{"id":4024,"date":"2020-01-29T09:53:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T17:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4024"},"modified":"2020-02-01T18:41:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T02:41:29","slug":"may-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/may-snow\/","title":{"rendered":"May Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

A literary critic, of which there must be a few left somewhere, would observe that this poem belongs to my early Canadian period, though polished during my middle, baroque Berkeley years.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

She might also note its free-form slant rhyme. After a jarring play on words in the first line, it sets forth, she could write, a poetry of correspondances in which outer phenomena fuse with inner mental states, a storm with memory, nature with noumena.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The pith of this poem sprung to me in a flash. The hard poetical work subsequently entailed will preserve it longer, I trust, than that snowflake which floated onto an eyelash then quickly melted away.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Call it Indian winter.
\nA sudden storm in spring
\nhas weighed the green boughs down,
\nburied young shoots under.
\nA crust crushes
\nthe growing germ.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Call it memory,
\niridescent flashes
\nblown off laden branches,
\na flush of sun
\nwhich limns the ashes.<\/p>\n

Where there was a clump
\nof grass, emeralds
\nglitter in the slush.
\nFor the instant it lasts
\na flake glints on my lashes.<\/p>\n

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A literary critic, of which there must be a few left somewhere, would observe that this poem belongs to my early Canadian period, though polished during my middle, baroque Berkeley years.\u00a0 She might also note its free-form slant rhyme. After a jarring play on words in the first line, it sets forth, she could write, … <\/p>\n

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