Four Quartets for Zombies
Picture T. S. Eliot as Magus, stopping a rain drop mid-air,
asking of it how it turns the world on its head, inquiring
whence it came. . .
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Graveyard by the Sea by Paul Valéry
This quiet roof where doves stray and dip
Pulsates between the pines, the tombs.
Out of fire even-handed noon composes
The sea, the sea, ever recommencing.
O what recompense after thought’s travail
This long gazing on the gods’ repose!
The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud
As I came drifting down unruffled rivers,
I could no longer feel the haulers’ guiding pulls.
Redskins had taken the boatmen for bull’s-eyes
and, hooting, nailed them naked to painted poles.
Inferno Canto I Translated by Marc di Saverio
A remarkable translation by di Saverio of Canto I from Dante’s Inferno prepares the reader for when Crito meets Dante. . .
Three Poems by Michael Harris
The salmon is still in the noiseless black; she was quick-silvered star to the ship whose hull has sunk below the bottom of the lake.
Two Poems by Eric Ormsby
The spotted hogs trot past to the abattoir.
Their flanks are mired with fear-dung, and they squeal.
Two Poems by Talya Rubin
Belle and Sebastian are coming to town…
Three Poems by David Solway
Three Poems by David Solway