{"id":10902,"date":"2022-07-09T00:44:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T07:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/?p=10902"},"modified":"2022-07-15T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T00:40:42","slug":"d-r-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/d-r-james\/","title":{"rendered":"D. R. James"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D.-R.-James-2022-color-804x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10903\" width=\"603\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D.-R.-James-2022-color-804x1024.jpg 804w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D.-R.-James-2022-color-236x300.jpg 236w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D.-R.-James-2022-color-768x978.jpg 768w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D.-R.-James-2022-color-118x150.jpg 118w, http:\/\/lifeandlegends.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D.-R.-James-2022-color.jpg 953w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 603px) 100vw, 603px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n<p><strong>How the Fog Can Matter<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff; font-size: revert; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mid-day, a slightest shivering mist<br \/>but still the sun<br \/>staring over your shoulder,<br \/>those wisps stealing<br \/>across peripheral fields<br \/>like several clever students late for class.<\/p>\n<p>The professor with the leathery lips<br \/>perched in the cottonwood<br \/>that commands the nearby hillside<br \/>blows his smoke<br \/>to remind you of all those<br \/>variously true theologies.<\/p>\n<p>A cedar-sided shack<br \/>two hundred yards beyond the rusted yew<br \/>comes and goes, now sharp, now<br \/>fading, floating<br \/>among the dunes, on grass<br \/>and breeze, perpetually<br \/>tipping its shabby hat, polite<br \/>and stiffened to stretches of sand,<br \/>to the breakers barely emerging<br \/>from the fog.<\/p>\n<p>And whether you sit here making<br \/>something of this or not\u2014<br \/>whether you care or not, it appears<br \/>you\u2019ve cared, and there<br \/>it is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Resignation<\/strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>When I suddenly knew to look up<br \/>and away, to let new foundations<br \/>float for fundamentals, I could see<\/p>\n<p>that if the swallowtail\u2019s paper force<br \/>could slice upwind along a dancing lake,<br \/>and if it carried on, carrying on, content\u2014<\/p>\n<p>then the syllogism could hold me, too:<br \/>our sentence looms lighter than air.<br \/>Now, when long grasses shimmer<\/p>\n<p>in the clearest light, I imagine as much<br \/>among the roots, their loving work<br \/>of hugging dune snugged to shore,<\/p>\n<p>of fingering it into woods\u2014until<br \/>that assignation should change,<br \/>another shape configured, as if<\/p>\n<p>the dunescape were shifting vaguely<br \/>on her divan, merely relieving a dreamy ache<br \/>in the contours of her hips and thighs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>BIO: D. R. James\u2019s latest of ten collections are <em>Mobius Trip<\/em> and <em>Flip Requiem<\/em> (Dos Madres Press, 2021, 2020), and his prose and poems have appeared in a wide variety of anthologies and journals. 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