[Stylist] Abraxas' intro and poem

[Helen Kobek]

Welcome back! And thank you for sharing your lovely poem! 

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Very warmly, 
Helen

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>   1. Introduction (Abraxas Ardent)
>   2. Poem: "Blindness" (Abraxas Ardent)
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> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 10:50:44 -0800
> From: Abraxas Ardent <lukaeon at gmail.com>
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> Greetings All,
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> I've been on Stylist before, enjoyed it mightily but signed off when I 
> was getting behind in my writing.  Happily, I'm back again with a number 
> of poems to share, and a renewed appetite for discussing poetry. 
> Season's greetings to all, and i look forward to reading, writing and 
> discussing new work.
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> --Brax
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> "A crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead." --Auden
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> Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 11:11:08 -0800
> From: Abraxas Ardent <lukaeon at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Stylist] Poem: "Blindness"
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> HI Stylists,
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> I wrote this poem about a week ago, about my process of coming to terms 
> with blindness.  Like most, I'm sure, it's taken me years to get to a 
> place of contentment, even fulfillment, but I'm finally actually there.  
> I've also written a poem about the beginning of the process, about the 
> shocking event of losing my eyesight; I"ll post that soon.
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> --Brax
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> (Poem follows below.)
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> Blindness
> (for Luke Wyatt)
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> Abraxas Ardent  copyright 2018
> United States of America
> All Rights Reserved
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> It's a sizzling fat damnation at first.
>  You stagger your childhood streets, you smash your nose
> on familiar walls,  you trip, you fall an murder God
> in your outraged savage heart. Strangers get it wrong somehow,
> like your blind on purpose, you're being some kind of mad unkind obtuse.
> But after seven years, or ten or twelve, the fires subside, burn out,
> and you find one day that you can ride Bach fugues like a sublime toboggan,
> that familiar voices are hueful as Renoir gardens, and the sheets
> on your bed are sweet as Rainier streams. You suffer still:
> easy text is lost to you like an abducted mother and familiar
> streets can teem with deathful  spites. Not born a superman,
> you grow a cape, you learn arts of patience and abide. And clver tech, too,
> teaches joy: androids sing my email, clarify my thought stream
> and my deeply eared poems,lensed through my heart's purgation, ignite 
> galaxies.
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> "A crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead." --Auden
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