On The Hiding Mind
Lord, Lord
artifice, doubt
hesitation, impossibility
inadequacy, incompletion
limitations, mistrust
self-dismissal, the incompletely
knowable, the unsayable
and the unreadable
sounds like a normal day
in the salt mines
rattle those chains
and spin the opposite way
maybe we get somewhere.
© 2010 Rob Schackne
For those of you with a taste for such things (and why not?) here's the link to an intriguing essay by the poet and critic James Longenbach, entitled "Purity, Restraint, Stillness".
ReplyDeleteYou guessed that it's about poetry, right?
Don't lose heart.
Rob
http://poems.com/special_features/prose/essay_longenbach.php