[Artemisia] About losing socks, and other things

[Catriona A. Morganosa]

Actually, you should submit it to the Sage Advice. She's always looking
for material.

Stepana Catriona Morganosa, OP

I have no respect for an animal that can be hunted with a hammer.



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[mailto:artemisia-bounces at lists.gallowglass.org] On Behalf Of Stephanae
Baker
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2007 5:02 PM
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Subject: [Artemisia] About losing socks, and other things

I think Elizabeth Bishop said it best.

One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day.  Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel.  None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch.  And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.  And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied.  It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

	-- Elizabeth Bishop



Anyway, you have to admire really good villanelles in English. If  
someone is interested, I might actually share the villanelle I wrote  
with you (not that I'm claiming it's this good). It's about losing  
things, too. Sort of.

Lady Belladonna
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