tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post3634925630373003175..comments2024-03-14T04:06:54.124-04:00Comments on GENKAKU-AGAIN (adam fisher): straight linesgenkakuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12135705172119950326noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-52953732244612923472013-02-15T09:22:00.019-05:002013-02-15T09:22:00.019-05:00RIVERS/ROADS
Michael Crummey, from Arguments With ...RIVERS/ROADS<br />Michael Crummey, from Arguments With Gravity. Kingston, Ont.: Quarry Press, 1996.<br /><br />I thought I was following a track of freedom and for awhile it was. Adrienne Rich <br /><br />Consider the earnestness of pavement<br />its dark elegant sheen after rain,<br />its insistence on leading you somewhere<br /><br />A highway wants to own the landscape, <br />it sections prairie into neat squares<br />swallows mile after mile of countryside<br />to connect the dots of cities and towns,<br />to make sense of things<br /><br />A river is less opinionated<br />less predictable <br />it never argues with gravity <br />its history is a series of delicate negotiations with<br />time and geography<br /><br />Wet your feet all you want<br />Hericlitus says,<br />it's never the river you remember;<br />a road repeats itself incessantly<br />obsessed with its own small truth,<br /> it wants you to believe in something particular<br /><br />The destination you have in mind when you set out<br />is nowhere you have ever been;<br />where you arrive finally depends on <br />how you get there,<br />by river or by road<br />Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09136868498956040359noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904219782540965444.post-12775943010923620462013-02-14T11:26:35.666-05:002013-02-14T11:26:35.666-05:00I am reminded of Alan Watt's " lawn order...I am reminded of Alan Watt's " lawn order "...<br />His term for attempting to impose neatness on rampant life.PeterBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06534121168726658880noreply@blogger.com