tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60714619359272408512024-02-07T21:19:09.218-08:00Bot Spa ReaderJo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-7912406108242940542023-04-12T14:19:00.003-07:002023-04-12T14:19:26.928-07:00Elizabeth Smart, A Bonus<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgatynHLPvO0heO_i0L5wsHeJFbbG3nqRyIsJd1yFLqTSqavljDwxgAJKnh70SUFSYjro379aenCUsbHm5eUGF64971zflEvffmAXRLh_4u0WTfNL4BtC2uLkIdvkqYkhNyoeGc9hxqhWSCQQ-YoN2MootRHV5v_7ESkLi48K5A9gwMNkCqfaCJndIm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="827" data-original-width="710" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgatynHLPvO0heO_i0L5wsHeJFbbG3nqRyIsJd1yFLqTSqavljDwxgAJKnh70SUFSYjro379aenCUsbHm5eUGF64971zflEvffmAXRLh_4u0WTfNL4BtC2uLkIdvkqYkhNyoeGc9hxqhWSCQQ-YoN2MootRHV5v_7ESkLi48K5A9gwMNkCqfaCJndIm=s16000" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-34454129768098747742020-03-31T14:09:00.001-07:002023-04-12T14:19:47.160-07:00Anne Finch, The Spleen<div class="c-feature-bd" style="border: 0px; font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 1.25rem; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.3; margin: 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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By Anne Finch</div>
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What art thou, Spleen, which ev’ry thing dost ape?</div>
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Thou Proteus to abused mankind,</div>
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Who never yet thy real cause could find,</div>
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Or fix thee to remain in one continued shape.</div>
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Still varying thy perplexing form,</div>
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Now a Dead Sea thou’lt represent,</div>
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A calm of stupid discontent,</div>
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Then, dashing on the rocks wilt rage into a storm.</div>
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Trembling sometimes thou dost appear,</div>
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Dissolved into a panic fear;</div>
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On sleep intruding dost thy shadows spread,</div>
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Thy gloomy terrors round the silent bed,</div>
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And crowd with boding dreams the melancholy head;</div>
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Or, when the midnight hour is told,</div>
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And drooping lids thou still dost waking hold,</div>
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Thy fond delusions cheat the eyes,</div>
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Before them antic specters dance,</div>
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Unusual fires their pointed heads advance,</div>
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And airy phantoms rise.</div>
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Such was the monstrous vision seen,</div>
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When Brutus (now beneath his cares opprest,</div>
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And all Rome’s fortunes rolling in his breast,</div>
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Before Philippi’s latest field,</div>
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Before his fate did to Octavius lead)</div>
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Was vanquished by the Spleen.</div>
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Falsely, the mortal part we blame</div>
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Or our depressed, and pond’rous frame,</div>
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Which, till the first degrading sin</div>
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Let thee, its dull attendant, in,</div>
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Still with the other did comply,</div>
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Nor clogged the active soul, disposed to fly,</div>
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And range the mansions of its native sky.</div>
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Nor, whilst in his own heaven he dwelt,</div>
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Whilst Man his paradise possessed,</div>
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His fertile Garden in the fragrant East,</div>
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And all united odors smelled,</div>
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No armèd sweets, until thy reign,</div>
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Could shock the sense, or in the face</div>
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A flushed, unhandsome color place.</div>
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Now the jonquil o’ercomes the feeble brain;</div>
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We faint beneath the aromatic pain,</div>
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Till some offensive scent thy pow’rs appease,</div>
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And pleasure we resign for short and nauseous ease.</div>
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In ev’ry one thou dost possess,</div>
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New are thy motions, and thy dress:</div>
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Now in some grove a list’ning friend</div>
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Thy false suggestions must attend,</div>
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Thy whispered griefs, thy fancied sorrows hear,</div>
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Breathed in a sigh, and witnessed by a tear;</div>
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Whilst in the light and vulgar crowd,</div>
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Thy slaves, more clamorous and loud,</div>
