WHAT CAN POETS DO?
“I dwell in Possibility--/a fairer House than Prose--/...”
wrote Emily Dickinson in 1862. In 2014
we are a challenged people clinging to a threatened planet. What Dickinson evokes so well
is the power of the poet to envision, to create a realm beyond the day at hand
into which we might travel. All forms of artistic expression are our great—and
perhaps only—hope, as we circle our modest sun on a small orb we call home, so
full of beauty and cruelty it makes the head spin. What can poets do? Dickinson again: “Tell
all the Truth but tell it slant—/..”
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Namaste. Waterloo, NY,
January 14, 2014