links for 2009-06-01

• Meditation at Lagunitas by Robert Hass : The Poetry Foundation [poem]
  All the new thinking is about loss.
  In this it resembles all the old thinking.
  The idea, for example, that each particular erases
  the luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown-
  faced woodpecker probing the dead sculpted trunk
  of that black birch is, by his presence,
  some tragic falling off from a first world
  of undivided light. Or the other notion that,
  because there is in this world no one thing
  to which the bramble of blackberry corresponds,
  a word is elegy to what it signifies.
  (tags: poetry hass)

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