Monday, October 3, 2022

The Way the World Is Not Astonished at You


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SONNET

Bill Knott

The way the world is not
Astonished at you
It doesn't blink at leaf
When we step from the house
Leads me to think
That beauty is natural, unremarkable
And not to be spoken of
Except in the course of things
The course of singing and worksharing
The course of squeezes and neighbors
The course of you tying back your raving hair to go out
And the course of course of me
Astonished at you
The way the world is not

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1 comment:

  1. mistah charley, sb, ma, phd, jspsOctober 3, 2022 at 3:20 PM

    1/i liked the art work, especially the lower right of the graphic that looks like a hand with a thumb

    2/from your blogroll i just read and appreciated helen garner's document

    https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/10/03/i-so-love-being-old-and-not-married/

    2.5/garner writes Springsteen is rowdily singing on the car radio: “Everybody’s got a hungry heart.” Yeah, they have; but I change stations. Ooh. Bob Dylan with Johnny Cash. How modest and melodious are their voices and simple acoustic guitars, after Springsteen’s hypermasculine bellowing.

    3/at the aldi's, where there is a sign saying face coverings are strongly encouraged, neither cashier had one on, but three of the dozen or so customers did

    3.1/missus charley was wearing her elastomeric mask when she got on the metro at shady grove this morning - at the office she will be switching to an n95

    4/


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