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Ezra Pound’s Poem, “The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter”
Ezra Pound wrote this poem in 1915 (which he described as “after Rihaku”): While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, death, ezra pound, fall, flowers, Japan, life, loss, marriage, monkeys, poetry, rivers
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Poem for a Weekend: Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish”
I caught a tremendous fish and held him beside the boat half out of water, with my hook fast in a corner of his mouth. He didn’t fight. He hadn’t fought at all. He hung a grunting weight, battered and … Continue reading
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“Deliverance”: A Poem by Santi Tafarella
bobbing like a jug a naked body in the river and on its back a crow before men were here there were rivers and the round eyes of birds
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Tagged art, birds, death, environmentalism, literature, pagan, poem, poetry, rivers, Santi Tafarella, writing
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