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

[William L Houts]

That's exactly right, Brigit, and I had thought that nobody would get 
it.  As a former Gnostic, I've given  a lot of thought to the Sophia, 
and we named the dog after her.  Even though, sadly, she wasn't very 
wise and liked to chase garbage trucks.





--Bill




On 7/12/2015 2:33 PM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter via stylist wrote:
> Is Sophie a reference to wisdom?
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> 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?
>   
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> Jackie Lee
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> 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.
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> --Bill
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> *The Relevance of Thunder
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> Hearing hells of thunder, like
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> our yellow sun's protest:kicking feet, gagged
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> with planets, and bound with the darkest dark matter,
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> kidnapped and shipped off for feeding
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> to that blackest of maws,the murderous drain star,
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> the galaxy's axis and ultimate end:
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> the massive mad throatat star spiral's core.
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> The notion brings ice to our short-designed spines,
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> and yet there's a thrill of myth in it:
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> the grief in Goya's grim father,
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> the Tartarus shock in his eyes: misaligned, mad
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> as he his own offspring consumes; reversing their birth,
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> O nature obscened in this wrath backwards dined.
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> Devour, devour:mouth who preys, mouth which takes in,
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> unconscious,thoselamps of space, a solar feast,
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> And so we greet the thunder's toll
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> one part of shudder, one of glee combined:
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> cosmic hole and horror's throne dismissed,
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> our hostage sun released.
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"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"