TC: The Greeks

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Scarlet cloud: photo by JarNondo, 1 January 2007

Deep in the air the past appears

As unreal as air to the boy

Or the apple of the world

To a girl whose eyes are pale and mild

Her hair is probably not real gold

Only a good imitation of the Greeks’

Like a map of that world of early days

Where woman lives on a scarlet cloud

While man in colorless blunt noon

Splashes up at the blue variables

That pass by on an airplane of words

Into the sky which distributes gifts of

Rain and light over our lives equally

Infinite gifts we are unable to behold

Sky: photo by Cristina Bozzoli, 2008 

 

This post dedicated to the eminent Greek scholars Isaac and Oliver

TC: Robert Creeley: After Lorca

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Malaguilla, Provincia de Guadalajara, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain: photo by Häkan Svensson, 2004

for M. Marti

The church is a business, and the rich
are the business men.

........................................... When they pull on the bells, the

poor come piling in and when a poor man dies, he has a wooden
cross, and they rush through the ceremony.

But when a rich man dies, they
drag out the Sacrament
and a golden Cross, and go doucement, doucement
to the cemetery.

And the poor love it
and think it's crazy.

Olivar en Alcalá la Real, Jaén, España: photo by Michelangelo-36, 2005

Robert Creeley: After Lorca, 1952