[stylist] Poem - "The Relevance of Thunder" - Final Draft (Maybe)

Sun Jul 12 21:33:40 UTC 2015

Is Sophie a reference to wisdom?

Bridgit

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Bill,
On reading this again, I picked up on Saturn's dark proclivity with eating
his children with the epigraph you always close your messages with. You
found Sophie and Saturn. Is there meaning in this coincidence?

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartz	 

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Hello, Friends,

Here's my most recent poem.  It's been through the car wash many times, and
for the moment is as spanking new clean as it can be. Finally, its rhymes
work the way they should and I think it makes sense, at last, at
last:  I think so, anyway.  For the present, ha.

As for the painting to which I refer in the poem:  it's Francisco Goya's
painting, "Saturn Devouring His Children".  In the painting, the Roman god
Saturn is shown with the torso of one of his children, a god, depending from
his mouth.  The expression of horror and misery in Saturn's eyes is
nightmarish, unforgettable.

--Bill

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*The Relevance of Thunder

*

**

Hearing hells of thunder, like

our yellow sun's protest:kicking feet, gagged

with planets, and bound with the darkest dark matter,

kidnapped and shipped off for feeding

to that blackest of maws,the murderous drain star,

the galaxy's axis and ultimate end:

the massive mad throatat star spiral's core.

The notion brings ice to our short-designed spines,

and yet there's a thrill of myth in it:

the grief in Goya's grim father,

the Tartarus shock in his eyes: misaligned, mad

as he his own offspring consumes; reversing their birth,

O nature obscened in this wrath backwards dined.

Devour, devour:mouth who preys, mouth which takes in,

unconscious,thoselamps of space, a solar feast,

And so we greet the thunder's toll

one part of shudder, one of glee combined:

cosmic hole and horror's throne dismissed,

our hostage sun released.

-- 

"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"

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