Finding the words
ARS POETICA: A Conversation
2025
Poetry today
is mind lip-synched to heartbeats
no AI can hear
BCE
Homer and Sappho
twinned emanations of an
ever-dawning sun
ETYMOLOGY
Poet in Greek is
maker. Not ready-mades but
diamond-faceted
ODE
“Already with thee!”
Keats’ soul-stirring jump-cut to
the nightingale’s song
Du musst dein Leben ändern
Rilke’s Archaic
Torso of Apollo warns:
“You must change your life”
Traduttore, Traditore
If Poetry is
“what’s lost in translation,” then:
Translator? Traitor!
uta
Lesson from afar:
“In Japan we have same word
for poem and song”
John 12:24
A hard rain: Acorns
bid squirrels hide their goods where
oaks rise from the dead.
