[New-Poetry] speaking of no ears

[Rachel Loden]

I lost this poem for decades, recently found it again (by searching for the
first line and the last):


Orpheus in Greenwich Village

What if Orpheus,
confident in the hard-
found mastery,
should go down into Hell?
Out of the clean light down? 
And then, surrounded
by the closing beasts
and readying his lyre,
should notice, suddenly,
they had no ears? 


--Jack Gilbert

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From: new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu
[mailto:new-poetry-bounces at wiz.cath.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Anny Ballardini
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 4:32 AM
To: NewPoetry: Contemporary Poetry News &Views
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] I feel...


I loved the idea of you saying into no ears at all,
and thank you for the extremely excepted for me, 
I am privileged in this most beautiful day of July, finally and momentarily
off _but off, thus not sick but in full health
 
happiest holiday 
Anny