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By laughters unprovoked, thy influence too confess.</div>
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In the imperious wife thou vapors art,</div>
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Which from o’erheated passions rise</div>
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In clouds to the attractive brain,</div>
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Until descending thence again,</div>
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Through the o’er-cast and show’ring eyes,</div>
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Upon her husband’s softened heart,</div>
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He the disputed point must yield,</div>
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Something resign of the contested field;</div>
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Till lordly Man, born to imperial sway,</div>
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Compounds for peace, to make that right away,</div>
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And Woman, arm’d with Spleen, does servilely obey.</div>
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The fool, to imitate the wits,</div>
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Complains of thy pretended fits,</div>
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And dullness, born with him, would lay</div>
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Upon thy accidental sway;</div>
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Because, sometimes, thou dost presume</div>
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Into the ablest heads to come:</div>
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That, often, men of thoughts refined,</div>
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Impatient of unequal sense,</div>
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Such slow returns, where they so much dispense,</div>
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Retiring from the crowd, are to thy shades inclined.</div>
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O’er me alas! thou dost too much prevail:</div>
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I feel thy force, whilst I against thee rail;</div>
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I feel my verse decay, and my cramped numbers fail.</div>
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Through thy black jaundice I all objects see,</div>
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As dark and terrible as thee,</div>
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My lines decried, and my employment thought</div>
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An useless folly, or presumptuous fault:</div>
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Whilst in the Muses’ paths I stray,</div>
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Whilst in their groves, and by their secret springs</div>
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My hand delights to trace unusual things,</div>
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And deviates from the known and common way;</div>
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Nor will in fading silks compose</div>
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Faintly th’ inimitable rose,</div>
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Fill up an ill-drawn bird, or paint on glass</div>
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The sov’reign’s blurred and undistinguished face,</div>
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The threat’ning angel, and the speaking ass.</div>
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Patron thou art to ev’ry gross abuse,</div>
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The sullen husband’s feigned excuse,</div>
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When the ill humor with his wife he spends,</div>
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And bears recruited wit, and spirits to his friends.</div>
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The son of Bacchus pleads thy pow’r,</div>
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As to the glass he still repairs,</div>
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Pretends but to remove thy cares,</div>
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Snatch from thy shades one gay and smiling hour,</div>
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And drown thy kingdom in a purple show’r.</div>
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When the Coquette, whom ev’ry fool admires,</div>
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Would in variety be fair,</div>
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And, changing hastily the scene,</div>
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From light, impertinent, and vain,</div>
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Assumes a soft, a melancholy air,</div>
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And of her eyes rebates the wand’ring fires,</div>
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The careless posture, and the head reclined,</div>
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The thoughtful, and composèd face,</div>
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Proclaiming the withdrawn, the absent mind,</div>
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Allows the Fop more liberty to gaze,</div>
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Who gently for the tender cause inquires;</div>
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The cause, indeed, is a defect in sense,</div>
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Yet is the Spleen alleged, and still the dull pretence.</div>
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But these are thy fantastic harms,</div>
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The tricks of thy pernicious stage,</div>
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Which do the weaker sort engage;</div>
