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Interesting point Caleb. I don't have the answer, or perhaps I don't have the skill set and fear creating caricatures.

Cheers John

Have you posted a version of this before John? It feels familiar.

Thanks Caleb.

Fahrenheit, Not Celsius (version 2) But as I settled into the soothing warmth, I could only think of the homeless woman I walked past forty years ago at midnight in New York City, on my way to the subway from a second-shift job. She slept in the window of the modern church beneath the Citicorp Cent...

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Love that notion of the shyness of the dead John.

Traveler I want to tell you where we live,..................why? but we’re not there, we’re on the move. The journey is rebarbative :....nicely weighted perhaps a pillow could improve... :D your ride a little? It is far, from there to here , home to away.....just a thought We’re hitched now to a wa...

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Sat Mar 30, 2024 4:04 am

Take a walk on the outer walls
of that old city.
It’s Winter, getting dark,and the faces
of gargoyles are harried;

the ache of the day is still in them,
and they are still missing their pills.

I wondered if you could suggest more about the inner state by tinkering with the perception?

Congratulations John. the ideal penetrates the real! Fab sculpture.

Sorry to hear that Caleb.

Not surprisingly, his academic background was philosophy. I agree with you on the tangent. I didn't know about the 'Blue Shirts'. The context of 1930's saw Auden lean left. Of course, older poets often lean to the right. Perhaps Shelley would have become like Wordsworth. Nah :D He would have worn pa...