Commentary on DeenPort Haiku
The war’s fourth birthday… Congratulations? ka-boom! (all predicitions true)… While some celebrate, others mourn, and others d…
(from The Nation, June 30, 2008 )
I sing to the last the equalities modern or old,
I sing the endless finales of things,
I say Nature continues, glory continues
I praise with electric voice,
For I do not see one imperfection in the universe,
And I do not see one cause or result lamentable at last in the universe.
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Walt Whiteman, Song at Sunset (Leaves of Grass)
(I’m sure one could find even more apt lines, but I said the Fatihah and opened his book at random and transcribe here what I found there)
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