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I've lived in Elmira, New York all my life except for four years in Shipley school and time traveling. I attended Elmira College three years and then married Bela Tifft. We have three sons, three daughter-in-laws and three grandchildren . I have been a tourist in Europe for quite long times and have traveled a little in Asia and Africa. |
A few times in my life I have felt the top of the sky or theater move up, open. For that second or moment I have sensed that a strange power exists about which I know nothing except it is vast. That moment has come duing a few walks, hearing Dylan Thomas and watching certain Chekov and O'Casey plays, hearing Gertrude Stein when I was a child, hearing Robert Frost, and once when looking at a painting of Mata.
I like days better if I work with words. I want my word workings to have the feeling of strange otherness; maybe as if in Italy you walked past a Trattoria on a hot night or you walk near a Greek Cafe or you sat on the island of Patmos, your feet in the edge of the sea, and you could look at and feel the harbor and the mountain. And something went by, maybe a donkey with a sheep strapped to its back. I want my workings to have an ache, a recognition of something never quite known but felt.