Three of us are quoting Father
Hopkins over breakfast, fresh thoughts
care for, can you? the poet breaking
syntax over his knee, dry sticks
for the fire. What heart heard of,
ghost guessed. Young grief and old
from the old griever. We walk out
into the fall morning and there’s
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Heraclitus on Fire
Thales thought the world was water.Anaximenes said air—or rather aer, which is to saya mist or vapor. On any latespring morning in Miletus, thereit is, aer, hovering where the roaddips […]
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You can believe it on a day like thiswhen haze hangs on the islands and the seasmolders against the sky. Here on the headlands,the long blue swells ease in from […]
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