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Bareback on the Ox.

"REMARKABLE REPORT BY SOME POETIC AGENTS

There was from March 3rd to April 3rd the appearance of reality.
Jake said welcome. Perceived by lyrical action
All’s leader. Amen to all. Doves conquer all.
In the vivid convention of an old harmony
A man shouted out, involved in outcry.
Man is a third class road. (Which I myself,
Problem of task subterranean to fact,
Perceive and show by means of grievous survey.)
A man shouted out, involved in outcry.
Chiefly by accident (which I myself prefer)
Freedom is reached continually. The king
Paid tribute to rebellion and astronomy.
A man shouted out, involved in outcry.
Death (its apparatus through the anxious rafters)
Appoints the Spring. Relate, by means of grief
Your own fled court to its once-pleasant country.
A man shouted out, involved in outcry.
Where animals sheltered in a high houseboat
A man shouted out, involved in outcry."

--W S Graham

"But now that poetry has regained its claims to verticality, the aerial exhilaration of language itself becomes its own authority."

" 'Is there something in Horace that twines itself about the heart? Perhaps it is his being his own worst enemy. That seems to be thought an appealing attribute.'
'The trouble with those who have it,' said Charlotte, 'is that they are bad enemies to other people, even if not the worst.' " --@ivycomptonburnett.bsky.social

Waters on Ivy.