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THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME POEM BY POEM

Storm Warnings

The glass has been falling all the afternoon,

And knowing better than the instrument

What winds are walking overhead, what zone

Of gray unrest is moving across the land,

I leave the book upon a pillowed chair

And walk from window to closed window, watching

Boughs strain against the sky.

And think again, as often when the air

Moves inward toward a silent core of waiting,

How with a single purpose time has traveled

By secret currents of the undiscerned

Into this polar realm. Weather abroad

And weather in the heart alike come on

Regardless of prediction.

Between foreseeing and averting change

Lies all the mastery of elements

Which clocks and weatherglasses cannot alter.

Time in the hand is not control of time,

Nor shattered fragments of an instrument

A proof against the wind; the wind will rise,

We can only close the shutters.

I draw the curtains as the sky goes black

and set a match to candles sheathed in glass

Against the keyhole draught, the insistent whine

Of weather through the unsealed aperture.

This is our sole defense against the season;

These are the things that we have learned to do

Who live in troubled regions.

– Adrienne Rich

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Very good analogy. Ishmael Reed used to say Writing is fighting. I think drumming captures the energy as well and likely in many respects better.

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Ah we all Dive Into The Wreak today. Can relate. My only notes to self on writing are to write like my hairs on fire. Writing seems most related to drumming. We don’t keep the best, we stay with it. Steady like a rock. There are many who will survive this and be sane who need our work.

https://youtu.be/mzvk0fWtCs0

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You and I should really talk. :)

No "facts," though.

And I have been an unfounded cognitive scientist (still paid for the number of students in higher ed :) ), who had to "teach" journalism for 10 years, I can assure you, I am not a journalist, although I can write journalism. At your intellectual level, that probably requires some effort to "dumb things down," but that really shouldn't make a difference. My impression is that the audience here wants mostly journalism, although you and I can cautiously provide more, without deterring people. :)

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