Your kind touch - you lie
with me if I'm a lucky
man - oh I see stars!
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There is more than one way to read the word "lie". I intend at least two of them. :D
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The View From The Northern Wall
Some years ago my poetry took on a mythic flavor and I became a character in my own poems, a mage, "the man of the Northern Wall". This apellation is not completely fictional. My middle name is Noordwal, a Dutch term for north wall, though in current Dutch it mainly means north bank as in riverbank. I was told that an ancestor, a Portugese Jew escaping the Inquisition, settled in a small Dutch town and took this name from where he settled, near the north wall of the town. I have thought for a long time that -wal meant wall, think my mother told me that. A linguist might say that my usage is no longer common, is an older usage, but then the Inquisition happened in Portugal a few centuries ago, right around the time the Moors lost control of the Iberian Peninsula and the Jews lost the modest protection given them by Islam. Now I write as this mage, my poetry persona.
About Me
- christopher
- Oregon City, Oregon
- Mechanical designer for industry, now retired, once a Bay Area Hippie, went undercover in 1972, I've been writing poetry for years. Contact: 3topper45@gmail.com
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how i appreciate what you do, christopher, how you stop and think and share, how you have lived, and how you live.
ReplyDeleteand considering this piece with the alternative lie, as in deceive, the piece carves out a deeper bed in societies deceptions.
(i'm glad you are mending. three weeks is an awfully long time to be ill in bed and yes, it is disconcerting in a way that you simply abided the body's need but it is a wonder of the body, too.)
xo
erin