I
found thee in a foundry, dark and set for allegory,
filled with hammers, forges, catwalks, carts, and slag, piled storey after storey,
found the ever-looping dart-ridden circuit, where we—
where we were not meant to wander in,
where I found thee, and friends and kin,
fighting and fleeing some forces
for something that I can't remember,
and at the shutting down at the end of the time,
I was sitting on a rail with somebody pale and strawberry blonde,
the color of which was a match with the sky
as the sun imperceptibly dawned.
Pieces of everyone reformed and we greeted
each other and I recognized your name and didn't want to let you go but
the world is over.
I have run this weblog for a few of months now without really putting myself into the content directly, but unfortunately for the—I might think—elegant idea of a weblog comprised only of poems, I simply need more opportunity for self-expression; or else, why journal?
Besides which, the fiscal reality is that the rate at which I publish poems does not really correspond to a rate of publication of posts suitable for sufficient levels of traffic to maintain a website. Although it’s not like diluting the focus of this website will help.
So. Hello! My name is Homer. My father named me after the blind poet of antiquity and legend, but unlike my namesake I am not, in the strictest and mundanest sense, blind, but like him (or her, or them…) I do make poetry, or at least attempt to be poetic; hence part of the title of this website, and indeed the website itself. In fact, the old title was “Sighted Poet”, further alluding to Homer, but that seemed far too impious. Plus it was ambiguous in pronunciation–it could have been “Cited” or “Sited” just as easily!
Hopefully the new name will also lead to changes inside the author, in some mystic way. How much more of the melancholy can you have than “Sighted Poet”? Come on!
Please consider emailing me; when there is time, I love to correspond! I know that the common practice nowadays with weblogging is comments, but I just feel uncomfortable with them. I am sorry.
That is all I have by way of cursory introductory remarks… perhaps a more comprehensive introduction will be forthcoming.