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Worse are the dire effects of thy more pow’rful charms.</div>
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By thee Religion, all we know,</div>
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That should enlighten here below,</div>
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Is veiled in darkness, and perplexed</div>
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With anxious doubts, with endless scruples vexed,</div>
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And some restraint implied from each perverted text.</div>
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Whilst touch not, taste not, what is freely giv’n,</div>
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Is but thy niggard voice, disgracing bounteous heav’n.</div>
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From speech restrained, by thy deceits abused,</div>
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To deserts banished, or in cells reclused,</div>
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Mistaken vot’ries to the pow’rs divine,</div>
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Whilst they a purer sacrifice design,</div>
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Do but the Spleen obey, and worship at thy shrine.</div>
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In vain to chase thee ev’ry art we try,</div>
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In vain all remedies apply,</div>
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In vain the Indian leaf infuse,</div>
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Or the parched Eastern berry bruise;</div>
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Some pass, in vain, those bounds, and nobler liquors use.</div>
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Now harmony, in vain, we bring,</div>
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Inspire the flute, and touch the string.</div>
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From harmony no help is had;</div>
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Music but soothes thee, if too sweetly sad,</div>
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And if too light, but turns thee gaily mad.</div>
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Though the physicians greatest gains,</div>
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Although his growing wealth he sees</div>
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Daily increased by ladies’ fees,</div>
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Yet dost thou baffle all his studious pains.</div>
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Not skillful Lower thy source could find,</div>
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Or through the well-dissected body trace</div>
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The secret, the mysterious ways,</div>
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By which thou dost surprise, and prey upon the mind.</div>
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Though in the search, too deep for humane thought,</div>
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With unsuccessful toil he wrought,</div>
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’Till thinking thee to’ve catched, himself by thee was caught,</div>
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Retained thy pris’ner, thy acknowledged slave,</div>
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And sunk beneath thy chain to a lamented grave.</div>
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Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-2517326484993439562017-11-26T03:20:00.002-08:002017-11-26T03:20:49.660-08:00Charles Baudelaire trans. Sean Bonney, Le Soleil<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-22493577690761340932017-11-26T03:13:00.003-08:002017-11-26T03:13:57.721-08:00Denise Levertov, What My House Would Be Like If It Were A PersonThis person would be an animal.<br>
This animal would be large, at least as large<br>
as a workhorse. It would chew cud, like cows,<br>
having several stomachs.<br>
No one could follow it<br>
into the dense brush to witness<br>
its mating habits. Hidden by fur,<br>
its sex would be hard to determine.<br>
Definitely it would discourage<br>
investigation. But it would be, if not teased,<br>
a kind, amiable animal,<br>
confiding as a chickadee. Its intelligence<br>
would be of a high order,<br>
neither human nor animal, elvish.<br>
And it would purr, though of course,<br>
it being a house, you would sit in its lap,<br>
not it in yours.<br>
Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-14320911301537904612017-11-26T03:12:00.002-08:002017-11-26T03:12:35.261-08:00Mairéad Byrne, YEE-HAWI love my frontloading bra because I feel like a gunslinger when I put it on. I feel like a sheriff or a plain clothes tv cop, strapping on his gun in the small hours. I always thought being a single mother was a sort of desperado activity. Especially a single mother in academia. <i>Bo Diddly!</i> Like I’ve always thought being an emigrant was like being Clint Eastwood. That time I was Clint Eastwood. <i>Mamma Mia!</i> Being a poet is a lot like being Clint Eastwood. <i>Yessirree Bob.</i> Being a poet is a lot like being a single mother and an emigrant and a poet combined. <i>Bo diddly mamma mia yessirree bob.</i> At least the sort of poet I am. <i>Yee-haw!</i>Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-46462106431039786632017-11-26T03:09:00.005-08:002017-11-26T03:09:52.718-08:00Hera Lindsay Bird, Bruce Willis You Are The GhostIt’s not that your wife doesn’t love you. It’s because you died and now you are a ghost and she can’t hear you talking to her. That time you saw her taking off her wedding ring? It’s because you’re her dead husband and she can’t continue to mourn your absence with heterosexual jewellery indefinitely. Stop haunting her already, Bruce Willis! Bruce Willis, it’s hard to be a ghost and not know you are a ghost. Haven’t you noticed that the only person you’ve talked to in a year is a supernaturally gifted child? Don’t you think it’s weird your wife just cries alone in the living room every night, rewatching your wedding tape and never looking or speaking to you? Don’t you remember being fatally shot in the stomach at the beginning of the movie? Walk towards the light, Bruce Willis. Walk towards the light.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "garamond" , serif;">From <i><a href="https://thespinoff.co.nz/books/21-07-2017/the-friday-poem-by-hera-lindsay-bird/">The Spinoff</a></i>.</span>Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-32185732357334961532017-11-26T03:06:00.000-08:002017-11-26T03:06:13.692-08:00Audre Lorde, PowerThe difference between poetry and rhetoric<br />
