Flying high

This whole Van Morrison discovery has me flying high today (ok or maybe it's that the Hubs is coming home today, or it could be the bi-polar thing kicking in) so you may get several blog posts despite the fact that I have an ass-load of work to do.

I get daily emails of quotes and writer's stuff and this was in my email today. I thought it apprapo considering lyrics lure me into music.


"The Lyric" by Tom Clark, from Light & Shade: New and Selected Poems. © Coffee House Press. Reprinted with permission.

The Lyric
Suffering
lament, sorrow and wild
joy commingle in
the lyric — a collective
sigh of relief comes cascading
out of the blue —
a yearning to submerge
in life like the swimmer
in the pool forgetful
immersed and quenched —
water trailing scattered
diamonds in a rustling
voice of resigned subsidence
as though in the same stroke
everyone alive were speaking through you —


Side note--though Rod is coming in May I might not get to see him. Cheap tickets are starting at $100--WTF?