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lightraker · 7 years

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Albada: Pigeons on pink

To understand this poem I think you need to know two things.

Firstly Don Jose Ruiz y Blasco was the father of Pablo Picasso. He was himself an artist and taught art. He painted lots of pictures of pigeons. So much that he was known as “El palomero” (the pigeon fancier). Legend has it that he saw young Picasso drawing some pigeons and they were so much better than anything he ever did that he gave Pablo all his painting materials and never painted again.

Eric’s dad, the poet R F Langley, (I was going to say famous, but maybe admired is the better word), wrote a poem called Jack’s Pigeon. In that poem, a coffee bowl breaks and a pigeon “thuds to the gutter in convulsions”. Jack, who is, I’m bit nervous of defining what Jack is, I think he might be a kind of alter ego for R F, and maybe like a Jack the Lad or man of mischief. Jack sees the probably dead pigeon and checks his “scratchcard”. There are lots of Hamlet references in the poem. I’m thinking there’s a link to the line about “there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow”. Is God keeping an eye on even the smallest things?

Eric must have been pretty pleased with himself when he made this connection. He’s starting out as a poet, under his father’s shadow. His father wrote a poem about a pigeon. Picasso’s father painted pigeons until Picasso made a better version. Will Eric be Pablo to his father’s Don Jose? I think also, Don Jose’s pigeons look rather lovely. Eric seems to have specifically in mind the one that google throws up which is five pigeons on a pink background. You won’t be surprised that in the end, Eric/Pablo sees that his father’s stuff was better than his.

The Hamlet allusions also work brilliantly with this theme because of course Hamlet is all about a son and the ghost of his father.

Albada means a morning love song in Spanish. I didn’t know the word. But I do recognise Aubade, the French version. Eric says he’s riffing on a number of aubades / albadas in this poem but I can’t help you there. The only Aubade I know in any detail is the Philip Larkin poem. I wonder if there may be an allusion in the description of the blurry outlines in section 2, that become sharply defined in the last section, which remind me a bit of Larkin seeing the blurry outlines in his bedroom becoming sharper at the end. If so, there’s a hint about mortality and fears of death which would fit. Wikipedia tells me that Albada Finder is something in optics, which seems a nice link to themes of the collection.

Orpiment, masticot, Oker de Luce, lac of carmine are all painting materials. Don Jose in the morning is planning some painting.

“Rayleigh… Mei” this is something to do with scientific theories of how light scatters. Like me, you’ll presumably be cringing at the obvious error that the scientist Eric meant is Mie.

“Scumbles" - give a soft effect

“Envious” foreshadows how he’s going to feel about his son.

“civil” - this word sticks out to me. Does it mean polite, ordinary, from the city?

“Dimly” - keeping to the light.

“tender… extension” - Eric is obsessed with words with this root. It’s all to do with reaching out, connecting with another, making yourself vulnerable.

I think we can see that the dawn of the new day is mirroring the coming talent of his son.

“Maria” - is the name of Jose’s wife and Picasso’s mum.

“Jill” - this is the first inkling, I think, that the poem is alluding to Jack’s pigeon. Jill is Jack’s lady (of course).

“Croodling” isn’t this a great word! It means cooing.

“El Palomero” - the pigeon fancier. Apparently Spanish doesn’t have a different word for pigeon or dove. But Jose paints pigeons. However, Picasso as well as drawing pigeons has a famous painting much later in life of a dove of peace. And he called his daughter La Paloma which people seem to translate as “The Dove”. You can imagine she might have preferred it that way. I feel like there’s a lot going on with the idea that the workaday pigeon of the father becomes transformed into the symbolic, beautiful dove of the son.

“Spink” - brilliantly this word means “the cry of a finch”. I wonder how many other birds have a word just for their cry. Did Eric have a moment of serendipitous excitement when he found out it rhymed (hell, contained!) pink? Or did he know this all along?

Senna bush - my botany and the internet lets me down on the connotations of a senna bush, but there is one in “Jack’s Pigeon” by Langley senior, so we’re starting to get more references to that.

“Booby” - idiot, breasts, type of bird. (Also, tit!)

“Jug jug” is the noise a nightingale makes. Also, means breasts! Even I recognise this as a line in the Wasteland. But I’m not sure if it helps specifically to think of that poem, or just that both Eric and Eliot are referring to an earlier tradition of writing about nightingales going jug jug. Apparently it was big in the renaissance.

“full-throated.. god! o god!… shoot.. plum” Something something sex. Perhaps also a little Keats nod. In “Ode to a Nightingale” the bird sings with “full-throated ease”.

“Pomegranate tree” - this introduces, I think, a reference to the Song of Solomon. There’s something about Solomon and pomegranates. “My love, my dove, my fair…” is a quote from that.

