my heart gets lost

Earlier today, on my timeline:

Words to live by. http://t.co/L76isdA9p9 via @youtube

— Kate W. (@historiated) June 20, 2015

It doesn't take much to send me down memory's rabbit holes. The dancing at the end of the Taylor Swift video reminded me of "Toi + Moi" ...

"Grégoire - Toi + Moi (My Major Company)" (Watch on YouTube)

... which in turn reminded me of Gregoire's "Ta Main," which, after all these years, I still find arresting. So much story within two people standing still for four minutes:

"Grégoire - Ta main (Clip Officiel)" (Watch on YouTube)

[English translation here]

Swift's deliberately imperfect dancing also reminded me of Danse, with its take on the ballerina out of sync with the corps, the trader who at the start seems destined for corporate security... [lyrics]

"A Letter to John Donne" [audio]

As I have indicated here before, C. H. Sisson's "Letter to John Donne" is a poem that is not in sync with my personal theology, and yet it grabs me by the collar whenever I revisit it. I happened to peer into my copy of Foster and Guthrie last night for something else, and ended up reading the Sisson aloud to myself.

And so, here is what a youngish Southern U.S. woman sounds like communing with the words of a Tory Anglican from a couple of generations ago:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0_yyKHZ5VqBdGQwUHFsQk9Ecm8/view?usp=sharing

And this link will take you to a recording by Sisson himself:

http://www.poetryarchive.org/poet/c-h-sisson

(Both the reading and writing keep hopscotching up the to-do queue. Ars longa, verse the twenty-first...)