Thomas Lynch
Thomas Lynch
bare believers compelling ethics fact matter sounds strikes true
It strikes me that after all the archbishops and politicos and true believers have their say on the ethics of the matter of euthanasia, bare fact sounds very compelling and very challenging.
corpse correct
It is not enough to be a corpse any more. Now, you have to be a politically correct corpse.
instinct
The instinct to preplan has been around for a long time.
effort language situation
So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.
life
Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
funerals interested mourning people
I'm more interested in the meaning of funerals and the mourning that people do. It's not a retail experience. It's an existential one.
eventually generally jump lazy means oriented task
I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.
itself pair shape takes
Usually a poem takes shape accoustically - a line or a pair of lines will repeat itself in my ear.