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In Rapallo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Old Homer sleeps safe in the Protestant cemetery,<\/p>\n

the son long gone to his private Ithaka,<\/p>\n

having sung at length of \u039f\u03a5 \u03a4\u0399\u03a3 and Jederman:<\/p>\n

a half hour spent wandering by the shore,<\/p>\n

coffee and a cold bun.<\/p>\n

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The Madonna has been restored joyfully,<\/p>\n

her surcoat as blue as the summer bay,<\/p>\n

paint still glistening in the mid-morning light,<\/p>\n

my devotions a bouquet and spluttering candles,<\/p>\n

a soft chorale at Mass.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Hemingway\u2019s mask glowers over the bar<\/p>\n

Where he and the hangers-on used to carouse:<\/p>\n

then here is the hotel where Nietzsche once lived,<\/p>\n

and Sibleius sat here dreaming of another voyage:<\/p>\n

I hum \u2018Finlandia\u2019.<\/p>\n

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They say the lynx has now returned to Italy<\/p>\n

and I lay, listening for a sound in the forest,<\/p>\n

waiting for her to sing to me once again,<\/p>\n

O lynx keep watch on my fire<\/em>, the clouds have dispersed.<\/p>\n

I pray, guard this orchard<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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***<\/p>\n

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O Artemis<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

And in thy mind beauty,<\/p>\n

O Artemis<\/p>\n

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  1. Pound, Canto CXIII<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    A quiet day for once, and the Sun gentles the clouds,<\/p>\n

    Whilst the cat takes her refuge on the windowsill<\/p>\n

    Regarding the world outside as her singular amusement.<\/p>\n

    Her neighbour, her would-be lover, nestles nearby<\/p>\n

    Dreaming of daring gallantries.<\/p>\n

     <\/p>\n

    Lunch over, the accounts set straight for this month,<\/p>\n

    I can clear my desk and browse through the shelves,<\/p>\n

    Each book telling a tale or two, of loves and hatreds,<\/p>\n

    Words said in jest but stabbing too deeply:<\/p>\n

    Then there are songs of praise<\/p>\n

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    And tenderness, like yours for the child Iphigenia.<\/p>\n

    What then, O Artemis, where is pity for those children<\/p>\n

    Who now lay broken on the shores of the Euxine Ocean?<\/p>\n

    Raise your bow, loose an arrow into the burnt sky.<\/p>\n

    Show us your merciless Beauty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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