{"id":253,"date":"2006-09-09T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-10T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2006-09-09T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-10T03:59:00","slug":"a-beaver-in-albany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/a-beaver-in-albany\/","title":{"rendered":"A beaver in Albany"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Walking down \u2014 well, we were running a bit, given the accumulating clouds \u2014 to the Albany Riverside Jazz festival, we got caught in a major downpour & sought refuge in the cathedral just 100 feet from the house we lived in for a dozen years. Standing just inside the cathedral porch, we caught sight of a carpet underfoot with an emblem we had never seen or noticed: a beaver with what looks like a bishop’s staff and a sickle moon to his right. I immediately thought of Old Man Beaver, I mean of my old friend Jerome Rothenberg who was made a beaver in 1968 in Salamanca, NY by his Seneca friends. Nicole took the photo:<\/div>\n
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It struck me as odd that beaver should be there, at the entrance of a 19C cathedral, to be walked over, despite his bishoppy outfit. For I remembered one of Jerry’s poems from A SENECA JOURNAL:<\/div>\n

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SENECA JOURNAL 4<\/p>\n

1.
beaver at the beginning of
the world (they said)
he was their father master
builder god who taught his son
to hunt progenitor of tribes<\/p>\n

2<\/p>\n

by 1640
was not a beaver left
for furs in all of
New York State<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The rain stopped shortly & we made it down to the JazzFest. Great pleasure hearing Mose Allison (wow, 78!) backed by friend Jeff Siegel<\/a> on drums and Rich Syracuse<\/a> on bass. Had to rush off to a poetry reading in the middle of Allison’s set, but couldn’t miss Bernadette Mayer & Rebecca Wolf. Excellent reading, dry indoors with rain & thunder & lightning outside. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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