Wanderer above the Sea of Fog The solitary man, back to the world, a Rücksfigur in Romantic stance, in his green-black frock mourning coat, against a slender cane, a walking stick, above the fog of empires, the sun obscured by enigma, the total thing to ask, what was ever here but loneliness and longing in the sum of a single mood, a soul’s speech. ** A Line From Goethe In another epoch, the fog lifted for a moment or for ten, unclothing the Romantic spring mallow, the blue mallow, blue like the buttonhole flower in the felt lapel of Novalis or Mann, among gold mallow and blood mallow now in this morning for a moment or for ten, O Goethe, Ich habe dein hertz! Michael Gessner Michael Gessner has authored 14 books of poetry and prose. His work has been included in American Letters & Commentary, American Literary Review, The French Literary Review, Journal of the American Medical Society, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Oxford Review (UK,) Pacific Review, Sycamore Review, The Yale Journal of Humanities and others. He is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle.
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