Thursday, February 24, 2011

Ezra Pound: A Paradise Lost (Notes for Canto CXX)


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Rock formation sculpted by wind erosion, Altiplano, Bolivia:
photo by Thomas Wilken, 2005





I have tried to write Paradise

Do not move
...Let the wind speak
.........that is paradise.

Let the Gods forgive what I
.........have made
Let those I love try to forgive
.........what I have made.
















Lightning and lava flows over Eyjafjallajokull: photos by Olivier Vandeginste, Sunday 18 April 2010

Ezra Pound: Notes for Canto CXX, c. 1960