is being ready to kill<br />
yourself<br />
instead of your children.<br />
<br />
I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wounds<br />
and a dead child dragging his shattered black<br />
face off the edge of my sleep<br />
blood from his punctured cheeks and shoulders<br />
is the only liquid for miles<br />
and my stomach<br />
churns at the imagined taste while<br />
my mouth splits into dry lips<br />
without loyalty or reason<br />
thirsting for the wetness of his blood<br />
as it sinks into the whiteness<br />
of the desert where I am lost<br />
without imagery or magic<br />
trying to make power out of hatred and destruction<br />
trying to heal my dying son with kisses<br />
only the sun will bleach his bones quicker.<br />
<br />
A policeman who shot down a ten year old in Queens<br />
stood over the boy with his cop shoes in childish blood<br />
and a voice said “Die you little motherfucker” and<br />
there are tapes to prove it. At his trial<br />
this policeman said in his own defense<br />
“I didn't notice the size nor nothing else<br />
only the color”. And<br />
there are tapes to prove that, too.<br />
<br />
Today that 37 year old white man<br />
with 13 years of police forcing<br />
was set free<br />
by eleven white men who said they were satisfied<br />
justice had been done<br />
and one Black Woman who said<br />
“They convinced me” meaning<br />
they had dragged her 4'10'' black Woman's frame<br />
over the hot coals<br />
of four centuries of white male approval<br />
until she let go<br />
the first real power she ever had<br />
and lined her own womb with cement<br />
to make a graveyard for our children.<br />
<br />
I have not been able to touch the destruction<br />
within me.<br />
But unless I learn to use<br />
the difference between poetry and rhetoric<br />
my power too will run corrupt as poisonous mold<br />
or lie limp and useless as an unconnected wire<br />
and one day I will take my teenaged plug<br />
and connect it to the nearest socket<br />
raping an 85 year old white woman<br />
who is somebody's mother<br />
and as I beat her senseless and set a torch to her bed<br />
a greek chorus will be singing in 3/4 time<br />
“Poor thing. She never hurt a soul. What beasts they are.”Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-20154048015660702892017-11-14T14:13:00.001-08:002017-11-14T14:13:33.475-08:00Sharon Olds, Armor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-6130991046307158542017-11-12T13:15:00.000-08:002017-11-12T13:15:29.523-08:00Marianne Morris, MORE THAN 1 WAY 2 BURN A W1TCHThere is more than one way to burn a witch. It’s 1497. It’s 2016. It’s Europe. It’s North America. It’s oil. It’s gas. It’s something about how numb you have to be in order to care more about money, control, aggregation of power, power, profit, corporate expansion, tipping the balance, exploitation, rape, than the Earth that gave you life. How numb you have to be in order to only be able to escape tribal law through aggregation of the aforementioned, can only dream in paper green, can only rape your way to the top, can only exploit your way up, can only be a man, can only be a man, can only lie your way to the top, can only be a man, can only be a man, and the feminisms are a new war, can only be a man. Only a woman would. Only a man would. Only a woman would. Only a man would. A woman always. A woman never. A man always. A man never. Stop up your mouth. Swear to me you will never say never or always again. The new Earth is here. It is beautiful.Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-86279043635657527932017-05-29T09:54:00.002-07:002017-05-29T09:54:43.333-07:00Anne Sexton, Song for a Lady<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: fira-sans; font-size: 1.2em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; margin-bottom: 1.4em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
On the day of breasts and small hips<br />
the window pocked with bad rain,<br />
rain coming on like a minister,<br />
we coupled, so sane and insane.<br />
We lay like spoons while the sinister<br />
rain dropped like flies on our lips<br />
and our glad eyes and our small hips.</div>
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“The room is so cold with rain,” you said<br />
and you, feminine you, with your flower<br />
said novenas to my ankles and elbows.<br />
You are a national product and power.<br />
Oh my swan, my drudge, my dear wooly rose,<br />
even a notary would notarize our bed<br />
as you knead me and I rise like bread.</div>
Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-38283243740006561892017-02-23T09:20:00.003-08:002017-02-23T09:20:32.906-08:00Stephen Jonas, Invocation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-16632939184766468252017-02-21T12:39:00.002-08:002017-02-21T12:50:39.413-08:00Linton Kwesi Johnson, Di Great Insohreckshan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-15294022386707215362017-02-21T12:37:00.002-08:002017-02-21T12:37:52.658-08:00Bernadette Mayer, [Sonnet]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Jo Lindsay Waltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03385802548895720626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6071461935927240851.post-38031329585723662102017-02-21T12:30:00.004-08:002017-02-21T12:57:39.001-08:00Gertrude Stein, the beginning of TENDER BUTTONS<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">From <i><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/140/1.html">Tender Buttons</a> </i>(1914).</span></div>
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