I have been laboring under a number of projects and deadlines, with no real let-up in sight until December (no joke; I have to learn to say No). I hope to begin to post a bit more regularly soon, likely by posting bits and pieces of the projects currently preoccupying me.
You mean this deadline business isn’t just a grad student thing?
Looking forward to the bits and pieces!
Sadly, no. Looks for bits and pieces starting tomorrow.
while you have been out I’ve been picking and choosing my way thru the collected works:
Advent, Kenneth Rexroth
For Brother Antoninus
Rorate coeli, desuper, et nubes pluant
justum. Aperiatur terra, et germinet
Salvatorem.
The year draws down. In the meadows
And high pastures, the green grass veins
The grey. Already the stubble
Fields are green. Orion stands
Another year over California,
Simple and lucent, guarding the full moon.
Dew descends from heaven
Good pours from the clouds.
The earth wavers on its whirling track.
We milk by lantern light. The shadows
Of the cattle are illimitable.
The lantern light knots in gouts of gold.
As the sun retreats, and the moon
Turns its face away and back again,
Following the spinning earth
Like our following lanterns
Through the dark, back to the white breath
Of the cattle, back to the smell
Of hay and dung and milk,
Back to the placental
Dark in the abandoned ruins,
God goes again to birth.