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// a collection of liked things // church of despair // claire cronin //
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(Source: lunacocoona)
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THE FOUNDRY GARDEN
by Stanley Plumly
Myths of the landscape -
the sun going down in the mouths of the furnaces,
the fires banked and cooling, ticking into dark, here and there the sudden flaring into roses,
then the light across the long factory of the field, the split and rusted castings,
across the low slant tin roofs of the buildings, across fallow and tar and burnt potato ground…
Everything a little still on fire, in sunlight, then smoke, then cinder,
then the milling back to earth, rich earth, the silica of ash.
The times I can taste the iron in the air, the gray wash like exhaust, smell the burn- off,
my eyes begin to tear, and I’m leaning against a wall, short of breath,
my heart as large as my father’s, alone in such poverty my body scars the light.
Arable fields, waste and stony places, waysides -
the day he got the job at the Wellbaum and Company Foundry he wept,
and later, in the truck, pulled the plug on a bottle.
In the metallurgy of ore and coal and limestone, in the conversion of the green world to gray,
in the face of the blue-white fires, I remember the fencerow, the white camppion,
calyx and coronal scales, the hawthorns, cut to the size of hedge,
the haws so deep in the blood of the season they bled.
The year we were poor enough to dig potatoes we had to drive there,
then wait for the men to leave who let fires go out.
There’d be one good hour of daylight, the rough straight rows running into shade.
We’d work the ground until the sun was a single line.
I can see my father, now cut in half by the horizon, coming toward me, both arms weighted down.
I can see him bending over, gone.
Later, in the summer, I’d have painted the dead rust undulant sides of all the buildings aluminum,
which in the morning threw a glare like water on the garden. -
Hat acolaþ, hwit asolaþ,
leof alaþaþ, leoht aþystraþ.
Æghwæt forealdaþ þæs þe ece ne byþ.
(Heat grows cold, white becomes dirty, the beloved becomes hated, light becomes dark. Everything which is not eternal decays with age.)
(via oldenglishwithmaria)
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84. In a maiden’s words no one should place faith, nor in what a woman says; for on a turning wheel have their hearts been formed, and guile in their breasts been laid;
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90. Such is the love of women, who falsehood mediate, as if one drove not roughshod, on slippery ice, a spirited two-years old and unbroken horse; or as in a raging storm a helmless ship is beaten; or as if the halt were set to catch a reindeer in the thawing fell.
- The Poetic Edda
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(Source: gothicrealm, via bloodmilk)
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John Kelsey, Depesrsion, Impoetnce, 2012.
Kelsey repurposed found language from spam emails for these “poems,” which he presents on paper featuring the old Whitney Museum insignia, the eagle. The lists of names indicate the emails’ senders, the titles are drawn from the subject lines, and the “stanzas” consist of the seemingly random, cut and pasted content of the messages.
Bottom right photograph by Tyko
(via poetrysociety)
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mourning as resistance
“History is eliminated in oneself and others out of a fear that it may remind the individual of the degeneration of his own existence - which itself continues.
The respect for something which has no market value and runs contrary to all feelings is experienced most sharply by the person in mourning, in whose case not even the psychological restoration of labor power is possible.
It becomes a wound in civilization, asocial sentimentality, showing that it has still not been possible to compel men to indulge solely in purposeful behavior.”- Horkheimer/Adorno -
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“At this point the plague has not yet arrived in London, but rumors of its impending arrival are circulating. The most superstitious forms of oral street culture appear to flourish… Religious enthusiasts ‘run about the Streets, with their Oral Predictions, and mountebanks and quack doctors hawk magical remedies.
These retailers of superstitious orality are not merely foolish but villainous: ‘Oracles of the Devil’ who ‘bewitch’d the poor common People’…
The ‘common people’ run about ‘to Fortune tellers, Cunning-men, and Astrologers, to know their Fortune, or, as ‘tis vulgarly express’d, to have their Fortunes told them.”
- Paula McDowell, “Defoe and the Contagion of the Oral: Modeling Media Shift in ‘A Journal of the Plague Year’
Theme: Linear by Peter Vidani
