this hedge i raise against my fellows
and i tend it.
this palisade against my friends
and (where it fails) i mend it.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
HEDGEWOOD
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honest betrayal before treacherous loyalty
BEHIND THE HEDGE
this blog is intended as an irregular journal of the trivia which, alongside his real work, incite the author to commit poetry. with some luck now and then, he perpetrates something less than trivial. it should be stated that (as in all works of fiction) where a conflict has arisen between prosody and journalism, it will be the prosody which will have prevailed, the true over the accurate, the word over the thing.
the ÜBUNGEN are quasi-musical exercises in form and metre, and the LATE QUATRAINS transcriptions of (invariably late) text-messages composed spontaneously at the phone's keypad and sent to tolerant friends.
[the banner photo, by the author, is of an outbuilding - and tree - on the farm 'elandsheuwel' between willowmore and steytlerville in the karoo.]
the ÜBUNGEN are quasi-musical exercises in form and metre, and the LATE QUATRAINS transcriptions of (invariably late) text-messages composed spontaneously at the phone's keypad and sent to tolerant friends.
[the banner photo, by the author, is of an outbuilding - and tree - on the farm 'elandsheuwel' between willowmore and steytlerville in the karoo.]
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- AND FROM THE WEST
- UNDERFOOTING LEYTONSTONE
- exercise 2.5.6: mirrorman
- THREE IMPOSSIBLE TRUTHS
- MY LOVE IS TRYING
- COMING HOME (for jpb)
- exercise 2.5.6: anna
- HEDGEWOOD
- THE HOURGLASS OF GEOLOGY, LIKE THE LINE OF SIGHT
- LATE DOG, GOD, ET AL.
- NIGHTHYMN
- exercise 2t.4/1.3: elegaic
- HE IS A LION OF THE SUBURBS
- exercise 2.5.4: starling
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and what of your enemies?
ReplyDeleteone is more vulnerable to friends and fellows, hence this priority and precaution.
ReplyDeleteA faithful friend is a strong defense and he that hath found such an one hath found a treasure.. (faithful, regardless of how tall those palisades are, or how many times you mend it)
ReplyDeleteHello Rob
ReplyDeleteI like your tight, economic style of writing very much. Your poems are lean and efficient and they all have something worth while to say.
"Hedgewood" touches upon important psychological principles - maintaining one's psyche within the maelstrom of humanity around one.
Greetings
De Waal
Excellent pithy truth, Robert.
ReplyDeleteLike it very much.