Poetry? Como é?1
Louise Kneuper’s Catholic prayers?
“Hail Mary, … full of grace,
… the Lord is with thee.”
A Jimmie Rodgers song?
“Rather drink muddy water
And sleep in a hollow log
Than to be in Atlanta
Treated like a dirty dog.”2
E.O.Wilson and consilience?
“We are not predestined to reach any goal,
Nor are we answerable to any power but our own.”3
¿El linguaje español?
“Adiós, Oh Virgen de Guadalupe,
Adiós, oh madre del Salvador, …”
A ballerina dance? An Esther Williams swim?
Clyde Glossen’s smoothly-sailed 100-yard streak?
An Inez Perez loft to Jerry Levias?4
(Timothy Morton’s rocking??)
Sunset on Pine Ridge Res in the Badlands?
?ópe?a! ?ópe?a!! ?ópe?a!!!
Papilionids dancing beautifully from pawpaw to pawpaw?
Lovely maroons and zebras in the morning sun?
Borboleta! Borboleta! Venha borboleta.
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Sim! São todos poesia! E mais!
Maybe literary art. Maybe rocking metaphorically.
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“Poets and dreamers, the only true realists,
knowing that the gift is the ultimate mystery,
knowing a gift not in motion is powerless,
knowing no gift can be taken for profiting,
knowing no gift can be subject to ownership.”5
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“Just one thing is clear to me.
There’s always more than what appears to be.
When the light’s just right I swear I see …
Man, it’s poetry.”6
E isto? (And this???)
pbm 3/6/19
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1 The words other than English are mostly Brazilian Portuguese.
2 Blue Yodel.
3 The Meaning of Human Existence. 2014.
4 Good to great Texas athletes of the 1960s.
5 Mining the Motherlode. Andy Wilkinson. 2002.
6 Poetry. Walt Wilkins & Davis Raines.