Saturday, January 31, 2009
Baltimore Sun interview with Elizabeth Alexander, on her inaugural poem “Praise Song for the Day.”
Saturday, January 31, 2009
On murder in the first degree The Law, I knew, is rigid: Its attitude, if A kills B, To A is always frigid. …Nevertheless, I deemed it best And in the public interest To buy a gun, to oil it well, Inserting what is called a shell, And go and pot With sudden shot This [...]
Where the bee sucks, there suck I: In a cowslip’s bell I lie; There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat’s back I do fly. After summer merrily: Merrily, merrily, shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Before my trauma event I lived with Joyce and her cat Reggae in Joyce’s apartment on the first floor of a five-story building on East Twelfth Street in Manhattan. The apartment has one bedroom and a small deck in back where we sat and did the crossword puzzle on Sunday mornings although sometimes we stayed [...]
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
The Sky is low — the Clouds are mean. A Travelling Flake of Snow Across a Barn or through a Rut Debates if it will go — A Narrow Wind complains all Day How some one treated him Nature, like Us is sometimes caught Without her Diadem.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Do they matter?—those dreams from the pit?… You can drink and forget and be glad, And people won’t say that you’re mad; For they’ll know you’ve fought for your country And no one will worry a bit. – From “Does it Matter?” by Siegfried Sassoon
The Telegraph has a list of 100 novels everyone should read: I’ve read 36 of them. The Guardian apparently has a list of science fiction and fantasy books to read, which is listed all over the place as it’s become a meme; I got it here and have read 54 of the 150 or so [...]
Extreme underwater ironing. (via)
A tall one I know at the end of a hallway broods in shadows and is watching booze eat out the insides of the man of the house; it has seen five hopes go in five years: one woman, one child, and three dreams. – From Carl Sandburg’s “Clocks“
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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