[New-Poetry] emailing Mary Oliver

[Anny Ballardini]

but you do like Franz Marc, :-)

On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Bob Grumman <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>wrote:

> Anny Ballardini wrote:
>
>> This is exceptional writing:
>>
>> At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled
>> after a night of rain.
>> I dip my cupped hands. I drink
>> a long time. It tastes
>> like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold
>> into my body, waking the bones. I hear them
>> deep inside me, whispering
>> oh what is that beautiful thing
>> that just happened?
>>
> Sorry, Anny, but somebody's gotta be Mr. Negative around here.
> I think James Wright did this sort of thing wonderfully well at times
> but that this is a weak imitation of what he did then.  Maybe
> it's because what my bones say is rarely pleasant.
> --Bob
>
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