The purpose of this writing is to pluck the fruit. Les fruits. Des fruits. Fru-its. Leave me alone, Nietzsche, your aphorisms telling me one way, then the next, your contradictory sentiments, your unphilosophical philosophy, your hardness, which I love too well. I gave my hardness to a bourgeois boy with a doctor wife. Do all [...]
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Poem of the Day: The Purpose of this Writing is to Pluck the Fruit
Posted in alvarez, life, nina, philosophy, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, Write, Writer, writing on 02/26/2008 | 1 Comment »
Poem of the Day: A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts
Posted in king, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, rabbit, stevens, wallace, Write, Writer, writing on 02/09/2008 | 1 Comment »
A Rabbit As King Of The Ghosts The difficulty to think at the end of day, When the shapeless shadow covers the sun And nothing is left except light on your fur— There was the cat slopping its milk all day, Fat cat, red tongue, green mind, white milk And August the most peaceful month. [...]
Poem of the Day: Far Company
Posted in merwin, poem, poem of the day, poet, poetry, w.s. merwin, Write, Writer, writing on 02/07/2008 | Leave a Comment »
Thanks Paul, for this suggestion! Far Company At times now from some margin of the day I can hear birds of another country not the whole song but a brief phrase of it out of a music that I may have heard once in a moment I appear to have forgotten for the most part [...]
Video Prose: The Stranger
Posted in prose, the stranger, Video on 02/02/2008 | Leave a Comment »
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