to reach, to touch, the endless withholding?
Did the painter see his rosy, firm-fleshed
innocent doomed to awaken from his dream,
find time invented, the animals
quite happy without their names?
                        Sometimes the idea
is the measure of all things. We say
Light, say Love, call God the name
unnamable. Wanting even a spider's
web across that unspanned blue.
Sometimes the absence of God is God enough.

Nadya Aisenberg


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RL

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[wildhorses]

1. Sometimes the absence of God is God enough.

dude, now that there is some HEAVY shit!!!

I LOVE IT:loveya:

i think this may be my most favorite poem yet:shrug:


does she have more....do you rotate some poets?


thanks, so much for doing this:hug:

[RetroLounge]

3. First I've heard of her...

She died in 1999.

http://www.thedrunkenboat.com/aisenberg.htm

RL

[wildhorses]

4. thanks for the link-- i am going there now

so sorry to hear that she is gone :sad:

[cwydro]

2. Interesting.