Serious Real - The Anti-Journal 2:2


Folio





>>> 09/01/02

TO BYZANTIUM





I am exploding inside
with language:

Things to say,
Words to mince,
Pies to bake,
Eggs to hatch;

Tempera to mix,
Hues to fathom,
Frescoes to prick,
Walls to adorn;

Acres under tillage,
Forests full of gypsies,
Charcoal-burners,
Brigands;

Stones to polish,
Facets to incite,
Sapphires to fuel,
Sophists to quell;

Quills to ink,
Letters to form,
Words to carve,
Belle-lettrists to assail;

To a blue sail,
To Byzantium.




Forecast
Passiones Elementaires
October
Guarding Lenin's Tomb
Post-Romantique
Dy(e)ing Words








Adapted from The Book of Little Sparta
Landscape Agency New York - 1993/2002

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