Page Seventy-three
Saturday 12 December 2009
by: mishi Posted on: 12-12-2009 @ 10:22 am………….. Greenfield
Questions for the solstice:
If I know a song of my cats and me wandering the canal, does the canal know a song of us?
If I know a song of my dogs and me on the riverbank and in a certain woods, do the woods and the river know a song of us?
If I know a song of a romance with the moon, a romance that went on and on with me and with cats and with dogs, does the moon now sing more sadly, now my love has been withdrawn?
If the sun in its standing still at the solstice hour in any way remembers how I honored such times, will it notice at all that my honor is put away under a shroud?
I got this question from Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), from Out of Africa: If I know a song of Africa, does Africa know a song of me?
Of course the answer to all of these questions, Karen’s and mine, is almost certainly: No.
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