{"id":7450,"date":"2011-12-18T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T13:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=7450"},"modified":"2011-12-18T10:28:01","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T14:28:01","slug":"sylvia-mae-gorelicks-homage-to-george-whitman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/sylvia-mae-gorelicks-homage-to-george-whitman\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvia Mae Gorelick’s Homage to George Whitman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TO GEORGE WHITMAN<\/strong><\/pre>\n
like some placeless angel\r\nI wandered over your threshold\r\nand was caught--an animal\r\n\twithout end\r\nbecame the streets you couldn\u2019t walk\r\nyou told me: Paris is free\r\nand I dissolved into it\r\n\tsome wild chance\r\nthe bells of Notre Dame invited us\r\n\tto write our way through the real\r\nthat breath of loss\r\nwe were innumerable\r\nthe forever you promised me--of life and the city\r\n--our only secret\r\npushing self out of self\r\non the impossible edge of the Seine\r\nwhere a science of loves\r\nwas forming itself\r\nwhat past--that past?\r\nwe aren\u2019t over, George\r\ntoday the earth\r\n\tlike a veil that falls\r\nfrom Salom\u00e9\u2019s sovereign hand\r\nis hardly empty of you\r\n--it\u2019s your gift\r\n\tan overabundance of evening color\r\nmy body limbless and extended\r\nout your window past Cit\u00e9\r\nI was infinite between languages\r\nmy sorrows were passions\r\nI exceeded the museum\r\nand the books\r\nand had the papers for you\r\n\t\t\tdaily\r\nI was only world\r\nbecause of you\r\n\tI rose out of your bathtub\r\nlike a sylph\r\n\tmaking way for night\r\nand spilling over\r\n\r\nin your little tower you absorbed\r\n\tthe joy from all the\r\n\tbusy masquerades and games\r\nof comers and goers\r\n\r\nthe musics of all centuries\r\n\tconverged in your company\r\nyou gleaned the girls of every era\r\n\twithout shame\r\nI think it was a singular ancient talk\r\n\t\tyou filled me with\r\nwaking up with the unsaid\r\n\ttaking her dance\r\nnot an instant lost on us\r\nno end to the poem\r\n\tI wrote myself into--from you\r\ntime allows for us to disappear\r\n\tbehind its back\r\n\r\nyou were more than\r\nalive--outside living\r\nbeyond the congregation of\r\n\tstatues at the cathedral\r\n\t\tgarden\r\n\tand cannot have truly died\r\nyou sharp-eyed king\r\nabove all law\r\n\tgenerous wit\r\n\tcollector of stray children\r\nfacts were never a great\r\n\tinterest of yours\r\n--the fact of life or being dead\r\n\r\nI salute you\r\n\tin our common luck\r\nof having for a birth\r\n\t--that sudden city<\/pre>\n
\t14 Dec. 2011<\/pre>\n
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