“Ignition spark… apples’ pips”. Sex… babies.

“Piz piz” Apparently Picasso’s first words - short for “lapiz” - calling for a pencil. I hope you’re ready for some Freudian penis stuff. Father and son are going to be engaging in some willy waving.

“Pipion” - pigeon.  “Master at the Bellas Artes” - Jose’s job teaching art.

“Kids” childish / jokes.

“Plucks his nib” - masturbation / makes art. Who can tell the difference?

“Squab” - a young pigeon. The word is used in “Jack’s Pigeon”.

“real these really real pigeons” - it seems like we’re back to Zeuxis here. Picasso rivals Zeuxis’ achievement.

I’m not sure at what point we shift from Dad to Son. As of Section 5 we get first person not third. But this seems to be from the dad’s point of view. While I think by Section 7 we’re from the son’s. But I could be wrong.

“the shock that shook” - so this is the dad seeing his son is a better artist.

“Mummed me” - acted as me (mummer) / became my mum / shut me up.

“Barbels” - little beard hairs (on fish? - I got a bit confused by wikipedia here, do fish have beards? and I thought we were talking about pigeons). Anyway, appropriate for the developing youth.

“Crappers” - not sure about this. Is this just because pigeons do a lot of pooing?

“Jacobines” - Jacobins of course are the ruthless revolutionaries - is that the role the son takes? I’m not sure if there’s a reason it’s feminine plural. Obviously links us to Jack.

“gall-free” - I wondered if this removal of gall from the pigeons, suggested the transformation of pigeon to dove (symbolising peace)?

“cheaply” - what sound do birds make?

“blackjacked” - knocked out / gambled away / Jack is now Black.

“here come have them then” - this is when the dad gives away all his painting materials to his son.

“throbbing vanes” - “vane” is the flat part of a feather. It’s nice how the paint brush becomes like a wing - so that the young boy can take flight like the pigeons. This feels like an Icarus allusion. I’m not sure if it’s a direct quote from Ovid, but it sounds like the kind of thing you’d get in translations of Ovid. That’s another model for Father / Son relationships we’re presented with. Let’s hope Eric doesn’t get too carried away with his wings of poetry unlike his wise and crafty dad Daedalus. Also, masturbating.

“Big head” - the arrogance of Eric comparing himself to Picasso. And also, penis.

“Rachis” - stem of grass.

“Filoplume” - hair like feathers.

“Barbs” - suggesting insults / stings. Poor old dad.

“Erleben” - experience (German for having lived).

“Avitrol” a bird deterrent.

Section 6 describes favourably the early pigeon sketch by Picasso.

“Gutter” - this word crops up a couple of times. And strikingly near the end of the poem. A candle gutters meaning it goes out or is about to go out. Is Pablo a “gutter” because his dad is now “gutted”? And remember the pigeon in “Jack’s Pigeon” “thuds to the gutter”.

“This one’s for remembrance”. We’re now entering Hamlet rich territory. This line is from Ophelia. I feel like this marks the moment when the son/Eric/Pablo speaks. He’s remembering his dad. Who, like him, knew his Hamlet! (Ophelia’s the name of the pigeon who dies in “Jack’s Pigeon”).

“Old mole” is what Hamlet calls his father’s ghost.

“Sweet Lady” - “Sweet Lady Street” is where the pigeon dies in Jack’s Pigeon.

“Pau Gargallo” - sculpture friend of Picasso, art school in Barcelona.

“Wash Lane” - not sure of the relevance of this - it is a street in Birmingham sort of in the same part of Britain as where Eric grew up. But I’m probably missing something.

“Penfold” - I really really hope this is an allusion to Dangermouse’s helper. A keeper of pens, the tool the poet needs.

“where the two thousand sad souls go” - this is from Hamlet as he sees the army heading off for war - and Jack’s Pigeon has the bowl breaking like “twenty thousand souls”.

“Over-rounds” - this is something to do with gambling - and so I think is linking to Jack going to the betting shop.

“Polish day trip” - Hamlet reference - “Polack”. And in Jack’s Pigeon the coffee bowl called “Part of Poland”.

“eggshells” - Hamlet: “all that fortune, death and danger dare, Even for an eggshell”.

“Rosemary” - Ophelia gives this “for remembrance”.

“pyggion” - If you google this word, you get Eric’s poem and an academic book called “Bare Ruined Choirs” talking about the moat at Crowle. This seems like a cool coincidence. Shakespeare Sonnet talking about growing old. I think there’s something to do with language changing and in the next couplet we get squib instead of squab.

