Sunday, October 25, 2009

THE RECOURSE OF THE DESPERATE


We weep because the human race is no better than it is.

The aquatic frog has the tail of a fish until he makes a twig or a blade of grass his house, then he
loses his tail and grows legs.

Nature advises the frog far better than man; a noddle endeavours to employ faculties he does not possess.

And the eunuch burns for Jezebel.

Monday, June 22, 2009

NAVIGATING THE MINUTIAE


In the work of translation, trying at times to avoid the Charybdis of too literal an

interpretation,

I may have grounded my barque on the hidden reefs of Scylla which lie in the outer seas.

But for the most part I have kept to the shallows.

Saturday, June 13, 2009

SUPERLATIVE CONSPIRACIES (MOBILE, WASHABLE, AND UNABASHEDLY PUBLIC)


There was a flagon of something free,

A near fall,

and Electric Fish.

On closer inspection their flash and crackle derived from specimens other.

But we saw the Truck of The Year.

(2002)


Sunday, June 7, 2009

AVIARY LINE


"I take it that the Golden Drugget is not outspread

nowanights across the high dark coast-road between

Rapallo and Zoagli".

Sunday, May 17, 2009

PERCONTARI


"[T]hat each part and portion of the persons of either was obvious to the sight and touch of the persons of

both;

the visuriency of either, by ushering the
tacturiency of both, made the attrectation of both consequent to

the inspection of either".
 Thomas Urquhart, The Jewel  (1652)