tower of hanoi

(pic by mposada on tumblr)

" She compares detectives to poets, 'a lot of decoding, so many different angles you can take.' "

"Virgil takes bees seriously, but I doubt if he would have kept bees as carefully as he wrote about them." --Chesterton

"His attempt, elsewhere, to ‘improve’ Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’ has been described by Stephen Gill as ‘one of the most audacious assaults ever by one great poet on another’."

the bitter & the bitter-sweet
same subfusc sky that threatens all
& nothing matters what i feel
or capture in a shapely thought

so little time we have, to dwell
in crossing where before have crossed
only now ghosts whose soughs attest
the subfusc sky that threatens all

"He campaigned on the notorious slogan 'He killed my ma, he killed my pa, but I will vote for him.' "