by phillipw | Jan 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Seance from Vellum “When we listen to the verse phrases and whole poems that have made that hard journey through time, space and language, … we are enthralled as much by what we cannot know as by what we hear.” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets We...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2020 | LO, RI, VE
La Danse Interminable Et vous, les loups maigres ~ Romances sans paroles, Verlaine The moon is closed inside a copper shell, A casing of your manufacture, lad. Although my destiny’s a minor hell Compared to others’ sufferings, it’s sad Enough for me. The landscape...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2020 | GR
Murmurs/Purling [“Lo! I divine through murmurs borne The subtle thread of voices old” ~ Paul Verlaine, “Je divine, a travers un murmure” in Romances sans Paroles] Just broken murmurs...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2020 | RI, VE
Revenez, Revenez, Chers Amis Come back to us, Verlaine, Rimbaud! We need You at this hour. We need you so that you Can edify us, show us not to breed False freedoms. None of us wants Xanadu Heaved up by license, anger or your faux Amour. We do not want your...
by phillipw | Jan 20, 2020 | RI, VE
July the Fourth, 1873 Rimbaud recalls his older man to crawl To Arthur’s bed in Camden and return To more abuse and weak man’s pain, but Paul Refuses. He has had enough to burn His heart forever and to brand it with Hard scars to last for an eternity And so he...
