Sorry for the late post yesterday. Life gets away from you, sometimes, no? I have spent the morning scanning images from a book I made at Anna Tomczak's house that she wants to use in a seminar she is doing tomorrow at FotoFusion in south Florida. I haven't looked at the book since I did it. I remember being disappointed in it and thought of it as an experiment. I had already worked the images up once into a romantic version of a China that didn't exist when I went there a couple of years ago. But when I went back and began scanning, I found some charm in the images. I may try that again sometime. I'll post a few here for your discrimination.
I want to get back to writing the vignettes, but something has happened and I've lost something important, some ingredient, that was keeping it all going. I hope I find it again, soon. At present, though, there seems to be little but the frustration of Adam's Curse, though there are others, too.
Fan-Tan. No one can write a novel like that again. I must have been drunk to put that on my blog.
and drunk is a bad thing? love the transfers!
ReplyDeleteYou're so lucky to have travelled to so many great places.
ReplyDeleteGood on you, C.S. China Book looks authentic.
ReplyDeleteSo, I haven't written a poem in eons. But your mention of Mr. Yeats did something so -- here, it's a metapoem but can be used also as a metadrama or metashorttory or metatblog.
“Better go down upon your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together
Is to work harder than all these..."
WBY, Adam's Curse
In cold Absyssinia
I'm picking through this graveyard sniffing
for Frank Stanford
but the ice is too thick
bang! bang! bang!
to the heart. I want a piece
of that stained shirt for a bookmark.
Frank-you-swamprat-Rimbaud
cut your eyeteeth on fly shit
fuck you
3 shots to the heart
and that warm blood
would sure as hell melt
this contemporary permafrost:
beatrice on speed sweeping snow in her housecoat.
Being drunk is NOT a bad thing. It is always what remains that is the problem.
ReplyDeleteI've spent all my money going places and chasing after things. It has been worthwhile.
Yes, "articulating sweet sounds" is hard work, but not like working in the fields at this age for too many hours a day. But then again, Adam's Curse is remedied not by anything but how we feel about the captivity.
Selah.
...please where can I buy a unicorn?
ReplyDeleteAt the unicorn store, silly.
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