Meanjin 80.4 poem 1 Dec Written By Todd Turner Fighting Terms Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? —John KeatsIn the first instance,describe the conversation you had.Not the one about negative capabilitybut how we’re never quite prepared for life. How it’s always thrust upon us,churning us in its wheeling clock.That’s why there’s wisdom in keeping those you love at arm’s length, till they end up in your arms.Whenever things became hard to bear,J. reduced weeks to days, days/hours, hours/minutes.And when the minute was broken into blocks of tens,‘We cannot be created for this sort of suffering’, he said.There are those who hardly think of poetry as work,and those who think there is no play in the ache of alms and song. Todd Turner
Meanjin 80.4 poem 1 Dec Written By Todd Turner Fighting Terms Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul? —John KeatsIn the first instance,describe the conversation you had.Not the one about negative capabilitybut how we’re never quite prepared for life. How it’s always thrust upon us,churning us in its wheeling clock.That’s why there’s wisdom in keeping those you love at arm’s length, till they end up in your arms.Whenever things became hard to bear,J. reduced weeks to days, days/hours, hours/minutes.And when the minute was broken into blocks of tens,‘We cannot be created for this sort of suffering’, he said.There are those who hardly think of poetry as work,and those who think there is no play in the ache of alms and song. Todd Turner
