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Son's pick of the day for lunch: naru soba at I-Naba. Oishi!
1610 S.King St
Honolulu HI 96826
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"a voice so absurdly truthful"
The Uses of PoetryThis was a day when I did nothing,
aside from reading the newspaper,
taking both breakfast and lunch by myself
in the kitchen, dozing after lunch
until the middle of the afternoon. Then
I read one poem by Zbigniew Herbert
in which he thanked God for the many beautiful
things in this world, in a voice so absurdly
truthful, the entire wrecked day was redeemed.
Harvey Shapiro
The Sights Along the Harbor: New and Collected Poems
Wesleyan University Press
Copyright © 2006 by Harvey Shapiro
Used by permission of the poet and Wesleyan University Press.
Capturing end of school year sentiments: "Spring never felt like a beginning" by A. E. Stallings, (h/t @amandafrench
Seasonal Anxiety
Spring never felt like a beginning—
Something, perhaps, to do with school
And all the school-year's slow unspinning
From wound-up time as from a spool
Aimed at Summer's golden rule.Beginnings are for autumn days
Keen as newly-sharpened pencils:
The promise of new friends, straight A's,
When hopes are drawn as clear as stencils
With yet no errors to erase.Spring comes too late. The incompletes
Can't be made up. What wasn't learned
Looks at its neighbor's page and cheats,
But failure too is something earned.
Library books must be returnedAnd fines paid for the overdue
Procrastinations that accrue.
Finals impend—the term's too brief
For turning over a fresh leaf.
Too late, the daffodils come through.
A. E. Stallings
About the poet-->Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse
Autumn-Winter 2009-2010
