The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 3/3/2007)

[RetroLounge]

Some Clouds

Now that I've unplugged the phone
no one can reach me—
At least for this one afternoon
they will have to get by without my advice or opinion.
Now nobody else is going to call
& ask in a tentative voice
if I haven't yet heard that she's dead,
that woman I once loved—
nothing but ashes scattered over a city
that barely itself any longer exists.
Yes, thank you, I've heard.
It had been too lovely a morning.
That in itself should have warned me.
The sun lit up the tangerines
& the blazing poinsettias
like so many candles.
For one afternoon they will have to forgive me.
I am busy watching things happen again
that happened a long time ago,
as I lean back in Josephine's lawn chair
under a sky of incredible blue,
broken—if that is the word for it—
by a few billowing clouds,
all white & unspeakably lovely,
drifting out of one nothingness into another.

Steve Kowit

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Retro.........

How unbelievably heartbreaking, and lovely this is......

You understand how well I can identify with this one, too..........

It's scary to contemplate, isn't it?

I can really feel the truth of it, especially here:

...I am busy watching things happen again
that happened a long time ago...

Thank you........:hug:

:cry:

[Ms_Dem_Meanor]

2. Maya Angelou or Nikki Giovanni please. n/t

[wildhorses]

3. drifting out of one nothingness into another.

i want to do that...