"Therefore Sisters

Therefore sisters now begin
With time-locked heel
To mourn the vanishing and mewing;
Taboo becomes obscene from too much wooing:
Glory rots, like any other green.

Therefore daughters of the Gwash
Look not for Orpheus the swan
Nor wash
The Traveller his boot
Both are gone."

--Djuna Barnes, Collected Poems (2005)


"The poet can hardly lift these words. Not because they are heavy, but because he is so weak." --Robert Duncan


"The Dhvani School, in its analysis of the essentials of poetry, found that the contents of a good poem may be generally distinguished into two parts. The one is that which is expressed and includes what is given in so many words; the other content is not expressed, but must be added to it by the imagination of reader or the listener. The unexpressed or the suggested part, which is developed by a peculiar process of suggestin (vyañjanâ), is taken to be the 'soul' or essence of poetry." --Sushil Kumar De, "The Theory of Rasa," in: Some Problems of Sanskrit Poetics (1959)

"One evening as we were reading some remarkably bad poetry on the glories of Aleppo, my friend opined that of the whole corpus of medieval Muslim literature perhaps a third has been published, while another third remains to be published, while another third does not deserve to be published," --John C Lamoreaux, The Early Muslim Tradition of Dream Interpretation (2003)


    "The Thumbscrew Letters"

pumpkinification
ulab Hedorah hard to
mirror spiral hathi

pools scorn karcist
kismet Adkins cilia
incog cagmag maniac

nourish sherbet ski
into indigo apertif
fjord swale Kon Tiki

iodoform mall Solon
choir ruin the teloi
atoll kinship skink

trolling for parsnip
ink skin clench perm
orange radon Klaatu

nuklir zeyg stirrup


No word for it.