Thursday, December 26, 2024

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An old-fashioned blogroll. (somewhat right-leaning but not MAGA)

"Sleep hath two gates: one, said to be of horn,
To real visions easy exit gives;
The other, of white polished ivory,
Through which the Manes send false dreams to earth.
Anchises, having thus addressed his son,
Together with the Sibyl, leads them on,
And through the ivory gate dismisses them."

--Cranch's Virgil

"He's just made a chess set out of cheese."

in the gray trails · trouble bides
glass towers · glare like pumpkins
a route ranging · around pylons
   black sombrero fluorescents

what is danger · a dark choice
a menace met · at a lonely crossroad
the wrong label · on a list of citizens
   black sombrero waitingroom

they do not bring sickness · but they find it here
invisible vectors · inveigled & sorted
if the map itself · be soaked in fearsweat
   black sombrero partings

on the highway hustle · tall trucks laden
with destinations · duly inventoried
my words wither · where the wood begins
   black sombrero entering

New Ghost Stories by Lettice Galbraith (1893).

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