Mind over body or body over mind? An age-old question, revisited through a discussion of some photos of readers and bicyclists in Central Park, Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, and the Coen brother's dark comedy, "Barton Fink." Read and see more about it at today's blogpost, blog.amynelsonhahn.info
Bartleby at noon
Seeing them angle past --
the trim, corpuscular forms
of women, men
lean with vim en bicyclette --
they are leaning far too close.
And the bend of the spine
in this book will not accommodate
their passage any nearer.
How can this be any more than clear?
Can a person be let alone
to enjoy a simple read,
a glance along a page or two
before the world intrudes?
That's all we ask, you know --
the microcosm
in which brain and text
voluminate
and beat like rapid hearts
flora and fauna
inviolate.
Copyright (c) 2011 Amy Nelson Hahn
view with images 1935, 1918, 1920 and 1934 from photos.amynelsonhahn.info or visit blog.amynelsonhahn.info
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