• Rimbaud

    By Steve Light

    In memory of Yves Bonnefoy (1923-2016)

    Poetry never stops
    Nor the proximities
    And affections
    Beneath the African distances
    Assumed and awakened
    By my anxious exuberance…

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    Lead image: Naoko Haruta, Life #107: ‘Africa #2’, acrylic on canvas, 43″ x 67″ [110cm x 170cm]

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    Steve Light, a basketball point guard following upon Nate Archibald, Pete Maravich, and Willie Somerset–and akin as well to Steve Nash, Chris Paul, Stephen Curry, and Earl Boykins–is also a philosopher and poet.