{"id":4069,"date":"2020-03-24T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/?p=4069"},"modified":"2026-01-23T16:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:44:07","slug":"iris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/pastis\/iris\/","title":{"rendered":"At the End of Every Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of every storm we\u2019ve grown used
\n<\/span>to we feel exposed. There is too much light.
\nGone the swaths of cloud wind tore like
\nclotted bandages from the tarnished tin sky.
\nWe hear blood reverberating in our ears,
\nwonder whether others divine our thought\u2019s
\ntempest. Aren\u2019t our minds crossed with roiling
\nsquall the better to conceal the tack of our bark?
\n<\/span>Something is over. That is enough.
\n<\/span><\/span>Yet wouldn\u2019t we rather it not? We\u2019re so<\/span>
\n naked when calm. When spasms abate,<\/span>
\n we\u2019re alone, seeking out pangs like old friends<\/span>
\n who suddenly are gone. Through a bright cleft<\/span>
\n in the clouds sunbeams rain down upon us.<\/span><\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

An uncharacteristic spate of early spring storms spurred me to feature this poem, one of a series of sonnets and near sonnets under the title of “Noumena”, which roughly translates from the Greek\u00a0<\/em>noumena<\/a> (<\/em>\u03bd\u03bf\u03bf\u03cd\u03bc\u03b5\u03bd\u03b1<\/span>) as things thought, as opposed to phenomena, \u00a0perceptible things. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

My <\/em>Noumena are admittedly abstruse, difficult poems which point toward what sometimes appear to be forms behind words themselves, much like the poetry of some French <\/em>symbolistes<\/a>\u00a0did.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

But there are hidden psychological forces which call such and such a poem to mind, including those we have written ourselves. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In “<\/em>Chaparral Sunset<\/a>” I was surprised to find that I had been writing about my own death. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

“Iris” is on the other hand a poem evoking the light following a storm, simply put: hope. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

By the time I posted this, it had become impossible for me to read this it as other than a response to the covid pandemic.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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At the end of every storm we\u2019ve grown used to we feel exposed. There is too much light. Gone the swaths of cloud wind tore like clotted bandages from the tarnished tin sky. We hear blood reverberating in our ears, wonder whether others divine our thought\u2019s tempest. Aren\u2019t our minds crossed with roiling squall the … <\/p>\n

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