Henry Gould
@henryghenrik.bsky.social
semi-good semi-gray poet. Born in Mpls, lived in RI 45 yrs, back home. New book, a Mississippi poem : GREEN RADIUS https://contubernalesbooks.com/green-radius1. Also : PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS https://contubernalesbooks.com/parmenides-in-minneapolis
I don't think so, though it sure feels that way sometimes.
Maybe I'm deluded, but I think the artist is driven by the desire to repay a debt to nature. Life – nature – gives the artist a wellspring of experience going way back.
Maybe I'm deluded, but I think the artist is driven by the desire to repay a debt to nature. Life – nature – gives the artist a wellspring of experience going way back.
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
I don't think so, though it sure feels that way sometimes.
Maybe I'm deluded, but I think the artist is driven by the desire to repay a debt to nature. Life – nature – gives the artist a wellspring of experience going way back.
Maybe I'm deluded, but I think the artist is driven by the desire to repay a debt to nature. Life – nature – gives the artist a wellspring of experience going way back.
The drummer boy in the mural "3rd Minnesota entering Little Rock", is my gr-gr-grandfather, William E. Hale (future MN Circuit Court judge). That's him in the photo, age 16, in Nashville, after battle of Shiloh.
November 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The drummer boy in the mural "3rd Minnesota entering Little Rock", is my gr-gr-grandfather, William E. Hale (future MN Circuit Court judge). That's him in the photo, age 16, in Nashville, after battle of Shiloh.
You can take him outta Jersey, but you can't take the Jersey outta nobody. Not gonna happen.
November 15, 2025 at 1:36 AM
You can take him outta Jersey, but you can't take the Jersey outta nobody. Not gonna happen.
Over the snowy ridge
the blackbirds clambered,
clamoring.
And I mumbled –
"6-7"
the blackbirds clambered,
clamoring.
And I mumbled –
"6-7"
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Over the snowy ridge
the blackbirds clambered,
clamoring.
And I mumbled –
"6-7"
the blackbirds clambered,
clamoring.
And I mumbled –
"6-7"
Maybe even the most ornery prophets & loner artists are in their heart of hearts seeking that supportive group & lively milieu (someday, somewhere, in this world or the next). (= joy, happiness)
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Maybe even the most ornery prophets & loner artists are in their heart of hearts seeking that supportive group & lively milieu (someday, somewhere, in this world or the next). (= joy, happiness)
You only have to let
the soft parade
down the cobblestones
under the bricks
the soft parade
down the cobblestones
under the bricks
November 13, 2025 at 10:04 PM
You only have to let
the soft parade
down the cobblestones
under the bricks
the soft parade
down the cobblestones
under the bricks
Thanks, Jordan. Feels like I'm walking blindfolded into the dark. It's a beautiful dynamic little church, but I'm very new there, and nobody's getting any younger (that's just one part of the challenge!)
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Thanks, Jordan. Feels like I'm walking blindfolded into the dark. It's a beautiful dynamic little church, but I'm very new there, and nobody's getting any younger (that's just one part of the challenge!)
That makes complete sense to me. And it's helpful. I just got chosen to be senior warden at a small Episcopalian & historical African-American church here. I am assigned to help make it grow. My thinking tends toward interfaith outreach & shared ethical response to current US political miasma.
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
That makes complete sense to me. And it's helpful. I just got chosen to be senior warden at a small Episcopalian & historical African-American church here. I am assigned to help make it grow. My thinking tends toward interfaith outreach & shared ethical response to current US political miasma.
Just to say, I also am totally uncertain about ultimate religious realities, and purposes, and the interpretations, decisions and commitments humanity comes to take, or not take, about them. Though I have my beliefs and theories and conjectures.
November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just to say, I also am totally uncertain about ultimate religious realities, and purposes, and the interpretations, decisions and commitments humanity comes to take, or not take, about them. Though I have my beliefs and theories and conjectures.
But that's partly what I mean. That seems to me a basic aspect of Herzl's project and what followed.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
But that's partly what I mean. That seems to me a basic aspect of Herzl's project and what followed.
Okay. Enlighten me, please.
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Okay. Enlighten me, please.
Isn't it an existential response to the long history of "othering" & antisemitism, culminating in 20th-century Nazi horrors? Combined with a hope or faith in the specific prophetic/divine promises? Kind of a symbiotic, deeply entwined thing there with historical Christianity & its culture/politics.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Isn't it an existential response to the long history of "othering" & antisemitism, culminating in 20th-century Nazi horrors? Combined with a hope or faith in the specific prophetic/divine promises? Kind of a symbiotic, deeply entwined thing there with historical Christianity & its culture/politics.