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Wednesday, April 28, 2004

I think I'll go play my mandolin at the Green Door tonight. I'll have a Bass and a single malt and I'll sing "Angel from Montgomery": When I was a young girl, ooh I had me a cowboy … or if I knew the tune, Thom Gunn's "Seesaw," from The Man With Night Sweats:

Days are bright,
Nights are dark.
We play seesaw
In the park.

Look at me
And my friend
Freckleface
The other end.

Shiny board
Between my legs.
Feet crunch down
On the twigs.

I crouch close
To the ground
Till it's time:
Up I bound.

Legs go loose,
Legs go tight.
I drop down
Like the night.

Like a scales.
Give and take,
Take and give.
My legs ache.

So it ends
As it begins.
Off we climb
And no one wins.


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Thom Gunn has died, survived by his partner of 52 years and by his magnificent poetry. This is from his Boss Cupid, one of several books profoundly affected by the AIDS disaster:

Epitaph

Walker within this circle, pause.
Although they all died of one cause,
Remember now how their lives were dense
With fine, compacted difference.


Blogged from webmail, so there's no title. More when I get back to my books.


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