poetryaboutmilkduds:

i keep a cherry in my teeth

to season each east, pull the setting

from imagined to horizontal defeat,

company tax laughs kettled on thumbtacks

where we now take our tea,

where i bless the surgeon that scalpels you from me,

on a winding road we plot protagonists

and water them until, like candy, they degrade,

purchase sugar in their names, tarriffs for each

governing mistake, you outside, me on the outskirts of a shadow

by some smudging shade,

coming out from a cloud, coming out to denounce

the gods of our present ways.

poetryaboutmilkduds:

a godless symphony

i’m happy when it rains

because i like when the earth

breathes on our necks but never quite

snaps them.

i repeat because language repeats

because i’m happy when it rains

and the air

is

blazeofgold:

i know this isn’t really original but im obsessed with how english words that refer to the bodily, the tangible, the elemental etc are so often of anglo-saxon/germanic origin e.g. (heart, blood, jaw, flesh) or observable phenomena, like adjectives describing light (glisten, gloaming, glitter, gleam, gloom, glow, dark, fire) or places (hearth, hall, hill), and the most stark, primal emotions or states (hate, love, life, lust, death) and of course fuck, shit, bitch, cunt etc– these often monosyllabic, consonant heavy words…and then you have the lilting, limpid romance/latinate, words like acquiesce and exacerbate and agrarian and pellucid and clemency and lucidity…and how maybe the secret of all great english language poetry is a textural balancing of the push-pull of the germanic and the romantic/latinate, a balancing of these two energies. like some of the most powerful moments in shakespeare are where the verbosity falls away and you have these plain utterances (“to be or not to be” or lear’s dying “look there look there”– all anglo saxon words) that are so powerful precisely because the language is so ornate elsewhere. i once came up with an elaborate wildly incoherent theory about this in the pub with some drunk american masters student who was dressed like harry styles

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