[Stylist] Abraxas' intro and poem

[Abraxas Ardent]

HI Helen,


Thanks for the warm reception, and for the heads up.  I thought I had 
weeded out my typos, but I clearly need to fire up my spellchecker again.



--Brax






On 12/5/2018 5:46 AM, Helen Kobek via Stylist wrote:
> Welcome back! And thank you for sharing your lovely poem!
>
> If you are looking to submit it somewhere -and it'd be a fantastic submission! - you might check out the typos...?
>
> 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>
>> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
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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>
>> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
>> 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)
>>
>> Abraxas Ardent  copyright 2018
>> United States of America
>> All Rights Reserved
>>
>> 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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"A crack in the teacup opens a lane to the land of the dead." --Auden