[New-Poetry] Wormser's pet subject

[Anny Ballardini]

I wrote back to Hal with a sign of appreciation. By rereading this poem, the
first part has the magic of dream, a certain visual tension that keeps me
almost from breathing, then there is the twist somewhere, and I do not know
how to define the second part, but something broke down, as all beautiful
things, it had to end somewhere.

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 10:04 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:

> Hal sent this poem around. I wanted to check it out to see if it was again
> one about writing.
> Started out not to be...but lapsed in the end.
> Finnegan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com>
> To: Johnson, Halvard <halvard at gmail.com>
> Sent: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 11:07 am
> Subject: Poems by others: Baron Wormser, "Letter from New England"
>
> Letter from New England
>
> "Poor deity," murmured one of the mourners, "ever shuffling
> And dealing from the same pack of cards." It was
> One of those typical midwinter days,
> A mirthless sun giving way to gray sky
> And a minute, dry snow. The hearse was held up
> For ten minutes by two dogs fighting in the street.
> No one could separate them. Finally they stopped
> From exhaustion. A woman -- someone said she was
> A cousin -- began to laugh at the sight of blood
> On the snow. Thompson led her down a side street.
> A cardinal perched on a limb of an elm
> Directly above the minister's head. After a while
> It flew away. My daughter plans to write a sonnet
> About it. The youn g may be forgiven, I suppose,
> Their cravings for the emblematic. For me,
> The boosting of the image has always signaled
> A grasping, expedient wit.
>
> --Baron Wormser
>
> in *The White Words*
> [Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983]
>
>
>
> Hal
>
> Halvard Johnson
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