Snippets from Tranströmer (Tranströmer)

Deep in the forest there's an unexpected clearing that can be reached only by someone who has lost his way.

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I'm surrounded by written signs I can't interpret. I'm totally illiterate.
But I've paid what I should and I have receipts for everything.
I've accumulated so many illegible receipts.

Tomas Tranströmer, from The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

But now (Murdoch)

There had been a drama, there had been some characters, but now everyone else was dead and only in me a memory remained of what had been.

Iris Murdoch, from A Severed Head

Cherry crepes

More poems

I've added 6 new poems.

On tolerance

Functional tolerance is reciprocal.

Cheddar potato soup

Poems

I've posted 7 new poems.

Extremes

Extremes are conducive to change, irrespective of any other qualities.

A taste of a possible future

The blog is back from its anti-SOPA blackout!

Small bites

I have posted 6 new short poems—the first of the year!

On experience

It is the clarity, not the rarity, of experience that sets its reward.

Could explain a lot...

What if afterlife were a series of successive replays of life? How soon what was originally undertaken with pleasure and profit would deaden and dull to a purgatorial trap! What was once free, now restricted and determined and inescapable.

Full moon rising

Chicken & dumplings

From this recipe.

Impossible

The things we imagine about one another make it impossible for us to know one another.

Cerdo con Limón

From the new cookbook I got for Christmas.

What is the world?

For some, the world is a mirror, constantly consulted.  For others, a magical harvest waiting to be scythed.  How few see themselves as an extension of the world, or vice versa!

Three and a half years ago, I made a Wordle cloud of the most common words in my poems:



Today, I did it again, with all the newer poems added in, thinking it would be interesting to see what if any changes have occurred:



I'm not sure if it's interesting or not.

Quick 2011 Summation

Books Read:  70
Poems Written:  154

Least books read since 2004. This is no doubt due to having played two MMOs this year, and to not having had access to the New York library this summer.

New poems from the old year

I have posted 9 new poems. That's the last of 2011's work!