Herein Lorine Niedecker

numerous pages from offline journals/diaries of mine
may appear.  I am uncertain, but short essays and the
like will.  A daily post here is not foreseen, though
at least one post per week is foreseen.  Most posts
will engage literary topics.  If it seems I'm a twig
adrift, I am.  What I show here will be tracings of
what has and/or what is occupying my consciousness.
I cannot vouch for either the nature or value of them.
This blog will be for ruminations, investigations, 
appreciations, and whatever else.  Whether or not a
given day's post is of interest/ will have little or
nothing to do with me.  If states of mind intrigue
you, this may be a place you will frequently enter.

For several days a poem of five lines by Lorine
Niedecker has been a locus of changing shadows.
It is transfixed at the top of page 240 of 
Lorine Niedecker Collected Works where it
nonethelsss tranfixes anew with each encounter.
Jenny Penberthy is the editor of this book.
University of California Press
Berkeley   Los Angeles   London
is the publisher of the 
First paperback printing 2004
copy I received from Tom Montag.  This book is
© 2002 by the Regents of the University of California.
Thanks are due to Cid Corman for its presence.
This is the poem:
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     We are what the seas
     have made us

                                     
     longingly immense

                                   
     the very veery
     on the fence                             
                                                          
                                                    
                                                    
                                                        
                                                     
                                                                 
                                                         
Why does this poem connect with my spirit?  I am an INFP.
                                                           
As much as I am tempted to, I am not going to offer an
explication of the poem in this post because I do not want
my perceptions to interfere with yours.



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