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One's brought home to the physical world again, its daily, relieving insistences.  So a life finds its company, always."</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Robert Creeley</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>"John Roche's  </I>On Conesus<I> traces for us a place he located in his life-journey where the mind's contours could fit, for him, with the spiritual contours of the land and water on which and near which he and his wife lived.  You can trust that vision.  Thus, the silent loss when a beloved cottonwood falls, the poem notes </I><I>it, and we can feel  its loss for all of eternity, as long as words stand black on white.   A pig farm mentioned in the </I>Maximus Poems<I> is long gone, but the poem remains. Long live the vision of Conesus."</I></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> Ed Sanders</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U>Short review of </U></A><A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U><I>On Conesus</I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U> </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U>by </U></A><A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U>Levi Asher on his</U></A><A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U><I> Literary Kicks</I></U></A><A HREF="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.jsp?tag=MoreReviewsDec2006" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.litkicks.com/BeatPages/msg.js"><U> Site</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> John Roche lives on Little Conesus Outlet Creek in the Ashantee Bridge/Littleville section of Avon, NY, and teaches at Rochester Institute of Technology.</div> <bR> <div> To contact John Roche - <A HREF="mailto:jfrgla@rit.edu" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:jfrgla@rit.edu"><U>jfrgla@rit.edu</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From the Book:</div> <bR> <div> <B>On Conesus</B></div> <bR> <div> wine glow of</div> <div> "Indian summer"</div> <div> afternoon</div> <div> no wine-dark sea</div> <div> but sparkling</div> <div> water and</div> <div> air that intoxicates</div> <div> --why "Indian"?</div> <div> autumnal images</div> <div> (even John Ford employed)</div> <div> Senecas once</div> <div> a lake rich with</div> <div> northern pike</div> <div> saltlicks</div> <div> wild ducks</div> <div> turtle stones</div> <div> longhouses on Conesus Creek</div> <div> (village of old Can-ne-hoot,  Chief Conesus in Hosmer's  <I>Yonnondio</I>)</div> <div> sheepberries</div> <div> beaver colonies before the hat fad</div> <div> fox</div> <div> bear</div> <div> panther</div> <div> wolf</div> <div> (Did Rushville's "Great Wolf Hunt" of 1811 reach here?)</div> <div> --reverie broken by jet ski--</div> <div> stillness returns</div> <div> even Thoreau had the railroad</div> <div> reverberations across his lake</div> <div> --whose lake?</div> <div> time</div> <div> aboriginal canoes</div> <div> time</div> <div> Mort Zuckerman bulldozers</div> <div> time</div> <div> Don Henley concerts</div> <div> time</div> <div> All-Aboard!</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Wellspring</B></div> <bR> <div> stream path</div> <div> from hill</div> <div> through our</div> <div> cellar</div> <div> surfacing</div> <div> on beach</div> <div> forms ice-</div> <div> banked</div> <div> river</div> <div> soon widens</div> <div> into bay</div> <div> as ice </div> <div> recedes</div> <bR> <div> we drank from this spring</div> <div> until January</div> <div> contractor</div> <div> broke concrete</div> <div> of driveway</div> <div> drilled frozen ground</div> <bR> <div> now we have </div> <div> chlorinated baths</div> <div> a mound of earth</div> <div> an eroding trench</div> <bR> <div> for fifty years</div> <div> people drank from the well-</div> <div> spring</div> <div> within this house</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Solar Returns</B></div> <bR> <div> Day-O!</div> <div> glistening</div> <div> island sun</div> <bR> <div> Take a Carnival Cruise</div> <div> in my li'l rowboat</div> <div> but it's 40°F.</div> <div> and the boat leaks</div> <bR> <div> Van Morrison</div> <div> on the box</div> <div> "Too Long in Exile"</div> <div> and</div> <div> "Til We Get the Healing Done"</div> <div> for now</div> <div> thankful</div> <div> for a wee bit</div> <div> o' sun</div> <div> after yesterday's</div> <div> 1st snow</div> <div> that stuck</div> <div> barely broke 30°</div> <div> two layers</div> <div> of socks</div> <div> two sweaters</div> <div> in the house</div> <div> burning fossils</div> <div> eating carbs</div> <bR> <div> That old cave mentality</div> <div> returns</div> <div> almost enough</div> <div> to make one</div> <div> a Republican</div> <bR> <bR> <div> ISBN 0-941053-57-1</div> <bR> <div> <B>On Conesus</B> is a 96 page hand-sewn paperback with flat spine - 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