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"I’ve always thought the opposite, that most poetry isn’t hard enough."

"Diggle, whose expertise really is ungainsayable, identifies maybe twelve instances of ‘wrong or dubious’ Greek in the poem, most of them pretty trivial (he also finds ‘a few false quantities’, which is venal rather than mortal sinning, I feel)." —@adamroberts.bsky.social via

Dead Man's Party.

"orange cyber truck"

2.
not the frown spread · on the face of the sky
nor the rising wind · nor birds wax tellingly
but a fourth sense · would presage rain
bulletins teem · in our tiny rooms
   ev'ryone's talking to persuade
on shadowless roads · shambles the man
who needed a word · & made one

3.
Meadowknoll annealing
Dang & Zapata Law
an ascian lurks otchkies
irked by wires cerulean
indwelling mob munchkin
mistletoe for kismet
two-worlds-lost contestant
i tell the yegg-regolith
of Meadowknoll annealing

Vitai Lampada.