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Tue Jan-27-09 07:56 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 1/27/2009) |
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Railroad Tracks in Snow Walking north from Brattleboro along the tracks I feel my footprints texture the bleached landscape the way gossip textures the mind. Though I lack the inspiration, I'd like to exult over the clash of steel etched in snow and the valley's slur of vapor, but there's no clash, no suffering, only the surface
of the river marbled with ice and the sour brick rears of buildings on Main Street and the crisp railroad curving out of sight among black stalky bushes and saplings. Uninspired, I can't effect the force to visualize the flow of mountains as slow analog to the flow of the frozen river.
Nor can I explain how candid the railroad looks as it rips along the seam between the town and the river. Its innocence is that of a human gesture that has somehow entered nature with all its function intact: its unsubtle geometry a process instead of a fact.
William Doreski
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Tue Jan-27-09 08:01 AM
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Tue Jan-27-09 12:04 PM
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Love that last stanza. I don't think he was "uninspired" at all. :hi:
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Tue Jan-27-09 06:21 PM
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Tue Jan-27-09 12:08 PM
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I can't even say why this is so good...
But it sure is.
Just beautiful...
Thank you.
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