Monday, December 04, 2006
i just heard the news that kari edwards passed away last saturday, 2nd december. i'm so far away here, which adds to the shock. i hope for kari that the passing was easeful. i hope. yet words are too unwieldy in this moment with this news. nothing i can say feels suitable, meaningful. this is probably the moment when one should back off and say nothing instead of uttering what seems. but here i am trying to say.
it's about this, simply: kari was my good friend. i learned a lot from kari and benefited tremendously from kari's compassionate advice on many matters both poetic and personal. we were close correspondents over many important issues and for several years. i'm stunned that the world is suddenly without you, kari. that we will have to live without your especially strong and caring, emotive, evocative and provocative, politically committed care, your wit, your insightful intelligence, a unique poetic sensitivity always intent not only on being heard, but also on *listening*. kari, i'll miss you. although it is true that we cannot know of that which is forever (in physics, infinitude, matter recombining indefinitely . . . ), there is a sense that kari, the presence of kari, will nonetheless be missed forever, with the aspect of forever, where emotions are marks on the world. bless you, kari. we are all so fortunate to have known and to have shared in poetry with you.
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