No mind is restricted to the here and now. New possibilities are everywhere. Yet all of this potential becomes a clutter if one does not have a leprechaun to enlarge ones perspective.
Artists have always faced critics but barbarians are a different matter. The definition keeps changing from hoards of invaders to public opinion, to children, to even ones own traditions.
A poet's Wunderkammer is a curio cabinet of objects conferring poetry through a person's eyes. Things that made words
stand up and take notice. And placed
there after in this small setting to evoke
the pleasures of one's life. . .
Crossing a Stream is serious business that takes a Realist with imagination and a sense of humor. Not so very different from the rest of the decisions we have to make.
In the aftermath of an historical
event there are always unanswered
questions but not impenetrable ones
if you believe in ghosts. Ghosts,
themselves, are a difficult question,
however.