by Jack Ramey | Aug 15, 2015 | Art, Jack Ramey, plato, Poetry
I The gods are far too literal minded : Ithmonike of Pellene pregnant for three entire years after imploring the god Asklepios at Epidaurus. You silly woman, he said upon her return, why did you not say you wanted to give birth? II Fingernail-clipping moon...
by Jack Ramey | May 12, 2015 | Art, Jack Ramey, plato, Poetry
The last few bars of Mysticali Rose drifting down the street mixt with dust and rolling mesquite the beat lingering there in that corner where heat gathers itself up into a knot of tangled memories and squats in a heap of rags and print and sighs out loud for...
by Jack Ramey | Apr 27, 2015 | Art, Jack Ramey, plato, Poetry
XXVII Simonides of Keos inventor of the art of memory said that painting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks. He knew the true poet’s wish: to make a poem whose images speak to so many people that its words live on forever. But forever is much...
