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A man and a woman
finish sentences
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Updated. I couldn’t manage to format the poem satisfactorily (which is the whole point), so here it is as a PDF. Just click on the birdy.
The currawong is a medium-sized bird, native to Australia. An example of their remarkable song is at Currawongs on youtube.

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Comes the last allusion, now the final verse.
Rhythm rhyme and metre, the poem right up close.
Below’s the ending couplet, proceed along the row
One last word, two consonants divided by an o.
Run past the concluding upright, a prop
farewelled by some circle, a blot, a dot.
from which the mighty all
teeming complex
burgeoning illusory
in a finely divided instant
is smeared on an inflating
balloon blown by
a small god
hyperventilating.
Image – NASA / WMAP Science Team [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

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The blender, the former, the calibrated shrinkage.
The proofing, the blocking, the brimming. Continue reading

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… is someone’s beach-idea perfected in whale-bone Continue reading

“it is relatively easy to perceive that Gogol must have intended [The Nose] as a satire on social climbers…but it will become clear that…under the guise of grotesque farce, a drama of sexual failure is enacted. Spycher, P., The Slavic and East European Journal, 7. No. 4, 1963, p. 361
An empty signifier
G reckoned that it was all extraordinary and happened in the Capital one autumn over a few days, barely a fortnight. Continue reading