The Fog (after H.D.)
I am dead.
You avoid me.
I open like a shell.
You expose me with your breath.
What am I, heartless one?
H.D.’s poem “The Pool” was the launching point for this piece.
O at the Edges
Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.
O at the Edges 
Deep, very nice.
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Thank you.
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I read H.D.’s – what a successful launch! 😊 I miss your transliterations (?) of Chinese poetry
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Thanks, Mek. I call them adaptations. Will get back to them one of these days. 🙂
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Ah yes, transliterations were what you posted to accompany the adaptations! Anyway, hope to see them soon. Saves me from learning Mandarin!
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Oh, learn Mandarin! And Cantonese.
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Very nice homage, Bob. I think H.D.—not unlike yourself—is an underappreciated poet! The conclusive line you use, “What am I, heartless one?,” contains so much turmoil and the potential for so much circularity, that I’m both baffled by and enamored of it. Brilliant poem in just a few words. I could see it as an epigraph at the beginning of your next book [if not a poem in said book].
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H.D. is definitely underappreciated – so much emotion, such imagery, with so few words. Hmm. I like the idea of using this as an epigraph. Now I just have to write the book. 🙂
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wonderful. i haven’t been reading much lately, what with my life and all. just realised how i’ve been missing your poetry
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You have made my day, Belinda. Thank you!
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This could be the autobiography of H.D. in a (nut)shell.
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It really could be!
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would be a perfect riddle if you didn’t give the answer in the title.
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But is that the answer, or something obscuring the answer? 🙂
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Ooooooo
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So nicely Zen. First two lines just pull you right in, could have been a poem in themselves, but glad it went deeper.
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Thanks, Angela. H.D.’s work often had a meditative quality. I tried to capture that here, adding my own little twist.
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Will look at more of H.D’s work. Thanks for the intro.
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It took me a long time to warm up to H.D., but I’ve become an ardent fan.
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Amazing
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Thank you.
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I liked your poem! I will visit your site again. Thank you for visiting my new blog, too.
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Thanks for dropping by, Eve.
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