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
A.D. 77 (cutouts from Anthony Doerr)
Inside the yellow well (creases from Guy de Maupassant)
eight names danced in their heads three onions one must have one between the two be unnatural her aprons wept over her plate a yellow animal and faun eat chalk bitter, distraction ‘where you go I go’ ‘at last at last’ crafty and cruel lying under an orange tree four beehives or(…)
Some foreign port (clippings from Willa Cather)
for some foreign port cooler and cooler his muffin carefully the wind early as many rivers
Power of unbelief (nips from Joseph Conrad)
kept up his duties garlanded eyelets men of his kind those men eight-hundred pilgrims trusting in the power of their unbelief he believed himself in a voice that quavered
Behind transgressive crap (pips from Roger Kimball)
1915 to 1923 erected on measurements on handfuls behind tansgressive crap crap. noun bear in mind the roomful of dirt its size still very much in doubt view of El Greco
Not always tomorrow (moisture from Olivia Laing)
cold green reek that April once they were fertile not always tomorrow a cold bluish cottage hardly a car
Optional (flecks from E.B. White)
or lesser grail in a sense, optional L.I.R.R. along heaven hard dropped silver thine eyes too soon no door at all
Transparent grapes (pips from Iris Murdoch)
unflecked by ripples yet another interval and pompous silvery skin sandy yellow it is alas only a shell transparent yellow grapes London Shoes clinging kisses not wearing a tie so unconvincing ugly and charmless and dull
Revisiting “The Cranes of Flying”
The small town of Little Neck on the Great South Bay is the original home of the Matinecock Indian, also the namesake for a small, hard clam essential to linguine alle vongole. In 1957, when a gallon of gas cost twenty-four cents, a postage stamp five cents, I was a twelve year old nail gnawing(…)
