Showing posts with label keats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label keats. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

At Keats' house


Here we are, in separate photographs, at Keats' House. Jami, beautiful and witty, looks directly into the camera; I, pensive, my scarf draped along my belly, gaze across the yard. Jami wrote about salad and bird poo recently; I don't have any material like that - but it doesn't sound very Keatsian: salad and poo - saladpoo might be an organic hair product. There is a Seinfeld where Kramer prepares a salad while taking a shower. He tells Elaine just as she's biting into some lettuce. Wonderful moment.
Keats' house is a wonderful place, right across from the Heath. Inside artifacts remain from the famous poet. Among the papers I saw, a bad debt from betting at the track, a certain amount owed on Melancholy, a horse that had not done so well.
I love you honey.

Friday, May 18, 2007

From our honeymoon




We stopped at a pub in Hampstead after clamboring about the Heath and had some of the local ale. Jami, elegant in the first frame, watches me as she drinks her pint; I, perhaps a bit winded from walking around the Heath's slick muddy fields and grass, am a bit blurry at first, but after my first sip, I've become solid and in focus again. It's a wonderful beer that restores vertical hold to the world. Yet here I am, now, all concrete and defined, and I've continued to be concrete and defined since. Was this some magic potion that I imbibed that day? Sure. Here's what I think happened. When we visited Keat's house earlier in the day, I noticed in the hutch that one of the glasses was missing. I think that the glass I'm holding right now is that glass. Am I implying that this glass, if it were that glass, has some kind of magical property? Maybe. Let's look at the facts. ******************************************************************* If that doesn't satisfy a critical inquiry I don't know what will.