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| yrs truly,1976, Sierra Nevadas [pic by Jay Hosler] |
I woke to the word ravasure
ravaged erasure
surely vengeful
a vasture assured
evasive avail
a raptor avatar
surely avast
vicissitudes of
lava
of revision
Apparently there's a World of Warcraft non-combat pet called ravaseur; I'm quite certain that's not where my ravasure stemmed from. Turns out that the French rêvasseur means daydreamer, & yes, I knew the rêve root.
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| Le Rêve by Édouard Detaille [pic courtesy of Wikimedia Commons] |
Read this poem again, & again, memorize it, Creeley, at his best . . .
kove yrs truly, not sure about la reve, and will likely forget but ruminate on:
ReplyDelete"Now love also
becomes a reward so
remote from me I have
only made it with my mind.
Here is tedium,
despair, a painful
sense of isolation and
whimsical if pompous
self-regard. But that image
is only of the mind’s
vague structure, vague to me
because it is my own."