February 2012
21 posts
But it's not over yet.
Alcove by John Ashbery
Is it possible that spring could be
once more approaching? We forget each time
what a mindless business it is, porous like sleep,
adrift on the horizon, refusing to take sides, "mugwump
of the final hour," lest an agenda—horrors!—be imputed to it,
and the whole point of its being spring collapse
like a hole dug in sand. It's breathy, though,
you have to say that for it.
And...
First things first.
This is the first thing by Philip Larkin
This is the first thing I have understood: Time is the echo of an axe Within a wood.
enthralling →
for Jules.
If the heart were pure enough/ but it is not pure
King of the River by Stanley Kunitz
If the water were clear enough, if the water were still, but the water is not clear, the water is not still, you would see yourself, slipped out of your skin, nosing upstream, slapping, thrashing, tumbling over the rocks till you paint them with your belly’s blood: Finned Ego, yard of muscle that coils, uncoils.
If the knowledge were given you, but it is...
“Woman-beating rage-broccoli Chris Brown lip-synced his single “Turn Up the...”
– SFJ
How to Be... →
a subset of this article is, “How to Get a Dramatic Show on TNT” (they do know Drama, after all!)…
-be in a law enforcement profession. Law enforcement profession is defined loosely…medical examiner…small claims court negotiator….divorce law arbitrator…
-be “sexy”…meaning wear skirt suits that are tight and have long, impossibly styled...
I think that you know why
Dead of Winter by Anthony Towne
The city shuffles through the snow, the whirling snow, and I, indifferent
To cold, remember how he looked, the casket much too small, the grief a
Discomfort buried under triumphs of survival- memories
Of snowdrifts hollowed out, as I am hollowed out, a snowman
A drift of words, iambic flights of migratory
Goodbyes, a dead-of-winter funeral, the earth
Too...
http://deadspin.com/5881337/feet-in-smoke-a-story-a... →
I’m reading Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan right now, and it is a) amazing and b) this has been my favorite essay so far.
