[Oe List ...] [Dialogue] Gordon's November update

[Wilson Priscilla H via OE]

Such a beautiful poem, Paul. I know it is sent to Gordon…but thanks for including the rest of us.
Priscilla Wilson


> On Nov 13, 2015, at 10:39 PM, Paul Schrijnen via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:
> 
> Dear Gordon,
> 
> Thank you for your uplifting and life and death affirming letter.
> 
> This poem by Clive James comes to mind.  He is an Australian poet, 
> bon vivant and academic, living in Cambridge, UK and dying. 
> This poem appeared last year in the New Yorker. 
> 
> Paul
> 
> Japanese Maple
> BY CLIVE JAMES <http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/clive-james> 
>  <> <>Your death, near now, is of an easy sort.
> So slow a fading out brings no real pain.
> Breath growing short
> Is just uncomfortable. You feel the drain
> Of energy, but thought and sight remain:
> 
> Enhanced, in fact. When did you ever see
> So much sweet beauty as when fine rain falls
> On that small tree
> And saturates your brick back garden walls,
> So many Amber Rooms and mirror halls?
> 
> 
> Ever more lavish as the dusk descends
> This glistening illuminates the air.
> It never ends.
> Whenever the rain comes it will be there,
> Beyond my time, but now I take my share.
> 
> My daughter’s choice, the maple tree is new.
> Come autumn and its leaves will turn to flame.
> What I must do
> Is live to see that. That will end the game
> For me, though life continues all the same:
> 
> Filling the double doors to bathe my eyes,
> A final flood of colors will live on
> As my mind dies,
> Burned by my vision of a world that shone
> So brightly at the last, and then was gone.
> 
> 
> 
>> On 14 Nov 2015, at 02:50, Timothy Wegner via Dialogue <dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net <mailto:dialogue at lists.wedgeblade.net>> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm posting this for Roxanna. See attachment for Gordon's November update.
>> 
>> Gordon wrote:
>>  "OK, here's my latest--and final--version"
>> 
>> 
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