In Diane di Prima's Poetry of a Song, City Lights, 1990, she searches for the meaningful, the hidden and unnoticed. She shows that poetry can be used as a vehicle to "extract the heart of things." Diane describes the hidden as the "white silence filling the contours of my life." I too recognize the white noise of life, the in-between spaces that make up our daily living. This space between the known and unknown, the knowing and not knowing. The existence of things larger than life or living, heard in the silence and known in the shadows between. Catching a thought and holding on to what we know in that moment! That's the challenge isn't it? . . . to wrestle with these moments to make it a part of who you are or understand yourself to be. According to an article written by Corey Seymour in the Vogue Magazine (October 7, 2020). Diane di Prima died at the age of 86. She was Poet Laureate of San Francisco and a co-founder of the New York Poets Theater. Diane was one of the very few women in the Beat Poetry movement.
Shadowleaves on Lake Ann 