January 1, 2025 9:03 pm

Meeting Bench

FROM A NOTEBOOK: Poetry, by James Merrill

FROM A NOTEBOOK The whiteness near and far. The cold, the hush. A first word stops the blizzard, steps out into fresh candor. You ask no more. Each never taken stride leads onward, though in circles ever smaller, smaller. The vertigo upholds you. And now to glide, across the frozen pond, steelshod, to chase its dreamless oval, with loop and …

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PAOLO VERONESE (1528/1588), ITALIAN PAINTER: A painting accurate, with clear and iridescent shades of color

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POETRY IS A BOMB ATTACK CELESTIAL: Poetry, by Vicente Huidobro

POETRY IS A BOMB ATTACK CELESTIAL I’m absent, but the bottom of this there is no expectation of myself, and this expectation is another form of presence, waiting for my return. I live in the other objects, giving a little trip of my life in certain trees and certain stones, which I have waited many years. They are tired of …

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VASILIJ VASILYEVICH KANDINSKY (1866/1944), RUSSIAN PAINTER – The father of abstract art, without distinction between figure and background, giving birth to abstract compositions

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VISITING THE ISLANDS IONIAN: Greece, starting from Corfu

They are many, they are far apart, but well reached by comfortable ferries. The advice is to arrive in the island of Corfu (if you want to visit the northern part of the archipelago), or from Kefalonia, to the southern islands. You find – even now – many tourists, but also many fishing villages and many beaches. If you want …

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GIORGIO VASARI (1511/1574), ITALIAN PAINTER: Shades of mannerism of Raphael and Michelangelo, in the streets of Florence and Arezzo

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I WANT TO GO BACK: Poetry, by Takuboku Ishikawa

I WANT TO GO BACK I want to go back the ancient sweetness crying alone. So I said to her not to separate us. (Takuboku Ishikawa) http://www.amazon.com/Knowing-Oneself-Too-Well-Selected/dp/061534562X/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

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DREAMS: Poetry, by Fay Zwicky

DREAMS As he slept badly, he woke with anger for wanting to redo the loss. Loss of what? He was not sure. At his age, hardly love, perhaps a spasm. A narrow dense core, no more, He assured himself, breathing on his own in the dark. Why then he watched the door as if someone had come, and then walked …

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UMBERTO BOCCIONI (1882/1916), ITALIAN PAINTER: Movement of the forms and substance of the matter, shades of futurism painting

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TIMELESS BOOKS: Moby Dick, by Herman Melville

  This epic story, the journey of Captain Ahab in pursuit of Moby Dick (a big white whale), has accompanied generations of readers – children and adults – for over a century and a half. Regarded as one of the great American novels, its beginning is truly one of the most recognizable of all Western literature, with its extremely realistic …

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