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User:burntnorton (1090954)
dirtying the tabula rasa
sitting on window sills and scribing.
Name:faded epitaph
Location:defeat, england, United Kingdom
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Bio:i am unearthed in brilliance and washed from heaven's flaw, i am the precipitate of the purified soul and the slurry of the spirit's swill.

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(to yield synthesis)
a sudden thunderstorm; the jagged flashes of correction; Prospero's enriching excess.

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the brief but bright burnings of my incendiary mind.

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vertebrae: the articulation of the body, the sore arched&turning back of text.

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parenthesis upon the skin, scar upon words, the insertion (stab) of a sharp syllable.

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names of renown: akkub - a crooked footprint in the dirt outside her gate "i do not want tonight to kiss you, supplanter of my heart"

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the widow forces the shutters open at dawn.

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my heart is unruly; my love ceres harvests it so that it will not overgrow, befoul and rot the very soil on which it is sustained.

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a burning rose; as much of the flame as of the flower.





Memories::29 entries
Interests:150: a moveable feast, absurdism, aesthetics, albert camus, aloysius bertrand, andre gide, andrew marvell, antony and cleopatra, aquinas, archetypes, architecture, auditory imagination, augustine, avant-garde, basil bunting, baudelaire, ben jonson, biographia literaria, blake, boccaccio, borges, cartier bresson, catharsis, cezanne, chekhov, coleridge, conrad, contextualising radiance, crime and punishment, cubism, de maupassant, description of a struggle, dos passos, dostoevsky, dylan thomas, el greco, empathy, epiphany, ernest hemingway, etymology, evocative power, excercises in style, existentialism, expressionism, ezra pound, f. scott fitzgerald, f.o. matthiessen, flaubert, gabriele d'annunzio, garcia marquez, gauguin, gertrude stein, giacomo joyce, giordano bruno, gogol, goya, greasy spoon cafes, hamlet, hart crane, henri bergson, imagination, imagism, impressionism, in another country, industrial architecture, intuition, isabelle eberhardt, ivan turgenev, jack gilbert, james joyce, john donne, kafka, keats, kierkegaard, knut hamsen, leopold bloom, lorine niedecker, manifestation of spirit, mark doty, martial, martyrs, maxim gorky, minutiae of life, modernism, moral universe, muriel rukeyser, negative capability, norton critical editions, objective correlative, old maps, orwell, oulipo, out of season, pablo neruda, paul morand, phantasms, phenomenology, picasso, pomes penyeach, queneau, raymond carver, recording the emphatic moment, rembrandt, remy de gourmont, robert browning, robert frost, robert herrick, robert lowell, roland barthes, roses on romanticism's grave, samuel beckett, sartre, seamus heaney, shakespeare, shakespeare and company, sherwood anderson, sleeping during the day, staying up all night, stendhal, stephen dedalus, stream of consciousness, synthesis, t. s. eliot, the left bank, the obscure, the snows of kilimanjaro, the suggestive, the symbolic, the tempest, the visual in literature, the vital sea, titian, tolstoy, toulouse lautrec, truffaut, ulysses, valery larbaud, van gogh, vers libre, virgil, vulgarity of action, w.b. yeats, walking city streets, walt whitman, warehouses, wilfred owen, william carlos williams, william empson, william james, wordsworth
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