Sunday, July 17, 2022

BW29: Fall of the Evening Star

 

Constellations by Maggie Vandewalle

Happy Sunday!  I bookmark things on my computer, buy cards with unique sayings, add books to my wishlist and I'll come across them later and wonder what was I thinking.  What struck me at the time and why did I save it?  This poem is one of those saved and forgotten.  I was going through bookmarks, deleting those I don't use anymore and found it. Don't know when I bookmarked it, but I'm glad I found it again. Love the imagery.  Reminds me of reading and rereading stories and getting something completely different out of them versus the first time.  Sigh! So lovely.


Fall of the Evening Star

By

Kenneth Patchen


Speak softly; sun going down

Out of sight. Come near me now.


Dear dying fall of wings as birds

complain against the gathering dark...


Exaggerate the green blood in grass;

the music of leaves scraping space;


Multiply the stillness by one sound;

by one syllable of your name...


And all that is little is soon giant,

all that is rare grows in common beauty


To rest with my mouth on your mouth

as somewhere a star falls


And the earth takes it softly, in natural love...

Exactly as we take each other...

and go to sleep...


All this to say, revisit an old friend by rereading a favorite author or book and enjoy discovering them all over again. 

Our letter and word of the week are X and Xiphoid.

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