The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
Anne CarsonWhat is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.
Anne CarsonTo be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
Anne CarsonTags: hope
English is a bitch
Anne Carsonhe stood against the wind and let it peel him
clean
trapped in his own bad apple. Each morning a shock
to return to the cut soul.
It was not fear of ridicule,
to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life,
but this blank desertion of his own mind
that threw him into despair.
I am a drop of gold he would say
I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things-
we disappear.
It happens to me frequently. You disappear? Yes and then come back.
Moments of death I call them.
Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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