3/10/2023 0 Comments Whisperings and wonderings![]() ![]() The passages of poetry are from Serhiy Zhadan’s A New Orthography, translated by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin. Let’s weave together the vocabulary of death. Like coyote song, it arrives in the night, it makes its music, it settles in my mind and blood, and I hear it as I go through my days, look for it for its dark messages. Auden famously said that, “poetry makes nothing happen: it survives/ In the valley of its making.” It’s an account, though, an act of witness, and I turn to it over and over. This morning, news of continued invasion. Beyond the window, trees outlined by a little moonlight.īut here you stand in front of the pines, Maybe on the bluff beyond the old swing set? The cat leapt up from sleep, trembling. Note: the map across is approximately 5 nautical miles for anyone wondering smile. Coyote, said John, sleepily, and Yes, I hear it, I replied. How to unlock the Sailor of the Whispering Bones achievement in Sea of. So a single coyote singing a brief and beautiful song-a keening howl followed by a series of yips. Whispers From The Rice Fields: Wanderings & Wonderings From Bali (Paperback). Maybe they’re wondering, What’s the point, with some development happening over on Sakinaw Lake Road, encroaching on the woods there that become our woods a little further north, with the noise of the excavators clearing and preparing ground for a huge telecommunications tower at the gateway to Ruby Lake, courtesy of the resort owners (they call themselves dedicated environmentalists). Maybe the pair we hear most years has become too old to mate. We didn’t hear the courtship this year, which made me wonder. ![]() And what was that? A single coyote, quite near. Rather than going downstairs in the dark to sit in front of this screen, doom-scrolling, I listened. I woke just before 2 a.m., wondering about Ukraine. ![]()
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