"Another book-case was filled with the French poets, from Villon to Soulary. The editions were delicious, a pleasure to hold, and many of them bore the imprint of Lemerre. Among them was the Fleurs du Mal, an unexpurgated copy, and by it were the poems of Baudelaire's decadent descendants, Paul Verlaine and Mallarmé." --Edgar Saltus, Mr Incoul's Misadventure (1887)
crawlspace frass · smock-adjacent smurf
windmill whaletrap · wielder evokes
in linked letters · lines that balance
as we tiptoe · on the tall wire
no rage-riddle · safer than cropduster field
no highway · in the camp-encrusted miles
so yet bear witness · in a minor way
leave crawlspace frass · on the tall wire shaking
W.H. Auden on his use of alliterative meter in The Age of Anxiety.
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