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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: Bird Cage / Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2024 13:03:16 +0000
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General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>>
>>>> The best of The Penny Blog, for National Poetry Month:
>>>> Bird Cage, by Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau
>>>>
>>>> I am a bird cage
>>>> A bone cage
>>>> With a bird
>>>>
>>>> The bird in my bone cage
>>>> Is death making its nest
>>>>
>>>> When nothing is happening
>>>> I hear its wings ruffling
>>>>
>>>> And when I've laughed a lot
>>>> If I suddenly stop
>>>>
>>>> I hear it chirping
>>>> Deep down
>>>> Like a tiny alarm
>>>>
>>>> It is a bird held captive
>>>> Death in my bone cage
>>>>
>>>> Wouldn't it like to fly away
>>>> Is it you who makes it stay
>>>> Or is it me
>>>> I can't say
>>>>
>>>> It cannot leave until
>>>> Having eaten all
>>>> My heart
>>>> The blood source
>>>> With the life inside
>>>>
>>>> It will have my soul in its beak.
>>>>
>>>> http://gdancesbetty.blogspot.ca/2010/03/bird-cage-hector-de-saint-denys-garneau.html
>
>>> Okay, so I think it is indeed Hector who got the translations.
>
>>> "Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau (1912-1943) is considered the first
>>> modernist
>>> poet in Quebec. His poetry feeds on landscapes of his country in order
>>> to
>>> connect the poet to the universal themes of the unknown and death. The
>>> poems
>>> show the duality of the man through the look that the child-poet takes
>>> on
>>> distressing images: birds that escape, forest fires, images exacerbated
>>> by
>>> the opaque transparency of poetic language..."
>
>>> https://www.poetryinvoice.com/node/2050
>
>>> ===================================================
>
>> This poem continues to make me think of Robin Williams, an actor I still
>> miss.
>
> Agree and second......!

Happy holiday my friend.