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(Venezia - Campo SS Giovanni e Paolo by 360 Visio on fb)

The enigma of Henri-Martin Barzun.

"The old world is dying. The new world is struggling to be born. Now is the time of monsters." - Antonio Gramsci (via @KameronHurley)

"At first glance, Ermoldus is a magpie and a 'poetic dead end;' detractors from the ninth century through to the twenty-first have criticised him for bolting together his poems with imagery and phrases wholesale from both Classical poets and Carolingian..."

snuff of fires VESTAL
as pillars of smoke ENTICE

hearing the birds as seldom · have no quarrel
with this STANCE

for mortal conflagrations later
gathering TINDER

we provided the tombstone
to their base claim we will not ACCEDE

clown assassins broke into the museum
& then LEERED

The sounds of a city.

(melisica via dark-seeet-muffin on tumblr)