by Richard Subber | Jul 18, 2023 | Language, My poetry, Poetry
…a reverie of imagination
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Time becomes energy.
The clean slate waits for the first mark,
she will make that stroke
when she is ready,
she moves beyond not knowing,
as she unwinds the calculus of understanding,
and lightly trembles
with the gentle passion of curiosity.
She learns new tools
and learns that mistakes can be erased
after they have done their work.
Persistence is a new glee,
she turns the cat’s cradle of unknowns
in her reverie of imaginations,
and forgets to look up from her book,
learns to welcome the gestalt
of words on the previous page…
she coolly adds 137 and 319
in her head,
and with her chalk pencil
she writes the secret sum.
November 14, 2020
Inspired by Die Hausaufgabe (The Homework), painted in 1893 by Simon Glücklich (1863-1943)
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“Fishering,” by Brian Doyle
…what meets the eye…
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by Richard Subber | Jul 15, 2023 | Human Nature, Theater and play reviews
joie de vivre, the real McCoy…
Movie review:
The African Queen
The African Queen (1951, rated PG, 105 minutes) was an adventure film when adventure had more to do with intrepid characters and the right thing and joie de vivre than with car chases and bullets flying every which way.
Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart won an Oscar for Best Actor) kindly offers to take Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn was nominated for Best Actress) on a boat ride—in his broken down scow (The African Queen) on an unforgiving river in German East Africa in 1914.
Rose, the unworldly widow of a missionary, learns to manhandle the tiller, pours all the gin overboard, and generally civilizes Charlie quite enough. That scrufty bon vivant teaches her about pluck, honor, and kicking the old boiler to keep the boat going.
They risk their lives for the war effort by sinking the German warship, and they decide to get married. Ain’t love grand?
Even if you saw the movie long ago, try it again.
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Play review: A Doll’s House
Henrik Ibsen’s classic on abuse…
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by Richard Subber | Jul 13, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry, Tidbits
working it out…
Fleet Beach
Flaunting, I walk upright in the wind,
the windward shoulder braced against…
it looks like nothing,
but it feels…
I will not stop, but damn!
these lurching strides in softer sand,
I lean toward the firmer band
halfway up this draining slope,
I am not a shuffler!
I say it.
This pace is good…
It’s good enough for now.
Fleet Beach
Chatham, Cape Cod, MA
June 5, 2000
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We Were Soldiers Once…and Young
…too much death (book review)
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.)
and Joseph L. Galloway
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Jul 11, 2023 | Book reviews, Books, Human Nature, Reflections
“…but not less”
Book review:
Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin (b1947)
Foreword by Oliver Sacks
New York: Vintage Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., 1995, 2nd ed. 2006
270 pages
Thinking in Pictures is a calmly important book.
Probably you don’t know much about autism. Temple Grandin knows a lot, and she can teach you about the people who live lives that are different from yours. Really.
“Different, but not less.” That’s what her science teacher said about her.
She writes in a reserved tone, offering a grand sweep of what was known about autism in the mid 1990s and again in the mid 2000s. She talks about the high points and the low points of the rocky road of her life.
Temple Grandin talks with precocious understanding about animals. You’ll learn from this element as well.
I re-learned this very sobering truth: nearly everyone doesn’t experience the world the same way I do.
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The “pack horse librarians”…
…before there were bookmobiles…
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by Richard Subber | Jul 9, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
another virgin vale…
Quest
Each dell welcomes me,
offering full communion
with omnes flores et animalium,
from each crest
I walk to another virgin vale
to find a new bloom,
to taste a new berry,
to drink at an untouched spring,
and imagine that
all the waters of the earth
have filled my cup.
August 27, 2021
Inspired by “Time and the River” in Stray Leaves, a publication of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Lincoln, MA: Massachusetts Audubon Society, 2015
“One day, standing on a bridge above the roaring waters of a brook, [a little boy] turned and announced to no one in particular, ‘All the waters of the world come together.’ “ (p. 44)
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Book review: Ethan Frome
not being satisfied with less…
by Edith Wharton
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