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Category Archives: Poetry

Eine subtitled mississippianische Re-post (nach Williams)

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Have you read Humorous Elements  in the Short Stories and Novels  of the Southern Writer Eudora Welty … in German? Ja, Darling! — * a (reverse) translation of Jonathan Williams’ ‘A Subtle Mississippian Riposte (for L.Z.)’ in Louis Zukofsky, or whoever someone else thought he was: a collection of responses to the work of Louis […]

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Junk mail poem

Thursday, January 29, 2015

This trick makes young women fuck you (recovered 5:42pm, Thursday 29th January, 2015) You can use this trick on a girl you know right now – or you can use it on a completely NEW woman to get her horny. It doesn’t matter how old you are or what you look like because this trick […]

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Questions – LXIII (after Neruda)

Saturday, January 24, 2015

How is the translation of their languages agreed upon with the birds? How do I explain to the tortoise that I am even slower than he is? How should I quiz the flea about his championship statistics? Or address the carnations, in my appreciation of their fragrance?

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The Pikey Laureate introduces Whitman to the high street

Monday, January 19, 2015

O ye women who go down unto the Co-Op in your onesies: What do you think you look like!?

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I’ll play along (after Da Ponte)

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

You wanna dance, you little count? You wanna dance? If you really wanna dance then I’ll dig out the banjo. Why not? I’ll play along with you. If you wanna learn how I’ll even show you the moves: I could teach you a thing or two. I will, I will – I promise! But gently […]

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Story

Monday, November 24, 2014

We still get MamanBébé fliers for our childless former flatmate.

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Mortality 101 – or; Catullus at the graveside

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

‘I want to explain about the Catullus poem … Catullus wrote poem 101 for his brother who died in the Troad.’ – Anne Carson I have travelled, brother, over lands and oceans, to this field of bones to observe the rituals of the final hour, and mumble pointless words above your ashes. Misfortune took you […]

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From my father’s marginalia on TS Eliot

Friday, September 26, 2014

‘What the devil does this mean?’ – TS Eliot, note in Edmund Husserl’s Logische Untersuchungen Pagan spring about to be replaced cf. feathers in Gerontion This a prayer – the old securities will collapse. No guarantee for children on acc. of his piety. Period between death and rebirth. Prefiguring of passion + cross. Calvary. Eliot […]

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O, ye women disporting yourselves upon blankets!

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

O, ye women disporting yourselves upon blankets! Please stop it. I’ve work to do.

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Fragment (after Sappho)

Monday, June 23, 2014

no more for me the honey or the bee (i.e. thee)

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