Neil Young
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National Poetry Month: “Powderfinger II”
Note: This is meant as a sequel to Neil Young’s song “Powderfinger,” written from the point of view of the gunboat. Powderfinger We were steaming up the big river the captain said that he had a fever and the humidity had him in thrall all because the rain refused to fall. Around the bend, the…
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National Poetry Month: “Neil Young Goes on a Trip”
Neil Young falls through a crack in the asphalt. It opens wider than a chasm. Each second he falls, time regresses. He sees the aperture of God’s eye experiences 10,000 lifetimes; some human some not. He dies and is reborn, ages and dies again. The infinity throws him up on a street somewhere in London,…
The Numinous Cosmos 