“An old man of Daulis”. Daulis is where Oedipus didn’t go to when he ended up killing Laius. So I think this is a reference to a key father / son rivalry. (Daulis is also where Tereus lived as in the Philomela, cutting out tongue, eating his own child, turning into a bird, Tereus, so maybe there’s a bird link too). But I think Eric is saying: I’m not killing my dad “this time”. It feels like we’ve got a long way into a poem about father/son rivalry without an Oedipus reference.

Pichon - Spanish for little pigeon

Pijon - French for pigeon.

Paloma - spanish dove / pigeon. I think again there’s something here about language changes, transitions between language like the transitions between generations.

“Haunts” - ghosts.

“How pale they glare” - Hamlet says of his dad’s ghost: “How pale he glares”.

“between the lines” - Looking for his father in his writings.

“street lamps, gas lamps” - again thinking of time passing.

“Clayton’s spirits” - I’ve come up a bit of a blank on what this means. Wikipedia has something about Clayton’s being Australian for fake.

Madeleine - think of Proust having his memory brought back.

“Reverbere” - French for streetlight. But also the idea of the memory reverberating.

“How strong is stillness?” - this quotes from RF Langley’s journal entry of April 1977. He talks about going to a church and the children playing, naming Ruth, Eric’s older sister. The line before is “Gestures of children must stay.”

“Conning” deceive or study carefully.

“Hundred good hellos” - this is a phrase from RF Langley’s poem “Il Redentore” which is a church Venice. I got excited by the thought that it sounds like the returner / reviens. But actually it’s Italian for Redeemer. But something about giving back, right? Giving back the paint brushes?

“Frame that”. Guilt. Painting. Setting.

“Attention… tentif” more of the ten…

“Complex feet” - is this a reference to Oedipus whose name means swollen foot? And has his own complex.

Towlines - a nautical rope.

“Pigeon-toed, dove-tailed”. This is clever, isn’t it!

“Da!” - dad, ta da! and maybe also Russian for Yes!

“Fetch” - bring back, grasp, trick, jerk off, resurrect.

“Mirrors… rage” - I can’t help but think of the rage of Caliban seeing himself in the mirror but that doesn’t seem very relevant here. Hamlet holds up a mirror. Eric reflects his dad. As a “compound compliment”.

“Bearded” - old men have beard, but also means “confronted”.

“Bound about” - jumping / tied up.

“Charged” - attacked, energised, accused.

“screwed in your bedclothes” - are we thinking of sex and Gertrude (Hamlet’s mum)?

“swipe” - rushing stroke / steal.

Here is where Eric / Pablo acknowledges the greater ability of his dad. “It’s all still yours, still yours to say”.

“Passing” - going by or pretending.

“Cyclist” - Eric rides a bike / he recycles poetry.

“Pillar” - a symbol of tradition? (Also penis).

“Well outlined” compare the blurred figure of the dad in the early dawn.

“plastic guttering” - see above. Dad becomes different parts of a building: chantlate- piece of wood holding rafters, in other words a protector. But also chant = sing and late = dead. “Flash line” - part of building or a fancy poem. “eavestrough” gutter.

“Bowl” now the broken bowl of Jack’s pigeon seems to be mended.

“Rings” - sounds out and comes round again.

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whispercampaign

https://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneywhispercampaign/

whispercampaign –

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whispering_campaign

What dad and johnny involvement point out is not just hypocrisy, but unwillingness to tell me about untrue statements made about me, by them and others. That is, that such statements are intentionally misleading and are made in such a way as to make those behind the statements unaccountable for them.

whisper campaign things I have heard - weed t-shirt guy in spk - says i party too much - didn't party at all - suggesting marajuana usage - and that he knew me, both untrue

note esp zeman links to spi - and leonard links to zeman - xa costello - ed smith - ken gray - belleville caths - same diocese - xa stl bommaritio caths - smarjesse caths - spitzer and slu - cellini - and note spkattys site spkgop site and carlson and kaiser sites

Over the years I have heard people say things about me. Everyone does. I have heard some pretty strange things and I have had things done to me that I can’t explain: things that shouldn’t be happening to me.

brian cross gay frame - coll dems 1995 - overheard while in same room

GU law student/ T-shirt guy - at school function, claiming I had addiction issues, implying we were friends when I didn't know him

Spd officer in thornton gas station spreading addiction rumor to emps

Pedophile frame involving internet and infants from uis roommate and hanson emp

Gay rumors from uis roommate while obviously not gay and with girlfriend

Comment by john Pennell while at 11th and s grand using the phrase “serial killer” regarding a claim of homicidal threats by me

heard about arson frame - ingrum - from someone else

heard about cocaine frame - hall - from someone

heard about shg trophies from someone else

heard about dog poisoning from someone else

and note generally - pain associated with specific times, ie. 4:20, 9:11 etc. and see pain associated with particular and auditory visual cues, ie red trucks, fire dept t-shirts - This isn't just my imagination. I've tried to keep notes of what has been happening around me for years and I still can't believe it. It's not coincidence because, often, just prior to an incident of pain, people do things to get my attention, ie loud exhaust, clearing one's throat, a particular noise or gesture, etc.

