It began as the GODFATHER OF MATH, evolved into the GOODFATHER OF MATH. Now this. Go figure...

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The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = G. CARLIN...Stain glass, engraved glass, frosted glass
–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES ... Music is the mathematics of the gods=PYTHAGORAS ... Nothing is more fluid than language = R. L. SWIHART
I cannot live without the oxygen of laughter = DAWN POWELL ... !!! ... But laughter cannot survive without the hydrogen of gravitas = PAUL OLIVERIO
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Thursday, December 14, 2023

SUNFLOWER ... By John Updike

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SUNFLOWER

Sunflower, of flowers
the most lonely,
yardstick of hours,
long-term stander
in empty spaces,
shunner of bowers,
indolent bender
seldom, in only
the sharpest of showers:
tell us why
is it your face is
a snarl of jet swirls
and gold arrows, a burning
old lion face high
in a cornflower sky,
yet by turning
your head we find
you wear a girl's
bonnet  behind?
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Collected Poems
1953-1993



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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 16, 2023 at 8:32 AM

    Let me guess: the photograph is yours but comparing this UPDIKE poem
    to the blog-slog of Oliverio poetry was too humbling for you
    to add a copyright symbol to it.

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    1. AnonymousDecember 16, 2023 at 9:25 AM

      This correct "guess" is worthy of a prize
      to be determined by Oliverio

      Delete

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