Dear Zazie,
Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag.
Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
one of the ones born
of tradin’ words with Bret
“Y’all used to do that a lot”
back when we did not have lives
the phrase fairly describes where
i was compared to where i had been
“And now look where you are”
where we are, we both took
the circuitous route to where we can say we are doin’
considerably better than fair to middlin’
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slightly above or far below
i have been and this constant
blue on white holds together
you, words from the past,
visions seen or heard
or imagined, still
gratefulness paces
ahead of expectations
and you listen and belief comes
a two-step left behind now glidin’
effortlessly sweepin’ all else away
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better than that these days
as we continue towards us
no longer, hopeless nights
from the depths to the horizon
this here, the way this becomes,
no room for despair
the next day and the next, the only dream, the only one in which we face whatever happens with desire and grace
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another night
left with wakefulness
helpless against
what has and has not
been done
turn to
most faithful
memories
to chase away
the bad dreams,
the ones
which dwell
in deep retreats
veils removed
till in concord
and come
to all that remains
you and i
beloved
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grew up dreamin’
of bein’ a cowboy
raised by a son
of a son of one
two hundred miles
from nowhere
hired vaqueros
were my first,
best friends
taught me Spanish
and how to ride
learned all
there is to know
about hard work
and hard weather
grew up dreamin’
and readin’
and knowin’
that someday
i would find
ever after
wonderin’ how that worked out;
to make a heart-broke story short,
never even had
a fair to middlin’ chance
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hey thanks for askin’
been a long dang time
some 40 years… i god
where did it go
gone to waste,
gone to chasin’
what could not be caught
gone to hell if i know
but this ain’t gonna be
no tear in my beer song
not lookin’ for pity
for shitty decisions
no, i did my best
to steer my life
between the bar ditches
and my far flung wishes
i took my chances
i danced with faith
and hope and grace
but they were not
havin’ any
turns out, i was good at fallin’,
but not worth a damn at stayin’
and i got really good at runnin’
and hidin’ from feelin’s,
hidin’ from myself,
hidin’ from life
then livin’ became
readin’, writin’,
and dreamin’
sure you could ask
what kinda livin’ is that
well, better than not
so how ‘m i doin’… well
i may not be great
i may not be good
but fair to middlin’,
by god, ain’t that bad
considerin’ it all,
you may say i am settlin’
but i say when the forecast
calls for no chance,
fair to middlin’ ain’t that bad
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Today is the birthday of William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850); Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798). Wordsworth’s magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years that he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, before which it was generally known as “the poem to Coleridge”. Wordsworth was Britain’s Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
True beauty dwells in deep retreats,
Whose veil is unremoved
Till heart with heart in concord beats,
And the lover is beloved.
A Poet’s Epitaph (1799)
- A fingering slave,
One that would peep and botanize
Upon his mother’s grave.- Stanza 5.
- A reasoning, self-sufficing thing,
An intellectual All-in-all!- Stanza 8.
- He murmurs near the running brooks
A music sweeter than their own.- Stanza 10.
- And you must love him, ere to you
He will seem worthy of your love.- Stanza 11.
- The harvest of a quiet eye,
That broods and sleeps on his own heart.- Stanza 13.
Today is the birthday of Frederick Carl Frieseke (Michigan April 7, 1874 – August 24, 1939 Normandy); Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight. He is especially known for painting female subjects, both indoors and out.
Self-Portrait, 1901
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Gallery
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Reflections (Marcelle), by 1909
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Nude Seated at Her Dressing Table, 1909
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Afternoon – Yellow Room, 1910
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The Garden Parasol, ca. 1910
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Woman with a Mirror, 1911
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Breakfast in the Garden, ca. 1911
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Lilies, by 1911
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Lady in a Garden, by 1912
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Hollyhocks, ca. 1912–1913
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In the Boudoir, 1914
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Woman Seated in a Garden, 1914
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Nude in Dappled Sunlight, 1915
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The Robe, 1915
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Unraveling Silk, ca. 1915
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The Window, ca. 1915
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Seated Nude, 1920
Today is the birthday of Gino Severini (Cortona 7 April 1883 – 26 February 1966 Paris); painter and a leading member of the Futurist movement. For much of his life he divided his time between Paris and Rome. He was associated with neo-classicism and the “return to order” in the decade after the First World War. During his career he worked in a variety of media, including mosaic and fresco. He showed his work at major exhibitions, including the Rome Quadrennial, and won art prizes from major institutions.
aged 30, at the opening of his solo exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery, London
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Gallery
Dancers at Monicos
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1911, La Danseuse Obsedante (The Haunting Dancer, Ruhelose Tanzerin), oil on canvas, 73.5 x 54 cm, private collection
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1911, Le Boulevard, oil on canvas, 63.5 x 91.5 cm, Estorick Collection, London
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1911, The Pan Pan Dance (The Pan Pan Dance). This 1911 version was destroyed. Gino Severini made a new version in 1959-60, now at Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris
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1912, Dynamism of a Dancer (Dinamismo di una danzatrice, Ballerina di chahut), oil on canvas, 60 x 45 cm, Jucker Collection, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
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1913, Tango Argentino, work on paper (published on the cover of Der Sturm, Volume 4, Number 192-193, 1 January 1914)
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c.1915-16, dimensions and whereabouts unknown, photo Léonce Rosenberg, published in Action: Cahiers Individualistes de Philosophie et d’art, Volume 1, Number 2, March 1920
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1919, Nature Morte (still life)
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1919, Nature morte à la guitare. Private collection
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1919, Bohémien Jouant de L’Accordéon (The Accordion Player), Museo del Novecento, Milan
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January 1920, Nature morte (Still-life)
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Mosaic decorating the Church of St. Mark in Cortona, Italy
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Today is the birthday of Gabriela Mistral (Vicuña, Chile; 7 April 1889 – 10 January 1957 Hempstead, New York); the pseudonym of Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga; poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. In 1945 she became the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature, “for her lyric poetry which, inspired by powerful emotions, has made her name a symbol of the idealistic aspirations of the entire Latin American world”. Some central themes in her poems are nature, betrayal, love, a mother’s love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American identity as formed from a mixture of Native American and European influences. Her portrait also appears on the 5,000 Chilean peso bank note.
Poesia
Me voy de ti con vigilia y con sueño, y en tu recuerdo más fiel ya me borro.
de las sierras hasta el mar.
Pero yo, la que te mece,
¡yo no tengo soledad!
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