tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post437638157375333399..comments2024-03-22T21:02:55.051+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: Home/Not HomeGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-83287801606860862092009-10-05T20:50:46.504+13:002009-10-05T20:50:46.504+13:00"Look back harder" was the title of Pete..."Look back harder" was the title of Peter Simpson's edition of <a href="http://openlibrary.org/b/OL21562498M/Look_back_harder" rel="nofollow">Curnow's collected essays</a>. I lifted it for your story because it seems to me that the kind of bi-cultural (emotional) habitation to which your post speaks was something that haunted, in the negative, the first wave of cultural Megan Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584562106579704547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-27956761503522889782009-10-05T20:46:09.075+13:002009-10-05T20:46:09.075+13:00Lady, if I looked back any harder I'd seriousl...Lady, if I looked back any harder I'd seriously stuff my neck.<br /><br />It's very suggestively put. And the bit about the dust... are you sure you haven't been to the house? Plus it's been 25 degrees and sunny for the whole two weeks, it's like the weather in Google Streetview. I'm beginning to freak out, just a little bit.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-23691063431681252412009-10-05T20:19:26.054+13:002009-10-05T20:19:26.054+13:00look back harder
through emptied spaces
no force o...look back harder<br />through emptied spaces<br />no force of hindsight <br />can move the dust motes<br />indefinite shadows<br />the plants' life cycles<br />our words exhaled<br />the leaves sucked in.Megan Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584562106579704547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-590055536179593552009-10-04T21:19:28.691+13:002009-10-04T21:19:28.691+13:00Home for me has been the homes of my parents' ...<i>Home for me has been the homes of my parents' parents, though neither has been a dwelling.</i><br /><br />Home doesn't have to be a place, or when it's a place maybe it's a place at a particular time, so that when you visit it later it has lost whatever it was that made it home - which is quite possibly what I'm finding now. Ultimately, though, for the most part it's Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-2036320482541772212009-10-03T11:19:21.237+13:002009-10-03T11:19:21.237+13:00I liked this post.
Home for me has been the home...I liked this post.<br /><br />Home for me has been the homes of my parents' parents, though neither has been a dwelling. My own parents moved around but the grandparents always represented that stability, especially my mother's mother who lives on a farm in the house her father built and can tell me who planted the trees in the garden ("those gum trees were planted by my katyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15742280289613450293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-84248601226237236942009-10-01T00:11:40.661+13:002009-10-01T00:11:40.661+13:00I have no doubt that it will, but you're right...I have no doubt that it will, but you're right, it's the exact opposite of what happened at our place!Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-59501404160395107922009-09-30T03:48:02.732+13:002009-09-30T03:48:02.732+13:00And I am about to have a kind of opposite issue. ...And I am about to have a kind of opposite issue. As you know my Mother died last month. Because of this my husband and I (and our soon to be two children) will be moving from the home where I have lived for 14 years and my husband has lived for 10 years into the apartment which I grew up in and which we moved into when I was 4.<br /><br />But my father's requirement includes completely Grunthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03308246886810700890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-36363079586598166632009-09-29T19:28:13.922+13:002009-09-29T19:28:13.922+13:00To make things worse, the removal of the dragon-tr...To make things worse, the removal of the dragon-tree on the left and the rearranging of the books are both quite recent events.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-51443143065218777072009-09-29T14:24:28.864+13:002009-09-29T14:24:28.864+13:00My house
is small
ghosts dance
within.
From View...My house <br />is small<br />ghosts dance<br />within.<br /><br />From View, Mercurius, Poems On Change & Union.<br /><br />Those 2 photos, 1975 and now, awe...I like the view through the far right-hand window and how the book order on the shelf has changed but the pot-plants remain.<br /><br />wordverf; xicsn...unspeakable surgical term.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-42672747179622592952009-09-29T06:01:16.523+13:002009-09-29T06:01:16.523+13:00Di sent me here.
The older I get, the more I find...Di sent me here.<br /><br />The older I get, the more I find I have lost my sense of place, and I'm surprised to find how little I mind that.V-Grrrl @ Compost Studioshttp://www.v-grrrl.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-90457834930730306012009-09-29T04:52:58.868+13:002009-09-29T04:52:58.868+13:00I found this just as I had to go out and I was tor...I found this just as I had to go out and I was torn for a moment, as if I might not find the post again and I knew it was important I read it because somehow I knew you would capture something I have struggled to define, understand and explain in the past.<br /><br />In some ways I envy your (almost) unbroken relationship with the past of your childhood. My mother died and eventually my father Di Mackeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00273089782589416134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-21672842259199658032009-09-29T03:38:27.733+13:002009-09-29T03:38:27.733+13:00The television screen appears to have got smaller ...The television screen appears to have got <i>smaller</i> since 1975. This is sheer perversity.<br /><br />When people ask if I'm going away for my holidays, and I say I'm just going home, they always seem to assume that I'm going to the ancestral seat rather than to the place where I live with my books. This has always struck me as somewhat bizarre, but as usual I'm unable to Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.com