I've presumed to assemble an homage in that form -- as seen at the above tweet.
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Enjoyed your chapbook (arrived today) -- it somewhat carried me back to Merwin's Finding the Islands (1982), but is of course unique. In recent times, I've mainly been writing in the rispetto (eight line) form & sometimes quote or draw from others' texts.

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🔹Riffing on a Dillard bluism

Writing's been Jerry-rigged
Jerry's out? Judge is wigged
lacking a wig no judgement
lacking a Jerry no nudgement

(Rather new to much activity on BlueSky -- the character limit here dissuades me from my customary 8-line response; which instead I've posted X-wise & can android screen-grab thus)

cc: @mayacpopa.bsky.social

A responsive stanza

Evidently still just on Twitter

My reply

I understand that a ghost exists only for a limited amount of time, before the soul involved takes another incarnation. Basically, methinks the same principle would apply to pre-human evolutionary forms too.

Hey -- just thinking this through.

Well I mean, I think it was Phil Glass & his Ensemble plus members of the orchestra.

I'm pretty sure it was the New York Philharmonic who performed it when I heard it, prob 20-25 years ago. Made a strong impression. It's interesting that I believe he wrote that first, before going very far into the whole Opera thing.

we imagine naught but needs | a fleet apercu
I love the feeling of adages | though the smell
of napalm in the morning | can't bode well
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