Dear Zazie, Here is today’s Lovers’ Chronicle from Mac Tag dedicated to his muse. Rhett
The Lovers’ Chronicle
Dear Muse,
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Pale Love, Pale Rider
random musin’s…
memoria, hablando
a través de memorias
is that not the meanin’
is that not the purpose,
conscious or not,
of this compulsive need
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El Pacifico
down south of the border
they have a sayin’…
El Pacifico
no tiene memoria
to be awash again
in that perfect water
washin’ away
these memories…
tell her i miss everything
when you see her, tell her…
if you came to me
would you say you knew
me, that you had known
me always, would you…
shadows cast upon
an adobe wall…
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Portrait of David Teniers by Philip Fruytiers, 1655
Today is the birthday of David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II (Antwerp 15 December 1610 – 25 April 1690 Brussels); painter, printmaker, draughtsman, miniaturist painter, staffagepainter, copyist and art curator. He was an innovator in a wide range of genres such as history, genre, landscape, portrait and still life. Perhaps best remembered as the leading Flemish genre painter of his day. Teniers is particularly known for developing the peasant genre, the tavern scene, pictures of collections and scenes with alchemists and physicians.
He was court painter and the curator of the collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, the art loving Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands. He created a printed catalogue of the collections of the Archduke. He was the founder of the Antwerp Academy, where young artists were trained to draw and sculpt in the hope of reviving Flemish art after its decline following the death of the leading Flemish artists Rubens and Anthony van Dyck in the early 1640s.
Teniers married into the famous Brueghel artist family when Anna Brueghel, daughter of Jan Brueghel the Elder, became his wife on 22 July 1637. Rubens, who had been the guardian of Anna Brueghel after her father’s death, was a witness at the wedding. Through his marriage Teniers was able to cement a close relationship with Rubens who had been a good friend and frequent collaborator with his wife’s father.
Teniers’ wife died on 11 May 1656. On 21 October of the same year the artist remarried. His second wife was Isabella de Fren. It has been suggested that Teniers’ main motive for marrying the ‘spinster’ was her rather elevated position in society. His second wife also brought him a large dowry. The couple had four children, two sons and two boys. Teniers petitioned the king of Spain to be admitted to the aristocracy but gave up when the condition imposed was that he should give up painting for money.
Gallery
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
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Muriel Rukeyser in 1945
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Today is the birthday of Muriel Rukeyser (December 15, 1913 – February 12, 1980 New York); poet and political activist, best known for her poems about equality, feminism, social justice, and Judaism. Kenneth Rexroth said that she was the greatest poet of her “exact generation”.
Verse
The Speed of Darkness (1968)
- The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
- I lived in the first century of world wars.
Most mornings I would be more or less insane.- “Poem”
- Slowly I would get to pen and paper,
Make my poems for others unseen and unborn.
In the day I would be reminded of those men and women,
Brave, setting up signals across vast distances,
considering a nameless way of living, of almost unimagined values.- “Poem”
- We would try to imagine them, try to find each other,
To construct peace, to make love, to reconcile
Waking with sleeping, ourselves with each other,
Ourselves with ourselves. We would try by any means
To reach the limits of ourselves, to reach beyond ourselves,
To let go the means, to wake.- “Poem” — these lines are among those quoted on the The Pacifist Memorial
The Gates (1976)
- How shall we venture home?
How shall we tell each other of the poet?
How can we meet the judgment on the poet,
or his execution? How shall we free him? - How shall we speak to the infant beginning to run?
All those beginning to run?- “The Gates”
- O for God’s sake
they are connected
underneath.- “Islands”
Mac Tag
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