Month: October 2019

Sylvia Plath – Ariel

Fatima Azimova, Sea goddess, 2005 Stasis in darkness.  Then the substanceless blue  pour of tor and distances.  God’s lioness,  how one we grow, pivot of heels and knees!—The furrow  splits and passes, sister to  the brown arc  of the neck I cannot catch,  nigger-eye  berries cast dark  hooks –  Black sweet blood mouthfuls, shadows. Something …

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Stephane Mallarmè – Crushed by the overwhelming cloud

Paul Baudry, The pearl and the wave, 1862 Crushed by the overwhelming cloud  depth of basalt and lavas  by even the enslaved echoes  of a trumpet without power  what sepulchral shipwreck (you  know it, slobbering there, foam)  among hulks the supreme one flattened the naked mast too  or that which, furious mistake  of some noble …

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