[lit-ideas] Re: Another Sunday Poem
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 10:50:31 -0800
Yes, it's rather precipitous to judge a poet from a single poem; although
I've posted others in the past . . . but in explanation,
PIVOTAL PERSPECTIVES
I drove in my last piton,
Hanging down six hundred
Feet above the canyon floor
(Falling would take a long time).
My sweaty fingers shook
As I strung my line anew
And swung to the new location.
At some point words will
Fail and I'll fall flailing
And protesting down
Toward the long standing
Rubble with consternation,
But for now I retrieve
The previous and
Set it firmly on the
Edge, screwing it in
And seeing the way
Up even if I have
To merely climb the rest
Instead of setting one
More piton half way
Beyond what I will need,
Freeing my mind to
Contemplate the edge
From a new perspective
As though I had arrived
At new understanding rather
Than a place I must climb down from.
Lawrence
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From: lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Mike Geary
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 10:31 AM
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Another Sunday Poem
Wow, Lawrence. JK misreads you. Someone wrote me offlist to ask when you
had become human : ) a little liberal humor there. Nice poem. Reminds
me of the Amadou Diallo shoot down. Nicely handled.
Mike Geary
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