[“you stood among trees hung / with bitten apples” – Louise Glück] We take a bite from each apple; then, disappointed, go on to the next, always hoping to find the right apple, the one the serpent told us about, the one that will, finally, make us human. Our desire is so fierce we can almost taste it. <END> Buy it at amazon.com/author/terencekuch: For Anacreon, 30 poems of love and life from the ancient Greek poet (originally published as a chapbook by Silkworms Ink). … [Read more...]
“I Remember Your Dream” / Memorable Fancies #1186
30 April, 2015 by Leave a Comment
[“Do you remember my dream?” – Sylvia Plath] “I know what you dreamed,” she said, “from all that thrashing and mumbling,” and she proceeded to tell me what I’d dreamed, in detail. But I said no, that wasn’t it at all; and it actually wasn’t. But she said, “now you are repressing, trying to discredit me. I am disappointed that you would want to do that. Why would you want to do that to me?” She went on at some length. <END> Buy it at amazon.com/author/terencekuch: For … [Read more...]
“Love That Sofa” / Memorable Fancies #1162
5 April, 2015 by Leave a Comment
[“4. What type of relationship would you rather have with furniture?” – question from a Survey Monkey survey, March, 2015.] Dear Monkey: I have a problem with my current relationship with furniture. Usually it’s just walking-into, or banging-knees-on, but more recently, as I age, it’s inability-to-get-up-from-without-a-lot-of-effort, or sleeping-all-night-on-when-I-just-wanted-a-nap. The relationship I really want is for me to be the boss: my furniture does what I want it to, and … [Read more...]
“Looking at Each Other” / Memorable Fancies #1132
5 March, 2015 by Leave a Comment
[“And when we no longer have each other to look at”] – John Ashbery] ...we’ll look at someone else – as we’ve secretly looked all along. <END> Buy it on Amazon: For Anacreon, 30 poems of love and life from the ancient Greek poet. … [Read more...]
“Analogy of Love” / Memorable Fancies #1123
24 February, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The doctor waits for the patient. The patient waits for the doctor. There is an issue here, as neither is willing to not-wait for the other. It’s a standoff: the doctor pratices no medicine, and the patient is not cured. “See,” my friend said to me one day, “that’s how she treats me, like the doctor who waits, waits, while I do the same.” <END> Buy it on Amazon: For Anacreon, 30 poems of love and life based on the ancient Greek poet. … [Read more...]
“Pretend” / Memorable Fancies #1114
14 February, 2015 by 1 Comment
[“Can I pretend that I don’t know and you tell me all over again?” – Alan Bennett] So then you pretend to tell me and I pretend to listen. Is it always the same words, those words you say to me, the words I almost hear? <END> Buy it on Amazon: For Anacreon, 30 poems of love and life based on the ancient Greek poet. … [Read more...]
“The Conversation” / Memorable Fancies #1109
9 February, 2015 by Leave a Comment
[“So I assumed a double part, and cried / And heard another's voice cry” – Eliot, Little Gidding] It was a typical conversation between her and me: she was out somewhere and I spoke for her as well as for myself: the condemnations, the excuses, the lies. I accomplished quite a bit of relationship-building this way, over the weeks and months. But one day she didn’t return. And so the conversation continued, more corrosive and pleasing than ever. <END> Buy it on Amazon: … [Read more...]
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