these poems:
mark strand “keeping things whole“
may swenson “birthday”
h.d. “heat“
and
john keats “ode on melancholy“
there is something about absence or loss in each, but i am still working with them. what am i missing? grapes? voids? that the presence of one thing either highlights or obscures another? relations between things. joy or pleasure in the presence of loss or sadness? how do i make this clearer, for freshmen?
