paradox/reversal
(stasis)
- lyric cluster -
i.e., she's bigger than love
subsumed/objectified.
* * *
fuck-you poem - Millay
self-realization?
v. alienation
soul-retrieval -
a type -
a fantasy > what she tends towards herself
de-corporeal --> anorexic?
* * *
(goddess?)
yikes beautiful dead woman?
multiple but one
no possession possible
rather than vice-versa
having v. seeing
* * *
past life?
cut off
from past -
hi modernist topos
- portrait
- degraded saint
- Cf. Loy's Bowery poems
Apology of Genius
Eve as apple?
knowledge of good
& evil - or Ultimate Knowledge?
Graves?
Veiled goddess.
* * *
the anti-Beatrice?
the Ultimate as
dark & female -
that can't be named
love &/as death
declarative
statements,
detachable/
modular
woman as lack/gap?
not an aporia
surcease
* * *
aphrodite from the spume
so, antipodes -
topsy-turvydom
"ALL ONE!"
for herself
Revised mortician vignette
-
"Where's your aria this morning?" I asked the singing mortician as he
leaned out of his red car in his dull scrubs to put on his new and very
white tenni...
5 days ago
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I'm mad for Laura Riding, but it's largely a secret vice.
me too.
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