*There are days when... okay, maybe an hour or two during certain days... when I can feel like this, but for the publisher here, this appears to be a full-time sensibility.
http://blindpony.blogspot.com/
PONY CREDO
An idea of books from a yearning
to counter the all-polluting imagery-machines
with parables of plants and animals
and old stories
of black robbers and white stags.
Fragments on death like mirrors
from a black sleep
in the forests of fairy tales.
All stories from the dust of the dead
in fragments and footnotes
like melodies of heartbreak
and north and night and exploration–breakdowns.
About saints with no promise of heaven
and lost sailors forgotten
and the terribly lonely bears.
The unknown, the ugly – and the odd.
Collected grand mistakes,
noble errors from many sources.
Sinking signals - conscious or not – sonatas and last letters
and great insults.
The impossible tears in landscapes
of ocean or stranded whales.
A going far back to coals
and cruelties and sobbing
like songs in whiskey and blood.
Of soldiers’ last letters and all seven seas.
With pirates and wars and prayers
in holes in the ground.
Of fallen women and orphaned children
and drowned slaves and burned saints.
To make songs from doubt
and books to live by.
(((Actually, now that I think about it, the thing that MOST makes me feel this kind of deep melancholia is reading news about contemporary publishing. As Private Wilbur Fisk of Vermont once said, "The more we get used to being killed, the better we like it.")))
