Monday, March 01, 2021

Polar-iced Place

As Blumenberg might say, work on myth:

Polar Bears, Polar Bears

Polar bears are great monstrous big creatures,
but they don't really live at a pole,
for two great physical force features
result more in a petal-fugal hole.

Or an oblate spheroid called Terra,
spinning tales in the darkness around,
in a life-world we fear to call "Vera,"
where monsters like these bears abound.

And polar bears aren't the earth's only fierce creatures.

2 Comments:

At 6:11 PM, Blogger Kevin Kim said...

"Life-world."

Nice evocation of Husserl and Habermas.

 
At 8:01 PM, Blogger Horace Jeffery Hodges said...

Thanks. I've always liked that expression. One of the things I like about poetry, by the way, is that I can toss in all sorts of references and have them make sense even if contradictory.

Jeffery Hodges

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