Dailies 10/16/17: an Episcopal hymn by Richard Wilbur. + Odysseus, a proposal, Design, & why whales are back in NY City

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Poetry Diary:

“A Stable Lamp is Lighted” – Episcopal hymn based on the poem by Richard Wilbur 

W.S. Merwin  – Odysseus

Always the setting forth was the same,
Same sea, same dangers waiting for him
As though he had got nowhere but older.
Behind him on the receding shore

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“Are we not yet adult enough as a culture to acknowledge that the arts are not for everyone, and that bad art is worse than no art at all; and that good or bad, art’s exclusive function is to entertain, not to improve or nourish or console, simply entertain.”

– August Kleinzahler  

Crystal Spring Gibbins – Because the Night You Asked

            for Josh

Because the night you asked me
the moon shined like a quarter
in the sky; because the leaves
were the color of wine at our feet;

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 J. Allyn Rosser – Design

Frost’s feeling [is] that while design is inherent in the universe, it has
no significant meaning.
—C. Lehmann-Haupt

It rankles to think my thinking
may senselessly inhere, be merely
in here, mere Rorschach inking
of a brain whose merely capillary
purposes can be reduced to mean—

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Rajiv Mohabir – Why Whales Are Back in New York City

After a century, humpbacks migrate
again to Queens. They left
due to sewage and white froth
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