Feb 12, 2024
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one of my favorites by him is titled “More Than Sixty”
Out of money, so I’m sitting in the shade
of my farmhouse cleaning the lentils
I found in the back of my cupboard.
Listening to the cicada in the fig tree
mix with the cooing doves on the roof.
I look up when I hear a goat hurt far down
the valley and discover the sea
exactly the same blue I used to paint it
with my watercolors as a child.
So what, I think happily. So what!
Feb 12, 2024
gianadda yes!!!! that one is so perfect. he’s such a master. so concise and straight to the heart
gianadda
Also, “The Answer”.
Is the clarity, the simplicity, an arriving
or an emptying out? If the heart persists
in waiting, does it begin to lessen?
If we are always good, does God lose track
of us? When I wake at night, there is
something important there. Like the humming
of giant turbines in the high-ceilinged stations
in the slums. There is a silence in me,
absolute and inconvenient. I am haunted
by the day I walked through the Greek village
where everyone was asleep and somebody began
playing Chopin, slowly, faintly, inside
the upper floor of a plain white stone house.
Feb 12, 2024
