OUT OF OUR MINDS (Whitey, Armed, Vandalizes the U.S. Capitol, 1/6/21) ~

 

A tree only dies from the top

— Simone Weil

Police with guns drawn watch as protesters try to break into the House chamber at the US Capitol. Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/AP
Credit...J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press

Richard Bigo Barnett, 60, from Gravette, Ark.

Feet up in Speaker Pelosi's office

"I like a look of agony

Because I know it's true"

~Emily Dickinson

Republican Vermont Gov. Phil Scott called on President Donald Trump to "resign or be removed from office" for inciting Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol.  In a statement released Wednesday evening, Scott accused the president of blatantly  trying to spark an "insurrection." 

Saying Donald Trump has "betrayed our national security" and will do so again, Rep. Adam Schiff used his closing arguments in the president's impeachment trial on Monday to urge the Senate to take a stand against "a man without character."

"We must say enough — enough! He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again," Schiff, D-Calif., told the Senate. "He has compromised our elections, and he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What's right matters even less, and decency matters not at all."

February 3, 2020

Trump Is to Blame for Capitol Attack

The president incited his followers to violence. There must be consequences.

By The Editorial Board

The editorial board is a group of opinion journalists whose views are informed by expertise, research, debate and certain longstanding values. It is separate from the newsroom.

• Jan. 6, 2021, 8:01 p.m. ET

The New York Times January 6, 2021

"The president needs to be held accountable — through impeachment proceedings or criminal prosecution — and the same goes for his supporters who carried out the violence. In time, there should be an investigation of the failure of the Capitol Police to prepare for an attack that was announced and planned in public."

The New York Times January 6, 2021

Woman shot in the Capitol has died.

"No one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol than one Joshua David Hawley, the 41-year-old junior senator from Missouri, who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway."

- Kansas City Star 1/6/21

an inside job. . .

NIEDECKER / EDWARD DORN ~

    

 Niedecker / EDWARD DORN

The strict eye

of  sparrowhawk evenly

in her survey of reality

The firm bone of the woman

at the well

The line of a simply exquisite rope

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Epitaphs for Lorine

Jargon 74

Thirty-two poets celebrate

Lorine Niedecker (1903-1970)

The Jargon Society, 1973

I took this book out of the new, tall and very narrow

built-in bookcase I built in our bedroom and saw it was

ideal for the tiniest books in my library, and this little gem

I often return to from Jargon fit the bill. I built the bookcase

a week before Christmas 2020 the same time I was finishing

an equally tall and narrow jewelry cabinet for Sweeheart. Both

situated left and right of the doorjamb of our bedroom. As a 

builder, I like that little forgotten space where the likes of jewelry, 

tiny books (and I have many) and even CDs where long ago I built

two cabinets for all my Blues CDs left and right of the doorjamb

in the living room. It's wasted space until you discover it. The above

Dorn poem knows all about space — sparrowhawk, woman, rope.

[ BA ]

[ Ian Hamilton Finlay ]

KUSANO SHIMPEI ~

 

a while

gee. like trachoma.

what a lovely moon.

somewhere hereabouts fox is munching something eh.

zebra grass grows wild there. Qayloqay was little he got lost there you know.

no. whatever happened.

somehow he's still alive.

but.

but? every day at the brink alive somehow. nothing serious..

my but what a lovely moon huh.

oh.

that mountain what's behind it.

marshes mountains and ricefields. all the same.

beyond them?

more ricefields. fields. pear fields.

and beyond them?

way way beyond?

yes that's what i mean.

there's the sea. who was it. yuh. Qanimm.

they were boasting. the sea's a sky turned into a river.

then it must be also somehow blue huh.

even by day they say it's black. big & black alive.

good heavens!

the sand looks dazzling.

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frogs &.

others.

poems by Kusano Shimpei

translated from the Japanese by Cid Coman

& Kamaike Susumu

(Mushinsha / Grossman, 1969

When I was young, if I came upon a book published by

Mushinsha / Grossman – I had to own it. I bought each and

every one. That's how I came to read Frank Samperi, Cid Corman,

Will Petersen, Kusano Shimpei, Rene Char, Eric Sackheim et al.,

what could go wrong? Nothing did. The books were exquisite, an

extra minute or so was taken to enhance the design of the books, 

the feel of the books, the looks of the books, and the quality overall was

life changing. You know the little girl you once saw walking on a cloud

in the park with a book under her arm — a Mushinsha book, that was me. 

In 1969 when the Shimpei book was published, issued in a hefty 

stapled together slipcase, poet and translator Cid Corman performed 

a masterstroke, and was at the  height of his best years when he wasn’t peering 

around for fame and notoriety but sharpening his skills as a poet and a mover. 

His introductory prose here and translating prowess reads sword sharp. 

[ BA ]

POETS WHO SLEEP #32~

P O E T S     W H O     S L E E P

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                                           drawn & scribed by Bob Arnold

The complete series to date ~ please link here

RE-READING PIG EARTH ~

 

In a large library of all important books

Pig Earth remains my personal favorite of 

John Berger's gifts to the world —

this is Berger's first novel (with poems)

in his trilogy from the French peasant

countryside Into Their Labours,

also including Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag.

Also of note from the Berger countryside are

two books: A Fortunate Man: the story of a country doctor 

(with photographs by John Mohr)

and, Another Way of Telling.

This just begins to touch stone in a very long 

career for a novelist, critic and essayist

who began his life as a painter

in London, born November 5, 1926.

Gone to us January 2, 2017 in France.

[ BA ]

WOODCHOPPER'S BALL ~