this has been going on a long time - a really long time - note esp uis roomate gay rumor while having a sleepover girlfriend, not just harmless mistake, things said to recruit people to harass me with chemical agents - pesticides - xa vigilantism - arson - addiction frame - homicidal threats frame - pedophilia - homosexuality - see items specifically plead in county complaint in 2006 at "docs" site

I’m not sure what I’ve done to deserve this – recently heard that maneuver enhancement brigade just likes to harass me as some kind of sport - find this difficult to believe - note old special ops guy is gone after lincoln cab post and kinzinger reference, however

I think a lot of the misinfo comes from people on computers claiming to be me. That's tough to prove. I think it's like the old political ploy of using a fake letterhead or stolen campaign stationery. It's all false attribution. I stand behind what I say. Everything I say has my name written all over it.

addiction – constant eye irritants – sleep deprivation - weed shirt guy comment – note esp usccb link – spritzer in stl – and spk – h&k reps usccb – note esp skylstadt timeline – see also mom as addiction frame cover – caths link - see "caths" site

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneystfrancis

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneyzeman

arson – English – ingrum

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneyenglish

radicalization – eastern philosophy – sd loft – vala – sci – h&k –

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneypattern

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneyeckufcwperrin

addiction – mcfadden job – parking cars –

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneymcfadden

and see gop ilga – wojcicki and shg – and uis links – lrscis

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneywojcicki

xa – lrscis – Albanese consulting – albx –

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneyalbx

gay – brian cross – coll dems – reinhart

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneygayrumorsbad

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneycollege

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneyreinhart

psychological – generally –

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneypsychological

pedophile – mohanty – hanson – pecori – 95 roomate –

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneypecori

pecori was longtime prez of ierc

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneyierc

homicidal threats frame – Pennell – uss Copeland – and in tx – monty and dallas arson frame – xa galv – deps – and see sites “texas” and “Galveston”

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneypasfield

talon – frame – airport – 183 security – redpath – xa royer as cifa – 233 – see also talon frame as specifically plead in county complaint at “docs” site – talon frame generally athttp://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneywalnut

royer as cifa – royer 233 – 333 – he is 233 cmdr – and cifa guy for spi – linked to cellini hotel

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaney333mp

continues out of state – Galveston - homicidal threats – tx – dallas arson –pennell - natl guard – dod - galv – usarec

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneygalveston

out of state - tx - tx security guards - paragon security – courthouse – LRS also has biz in tx – and hanson

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneycourthouse

xa ciber does port security in so tx –

http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneyspringfieldconsulting

out of state spk - ciber in mann hall – ing in spk – Mitchel jessen – sere – jpra – contractors - http://sites.google.com/site/dwdelaneyinginspk

Avitrol –

– who has pesticides - see also property mgmt - charles robbins - hardware - ace - noonan's -

wouldn’t the airport use avitrol to move birds away – as collision hazard –

Ans: probably

Note also GHS and dir ops - buses – neighborhood – siuc labor externship - adams family -

And see kaureuf – hovey – bhs – sorling – xa iasb - see esp hovey

Chatham buses – laidlaw/Rockford disp – liuna -

general note - re pesticides - chemical agents and avoidance of pain

they move me around with the toxins - that's how they set up the terr frame - xa "walnut" site - and timeline - they do it all day long - from one place to another - when a place gets too bad, it's time to go. When a town gets too bad to stay in, I try to go. Usually this has been like going from one frying pan into another frying pan - so to speak - it never works - note locations

Chatham school board members may consider pigeon problem tonight

State Journal-Register, The (Springfield, IL) - Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Author: DEBRA LANDIS CORRESPONDENT

CHATHAM - A potentially lethal bait is among options the Ball-Chatham Board of Education is expected to hear tonight for dealing with two dozen or more pigeons that have made parts of the roof and ledges at Glenwood High School their home. Foreign-languages teacher Jamie Altoff hopes, however, that research she's provided will convince School Superintendent Rich Voltz and the board to pursue other options. "Something needs to be done about the pigeons, but there are non-lethal alternatives," said Altoff, a member of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization. ...

The chemical Avitrol , applied to kernels of corn, can kill the birds, but more often causes such distress in them that they no longer want to stay in the area...

The Avitrol .com Web site says: " Avitrol is used as a chemical frightening agent to remove pest birds from a given location. Birds eating the treated bait will be affected in a manner that will artificially cause them to emit distress and alarm cries and visual displays used by their species. This will frighten the flock and cause them to leave the site."

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