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New and ancient friends
By
Robert Moss
I’m savoring a couplet from the French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, who has appeared in several of my dreams. He’s famed for his obscurity, but these two lines, from a poem about friendship, bring a bittersweet sense of something entirely familiar: Nous immémoriaux quelques-uns si contents Sur la soudaineté de notre amitié neuve In rough translation: We,…
In the forest of living symbols
By
Robert Moss
We want to be more literalist about dreams and more symbolist about waking life. Dreams often show us events that are manifesting, or will manifest in the future, in the external world. Big dreams may be experiences of another reality – for example, a past or parallel life, a neighborhood in the afterlife, or a…
In praise of black dogs
By
Robert Moss
In Praise of Black Dogs I am in favor of personal superstitions. Not the kind Granma mumbles Or the stuff of fright-night moves But the ones that grow on you When you notice which incidents in a day Are shadows cast by something ahead And get to know which clues from the world Are reliable…
Making poetry from dreams
By
Robert Moss
Poetry sometimes comes dancing out of dreams, in fully-formed words. My life was changed in 1987, during a visit to Maya country, when I woke with these mysterious, cadenced lines echoing in my mind and (it seemed) in the room: I am from such as those by whom the worlds are shaken I was not…
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