August 2010
3 posts
William Blake "Proverbs of Hell"
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. The cut worm forgives the plow. Dip him in the river who loves water. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. He...
"North"
by Jennifer Boyden from - The Mouths of Grazing Things
“Yes, it said, and I heard it. Followed
whatever looked like it would take me
north, needed to go that far into the cold. But no
trail took me there enough, so I issued voice
in its direction waiting to be asked again. I sang
from within the shadow of a mountain, the shadow stretching
long as a town in which everyone wants
...