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About Denise LevertovTimeline (1923 - 1997) |
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Scraps of moon
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Scraps of moon
bobbing discarded on broken water but sky-moon complete, transcending all violation Here she seems to be talking to herself about the shape of a life: Only Once All which, because it was flame and song and granted us joy, we thought we'd do, be, revisit, turns out to have been what it was that once, only; every invitation did not begin a series, a build-up: the marvelous did not happen in our lives, our stories are not drab with its absence: but don't expect to return for more. Whatever more there will be will be unique as those were unique. Try to acknowledge the next song in its body-halo of flames as utterly present, as now or never.
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The "sky-moon complete, transcending / all violation" even though it appears shattered when reflected in the bobbing water. There's a vision of reality worth meditating all.
And an important reminder that each glimmering, each experience, each moment is only once. Never repeated. Even when the exact same event occurs a second time, it is not the exact same event, but a new world unto itself.
Denise Levertov's advice comes from a place of deep wisdom: "...Try / to acknowledge the next / song in its body-halo of flames as utterly / present, as now or never."
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