poems for September 19 (Rundel)

see the line-up and discussion of 9/18.

SWIMMING IN A WATERING CAN—  by Bruce Bennett

WORDS FOR THE STRAY by Bruce Bennet as response to

 Don Kimball's, Burial for a Stray

Degeneration

ON RECEIVING A NOTE AND PICTURE FROM A FORMER STUDENT ANNOUNCING SHE HAS BECOME A GRANDPARENT
MY LIFE
side by side of Dylan Thomas “Do not go Gentle”  with your “Go Gentle”…
I read outlaid at the end of the session: At Rose's Range by R. S. Gwynn. 

I had written this to Bruce:

For me, I’d love to know more about what inspires your “loose cannon” in the canon!
Indeed, he has taught each author parodied.  We didn't get to finding out more of 

This Is Just To Say  // This is just to confess and A Time to Talk (Frost) and No Time to Talk — Bruce Bennett

“The Cult of Eating” and Elizabeth Bishop “The Art of Losing”  or
 first line match-up of Ezra Pound's Portrait d'une Femme                                             

 and your Portrait of a Neighborhood. 
or whether he was  thinking of Goethe, in Gaming Parnassus? 

**
The Rundel group did indeed discuss the side by side villanelles... noting that the younger Dylan Thomas, raging,
and asking his father to rage against the dying, was appropriate, whereas the more balanced, kindly "why rage, it's
what it is" comes from a longer life filled with experience.   One was pure emotion, the other a sermon from an old man filled with questions.  Why not?  Why rage?  May it not make sense...?  Fight no more?  Pass on with dignity? Obey
the clear command?  We stumbled at the light-/ line-break to - en.

We also discussed the "On Receiving a Note" etc.  We enjoyed the form... and the fabulous enjambment over
a stanza break between the 3rd and 4th stanza.  "what they take from her/

that makes me part of them...

A lovely sense of family... re-connection.