“Look mummy! There’s a shape-changer on the roof! First it was a man, and now it is a cougar!” “-Don’t be silly, boy, shape-changers don’t climb onto rooves.” “Yes yes! I saw it! He’s there.” The sun beat down on the mother and son, Their little tea party on the deck continued. Howard finished…
Tag: history
Dialogue
I bastardized an historical fiction today. I adulterated the ism, the -isy, the science of retelling. Yeah, I added invented dialogue to assumed events. Events I was convinced of, Events that are unlikely, Events that have been censored. But I couldn’t resist – the book was so dull, and the evidence is so scarce, and…
History
You exist in the poor length of my second toe, our lip and Irish eye that pinks upon the island air. I’m bored cleaning corpse from empirical floor. I pack jaws that don’t speak, at doors to centuries. Sing – give us wars that ring in your elbow, sting of injury, and porous…
from Antithetical: Poet as Worm
* It is good, yes?, to be reliable, and bold, like the engine, feed coal, soil, Mr. Diesel’s modified; or a coil humming particles, muons excitation in the gravity of time pulling everyone wired so, a round sub-molecular redundancies: nought; the armed guardsmen, the drivers; class; system; Courts, of Papacies, and vested interests; sound ideology…
from: Love The Word Feeling Actual
Prelude . . . . . . . . . History: is guessing what was left out who knew the secrets and who had the clout. History: is running back to where you came why prophets and profits sound alike. History: is written words sealed to their shape but you know by looking where the…