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    AC Benus
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  • 11/28/2022
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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a Glass Floor Underfoot - 23. a swing am I

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Romantiker-Bildnisse

Herrn John Höxter gewidmet

 

5.

Wie eine Schaukel bin ich, die im Schwunge

In dunkler Linden Kronenfülle dringt,

Daß kleine Äste fallen und das junge

Duftblühn gelbstäubend auf den Boden sinkt.

 

Sie biegt im Laub nun wie ein Kahn im Rohre,

Ins Kühl will schmiegen sich der staub’ge Rand.

Schwer flog sie ab und, in dem Sturz verloren,

Ihr Leib in dicker Erdluft Trägheit schwand.

 

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Romantic Portraits

Mister John Höxter bestowed

 

5.

Like a swing am I, and who like in his swing

Penetrates the shaded linden’s top crown,

So small broken branches and the young scent bring

A golden-dusted spray as they fall down.

 

It turns in the leaves like a barge in the reeds

Whose pollened edge in cool wants to adhere.

Heavy too, it falls off, flies and then recedes

Through thick air in inert earth to disappear.

 

 

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Marsden Hartley Landscape (circa 1912)

 

 

 

 

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Parker Owens

As with so many of these Jentzsch poems, the images and references are overlaid with one another like so many fallen leaves. It’s hard to focus on just one of them. This is quite beautiful.

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9 hours ago, Parker Owens said:

As with so many of these Jentzsch poems, the images and references are overlaid with one another like so many fallen leaves. It’s hard to focus on just one of them. This is quite beautiful.

Thanks, Parker. It seems to me lindens are such a German tree to talk about in poetry. I can't recall one in English (off the top of my head) that mentions them, and Jentzsch conjures them so effortlessly in this wonderful poem. 

Thanks for reading ❤️ 

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On 11/29/2022 at 4:37 AM, Parker Owens said:

The American Linden is also known as Basswood; I’m not sure about how it relates to the German tree. 

Does the basswood produce a profusion of sweet-smelling, tiny yellow flowers in clusters?

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3 hours ago, AC Benus said:

Does the basswood produce a profusion of sweet-smelling, tiny yellow flowers in clusters?

Time for me to do some research!

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