[lit-ideas] Re: Destinations
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 13:12:48 +0900
Lawrence,
Thanks. Very interesting. I find myself pondering something along the lines
of, "where we saw the ghost lights float above the West Texas plain." Not
claiming that this is poetry but now I have a picture in my mind instead of
two words with no obvious connection.
John
On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> I did pause over the lights but they are somewhat famous:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfa_lights
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> Lawrence
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> *From:* lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
> lit-ideas-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *John McCreery
> *Sent:* Sunday, December 21, 2014 6:22 PM
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> Lawrence,
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> Tight is good. And this poem speaks to me. I have often traveled for
> business or pleasure on my own, feeling a bit guilty that Ruth wasn't
> coming with me. The one point where I could use more detail is at the end.
> "Marfa" stirs no associations in me, so the lights in question elicit only
> the thought, "Oh, it must be some place with famous lights. . . or lights
> with a special significance to Lawrence and Susan. . ."
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> Best wishes,
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> John
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> On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Lawrence Helm <
> lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Not that disruption was abnormal,
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> One product line would end, the
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> DC and KC-10 for example,
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> While another would gain
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> Momentum. I was a Program
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> Engineer and scheduled to go
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> On the delivery of the last
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> Two DC-10s, one to Lagos
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> And the other to Karachi
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> With a side trip to Katmandu.
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> Susan meanwhile wanted to see
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> Her sister. "Katmandu," they
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> Said with envy. "And you
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> Won't have to pay a thing."
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> That wouldn't have been the case.
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> I didn't have a car that would get
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> Her to Texas and she wouldn't
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> Go there on the back of my bike;
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> So I bought a small Toyota
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> And drove her to Marfa
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> Where we saw the lights.
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> Omar wrote earlier, "I was of course joking when I asked if that poem was
> by Ted Hughes - it really seemed pretty good to me. Better than magazines?
> I wouldn't know, I rarely read magazines, although I was an English lit
> major."
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> And John wrote, "I am no judge of poetry, to call it good or bad. But what
> you are writing is meaningful and memorable. It speaks to my fear that Ruth
> might start slipping away before me, and that you are still writing poetry
> at the age of 81, which makes you ten years my senior, is hugely
> encouraging."
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> Omar. I knew you were joking. J John, I can go on posting but I'm
> sometimes reluctant to post individual poems, the subject one for example,
> written today. The subject matter didn't allow me the freedom to introduce
> any imagery and the lines aren't as melodious as I would like. So I
> settled for making it as tight as possible.
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> Lawrence
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