Archives for November 2006

The essay I have been promising for a really long time is finally done. It started with wanting to tell you all a funny thing that happened to me that turned into an essay with a back story that I finally decided was really two separate stories. I tried to post the first one this morning, but had some difficulties. Hopefully I will be able to get it posted tonight.

I woke this morning a little after four and finished both essays. I have been dragging all day, but there is a peace at the bottom that they are complete.

https://alisonhodgson.com/2006/11/857/

2

“To learn about the invisible,
look at the visible,” says
the Talmud. I have seen you
for so long you are
ground into the walls,
so long I can’ remember
your face when you’re away,
so long I have to look
each night when you come home
at the tall surprise you bring
me, time and time again.

Lisel Mueller
from the poem In Praise of Surfaces

Lydia has made or bought Christmas presents for her sister, Eden, her cousin, Ren, her brother, Christopher, and her Grandma Wolfe. They are all wrapped and labeled.

Honestly, if I didn’t see her come out of my own body I would wonder where she came from.

https://alisonhodgson.com/2006/11/859/

Out of the thousands
who are known,
or who want to be known
as poets,
maybe one or two
are genuine
and the rest are fakes,
hanging around the sacred precincts
trying to look like the real thing.
Needless to say
I am one of the fakes,
and this is my story.

Leonard Cohen

from Book of Longing

There is another Christopher
Guide to Broken Ways
Rejected Christ he carries far
Yours he cannot raise

Leonard Cohen

from Book of Longing