celery farm

Looking for places to walk in “nature” near my workplace in Bergen County NJ. Found this: Celery Farm

zuihitsu

a genre of Japanese literature consisting of loosely connected personal essays and fragmented ideas that typically respond to the author’s surroundings. The name is derived from two Kanjis meaning “to follow” and “brush”, and...

throw away the ladder

Wittgenstein’s Ladder, a poem by David Lehman Not much of a poem. And I have read that LW was not a machine gunner, nor a stretcher carrier in WWI, he operated a search light...

whereof one cannot speak

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. L. Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus Echoing in my head. What are the limits of that whereof one cannot speak? Can poetry mediate that limit? I wonder...

perspicuous representation

Offblog, I’ve been working on a perspicuous representation. perspicuus, transparent, from perspicere I like the term “clear” better. Also – “Weltbild,” a picture of the world. But all derived. A detached world. Which is...

maine mine

Donnell’s Pond from the top of Schoodic mountain happy 8th anniversary one small step fogbound, view from Georges Pond Road, early Labor Day morning