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Monthly Archives: June 2006

Ondaatje bit from Rat Jelly

Sunday, June 11, 2006

I am writing this with a pen my wife has used
to write a letter to her first husband.
On it is the smell of her hair.
She must have placed it down between sentences
and thought, and driven her fingers round her skull
gathered the slightest smell of her head
and brought it back to the pen.
– Michael Ondaatje 
(from “Billboards” [...]

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Not Spoleto

Wednesday, June 7, 2006

In our neighborhood, you rarely see graffiti; indeed, I remember the day we first looked at our house, driving around afterwards as we talked over the merits of buying it, seeing policemen at work removing graffiti from a wall across from the Hester Street basketball court, and later reading something somewhere, probably in the Post [...]

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Structure of a sentence

Monday, June 5, 2006

Amidst post-vacation laundry, besides another trip something I’m thinking about:
The very structure of a sentence is logical; to complete a sentence one must complete the thought.
(from Writing Past Dark, Bonnie Friedman.)

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Strand’s The Night, The Porch

Thursday, June 1, 2006

The Night, The Porch
To stare at nothing is to learn by heart
What all of us will be swept into, and baring oneself
To the wind is feeling the ungraspable somewhere close by.
Trees can sway or be still. Day or night can be what they wish.
What we desire, more than a aseason or weather, is the comfort
Of [...]

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