Comments on: The Owl http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/the-owl/ How can we live without the unknown before us? —Rene Char Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:49:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/the-owl/#comment-3929 Dave Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:51:43 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/18/the-owl/#comment-3929 Thanks, Bill! I think you caught all the subtleties here -- including one or two I wasn't fully conscious of myself. "Wondering what it might feel like to be happy ain't happy." Bingo. Thanks, Bill! I think you caught all the subtleties here — including one or two I wasn’t fully conscious of myself.

“Wondering what it might feel like to be happy ain’t happy.”
Bingo.

]]> By: Bill http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/the-owl/#comment-3928 Bill Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:45:29 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/18/the-owl/#comment-3928 Wondering what it might feel like to be happy ain't happy. "Off": this word here is carooming in it's blocking action. I felt like I was flying, then couldn't, took a tumble and ended face-up to the sky. Birds dream prone, back to the sky. Supine dreaming humans, dogs, and mammals do. Beautiful description of owl-flight. Beautiful transition to indoors, to memory, to your own wooden form of flight. Was your house shaking like a hen after a dust bath? No way! Your house was shakin' like a raptor. Very, very good. Wondering what it might feel like to be happy ain’t happy.

“Off”: this word here is carooming in it’s blocking action. I felt like I was flying, then couldn’t, took a tumble and ended face-up to the sky. Birds dream prone, back to the sky. Supine dreaming humans, dogs, and mammals do.

Beautiful description of owl-flight. Beautiful transition to indoors, to memory, to your own wooden form of flight.

Was your house shaking like a hen after a dust bath? No way! Your house was shakin’ like a raptor.

Very, very good.

]]> By: Fred Garber http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/the-owl/#comment-3927 Fred Garber Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:03:00 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/18/the-owl/#comment-3927 I like the of the owl and the descent of Dave..... I like the of the owl and the descent of Dave…..

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/the-owl/#comment-3926 Dave Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:04:22 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/18/the-owl/#comment-3926 Funny, I just happened to reread this sentence of mine in the front matter of Shadow Cabinet: "If only I could write uplifting little poems about falling in love, or the innocuous, almost daily epiphanies that seem to grace so many writers' lives!" Which immediately made me nervous, thinking of this innocuous little poem. Am I going soft? So your comment is well-timed and somewhat reassuring. Thanks! Funny, I just happened to reread this sentence of mine in the front matter of Shadow Cabinet: “If only I could write uplifting little poems about falling in love, or the innocuous, almost daily epiphanies that seem to grace so many writers’ lives!” Which immediately made me nervous, thinking of this innocuous little poem. Am I going soft? So your comment is well-timed and somewhat reassuring. Thanks!

]]> By: Teju http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/the-owl/#comment-3925 Teju Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:01:10 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/18/the-owl/#comment-3925 Dave, I really like this one. Naturally, I'm suspicious of the way it ends on an upbeat, but on rereading I'm convinced that the "happy" is well-earned. Well done, man. Dave, I really like this one. Naturally, I’m suspicious of the way it ends on an upbeat, but on rereading I’m convinced that the “happy” is well-earned. Well done, man.

]]> By: Dave http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/the-owl/#comment-3924 Dave Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:15:36 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/18/the-owl/#comment-3924 Glad you liked it. Thanks for stopping by. Glad you liked it. Thanks for stopping by.

]]> By: Vasha http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/the-owl/#comment-3923 Vasha Mon, 19 Mar 2007 00:20:42 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/2007/03/18/the-owl/#comment-3923 Quite lovely poem, thank you. I'm going to remember it. Quite lovely poem, thank you. I’m going to remember it.

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