There's a place between desire and memory, some back porch … - Don McKay

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There's a place between desire and memory, some back porch
we can neither wish nor recall

Don McKay

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Don McKay, CM (born 1942) is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator.

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We inflict our rage for immortality on things, marooning them on static islands.

The meditative approach acknowledges that one moment will inevitably lead on to the next. We accept immortality instead of fighting it off.

Phenomenology is one name for the path back from the object to the thing, the counterbalance to the objectification or 'progress'.Poetry is another.

There's a place between desire and memory, some back porch we can neither wish nor recall - Don McKay

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