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Cavafy’s Slight Angle to the Universe
“…a Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely
motionless
at a slight angle to
the universe.”
-C. S. Forster re C. P. Cavafy, quoted
by Daniel Mendelsohn in
C. P. Cavafy: Poems, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
Maybe
Cavafy stands at an angle to the world
The universe presumably
built aright
In order serviceable, as
Milton says,
All of creation as a liturgy
We all stand at an angle
to the world
Which wobbles in its orbit
more than it ought
We altar servers tripping
more than we ought
When we forget the angle
of Consecration
Oh, yes, Cavafy stands at
an angle to the world
And he is right to do so –
and so
are we
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