echoes the song of Orpheus
'O death, that makest life
sweet … '
...
No embarrassment in
consider to be evil
performance,
imitation of
...
A masked stands,
spotlit, in the gloom...
studying the secrets of the sea
or the anatomy...
...
Homer and Tolstoy,
have in common,
a virile love of war and
a virile horror of it,
...
his patchwork goblins
they bear witness to close,
dramatically darkened galleries
His sketches of massing birds,
...
Echoes The Song Of Orpheus
echoes the song of Orpheus
'O death, that makest life
sweet … '
founded on the sense of loss
in her absence
would the good things be
its open-endedness
this vignette of a life of peaceful
sit and see'
scramble is over
sense of spatial neatness
as the woodpecker hunts his prey