Pleasure
Posted on September 23, 2007
Filed Under Personal, River Notes |
Over the last few months I have been increasingly open to the ordinary pleasures of the world. I’ve always been something of an over-planner, a bit of a control-freak. In my fifties I am perhaps loosening up a little bit. I’ve always had an appreciation for the beauties of the natural world, but lately I seem to be taking the world right inside myself. Or at least our little part of it on the Racquette River. Carole & I have been together a long time & we have learned each other’s ways; lately, I have taken great pleasure in just relaxing with her out on the deck or over the dining table, at ease with each other. All this in the midst of the country as a whole drifting into authoritarianism, with a sectarian minority of radical fundamentalists & Ayn Rand cultists in control of the discourse. I feel desperately lucky to live inside what must be a parenthesis.
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Stumble it!
THE SON
A pure day that modesty that
sober beauty like a hold thing
never fails to arouse me
because there at the center
of so much grace and calm
tiny frantic ants always
rushing hither and yon
the hidden parts
won’t let go
but must search and search
against the coming cold as hell
the coming wars and fevers
the slowly arriving days
of death the savior.