Some foreign port (clippings from Willa Cather)

Jul 25, 2019 By Alison Leslie Gold in Folds No Comments

for some foreign port

cooler and cooler

his muffin carefully

the wind early

as many rivers

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Thing-less names (smatterings by Samuel Beckett)

in my mother’s room always thirsty hedges or ditches put money into her head odor of antiquity not two laws time to know what free, gratis and for nothing thing-less names not wish my spirals sucking four sucking not the sixteen
Pies cooling (spewings from Nicholson Baker)

no new poems kind no thank you or Tennyson look old poets in the eye would smell of ornament maybe by Maxfield Parrish us, anything put the pencil in a poem about pies cooling there Tennyson’s father some Mary Oliver next to me ear mites and fleas in leaf-shadow
Gloomy relations (riffles from George and Weedon Grossmith)

to the little side entrance a roar of laughter better to consent names omitted the sun has caught his nose yes there is a difference might accrue another gloomy relation cards this year
High bound (crumbs from Kazuo Ishiguro)

bound by haughty grey-haired old and high bound
Firefly’s blinking (gold filings from Michelle Obama)

held a kernel get ourselves my mother everything Pine-Sol, feel better the best of the worst hurrying a bus ride of connection when I got close as it was dismissive a small glue gun skin color African Methodist are a provocation it’s fuel began locking the door fireflies blinking new(…)
Not so new addiction VI

– continued – A Way in the World by V.S. Naipaul Burmese Days by George Orwell Death in Venice by Thomas Mann At the Edge of the World by Jean-Vincent Blanchard Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell The Ordeal of Gilbert Finfold by Evelyn Waugh(…)
Or, because (splinters from Margot Mifflin)

Mormons in search of gold horses, blankets and beads last captivity tales or, because half-finished fact from fiction by quicksand card on a tree one hundred mules all or probably all