Sunday, May 19, 2024

A LOOKING AT, WITHIN

Guardian, custodian, teacher:
Another damned tutor to get past
Before the intuition.

        - De Quncey's "estrangement from Wordsworth" attributed to the latter's
           pride, arrogance, and rudeness - 
                "the whole theory of picturesque beauty"
agitating the taxed cognition

                    *

Vanished thoughts resist retrieval,
the pitch of words
No more.

"seen from within"
            "watched over"
                        "contemplated"

each new thought
            lobbed
                    a volley of cannonballs
                                                My Way
                              (fort's re-enactment)
                                   patrolled

"to perceive directly without reasoning, know by immediate perception"

a paradigm    
        ghosts    
                tossed about     on lake waves    

                    *

Follow the breath                further out                than can be watched
            Sit        w/the feeling of finished "to do"

Intimation
            Admonishment
                                   Done

                        for Romance you shall quest

                     *

The child never "safe, safe and sound, healthy"
            Left alone       (toying) with hand-me-down
                        Needs    himself        "to be strong"