Random Noodling: Ekphrastic April, Day 20: "Edge of Abruzzi; Boat with Three People on a Lake"

April 20, 2021

Ekphrastic April, Day 20: "Edge of Abruzzi; Boat with Three People on a Lake"

"Edge of Abruzzi; Boat with Three People on a Lake" (1924) by Winifred Knights [1899-1947].

knowing that nothing
exists beyond what is
seen on the canvas

these two dimensions

possess a magic that makes
me believe I can climb in

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Michelle Heidenrich BarnesApril 20, 2021 at 9:19 AM
After climbing into your poem, I'd like to stay a while.
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Interesting Idea

I don’t use the term as an insult — the American idiot. I mean it in a precise way, as I try to remind people. For the Greeks, "idiot" carried a precise and special meaning. The person who was only interested in private life, private gain, private advantage. Who had no conception of a public good, common wealth, shared interest. To the Greeks, the pioneers of democracy, the creators of the demos, such a person was the most contemptible of all. Because even the Greeks seemed to understand: you can’t make a functioning democracy out of...idiots.

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April 20, 2021

Ekphrastic April, Day 20: "Edge of Abruzzi; Boat with Three People on a Lake"

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