Tommy Gabel - Black Me Out
As Auden observed of Yeats: “You were silly like us; your gift survived it all.”
s.s.e.b.: napowrimo #9: delilah
Hair like matted hives in a lion’s mane, his god had such ways
of setting men apart. So mammoth a man
slept on a herds-worth of sheepskin,
only then his face calm, washed in moonlight,
eyebrows thick as my fingers on his brow, lips
his only softness.
Who would befriend a man
who could…
The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me, and Why.
Denise Levertov, May 8th, 1970
Words created by Poe
According to the OED, other words Poe added to the English language include: belaud, bemirror, bullyism, circumgyratory, disenchain, elocutionary, elocutionize, Macauleyism, markedness, melodramatism, mispunctuate, multicolour, mystific, normality, overscore, paragraphism, pesty, phaseless,…
(via poetrysociety)
You won’t find a new country, won’t find another shore.
This city will always pursue you.
You’ll walk the same streets, grow old
in the same neighborhoods, turn gray in these same houses.
You’ll always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere:
there’s no ship for you, there’s no road.
Now that you’ve wasted your life here, in this small corner,
you’ve destroyed it everywhere in the world.
C. P Cavafy, from The City, translated by Edmund Keeley
Cavafy etching by David Hockney, 1967
