After two absurdly relaxing weeks in Mexico I am only just now digging out from under emails, backlogged paperwork—you know the routine. But before the weekend overtakes me I want to pass along one of the most evocative meditations I’ve read about the role of the poet: Eavan Boland’s “Islands Apart: A Notebook”, from the latest (May 2008) issue of Poetry. I urge you to spend some time with it.
Thank you for the link to this meditation.<BR/>Spending "time with it" did not<BR/>change my status, but it did help me<BR/>to more fully understand it<BR/>and so to feel better about<BR/>the choice I have made<BR/>even though at some point I may seriously try<BR/>to counter it by returning to the light<BR/>I once was in should I live<BR/>long enough to do so.<BR/><BR/>from he who talks in circles