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| author | Case Duckworth | 2015-04-21 18:10:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Case Duckworth | 2015-04-21 18:10:13 -0700 |
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Add link to news article ekphrasis
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| 37 | <section class="content verse"> | 37 | <section class="content verse"> |
| 38 | <p><span class="line">Memory works strangely, <a href="roughgloves.html">spooling its thread</a></span><span class="line">over the <a href="when-im-sorry-i.html">nails of events</a> barely related,</span><span class="line">creating finally some picture, if we’re</span><span class="line">lucky, of a life—but more likely, it knots</span><span class="line">itself, catches on a nail or in our throats</span><span class="line">that gasp, as it binds our necks, for air.</span></p> | 38 | <p><span class="line">Memory works strangely, <a href="roughgloves.html">spooling its thread</a></span><span class="line">over the <a href="when-im-sorry-i.html">nails of events</a> barely related,</span><span class="line">creating finally some picture, if we’re</span><span class="line">lucky, of a life—but more likely, it knots</span><span class="line">itself, catches on a nail or in our throats</span><span class="line">that gasp, as it binds our necks, for air.</span></p> |
| 39 | <p><span class="line">An example: today marks one hundred years</span><span class="line">since your namesake, the last living passenger</span><span class="line">pigeon, died in Cincinnati. It also marks</span><span class="line">a year since we last spoke. Although around</span><span class="line">the world, zoos mourn her loss, I’m done</span><span class="line">with you. I mourn no more your voice, the first</span><span class="line">sound I heard outside my body that reached</span><span class="line"><a href="weplayedthosegamestoo.html">into my throat and set me ringing</a>. But that string—</span></p> | 39 | <p><span class="line">An example: today marks one hundred years</span><span class="line">since your namesake, the last living passenger</span><span class="line">pigeon, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/meet-martha-the-very-last-passenger-pigeon/380473/">died in Cincinnati</a>. It also marks</span><span class="line">a year since we last spoke. Although around</span><span class="line">the world, zoos mourn her loss, I’m done</span><span class="line">with you. I mourn no more your voice, the first</span><span class="line">sound I heard outside my body that reached</span><span class="line"><a href="weplayedthosegamestoo.html">into my throat and set me ringing</a>. But that string—</span></p> |
| 40 | <p><span class="line">memory that feels sometimes more like a tide</span><span class="line">has yoked together, bound your voice to that bird,</span><span class="line">the frozen, stuffed, forgotten pigeon—my heart</span><span class="line">is too easy, but it must do—to blink, to flex</span><span class="line">its unused toes, slowly thaw to the wetness</span><span class="line">of <a href="cold-wind.html">beating wings</a>, fly to me again, and alight,</span><span class="line">singing full-throated, on my broken shoulder.</span></p> | 40 | <p><span class="line">memory that feels sometimes more like a tide</span><span class="line">has yoked together, bound your voice to that bird,</span><span class="line">the frozen, stuffed, forgotten pigeon—my heart</span><span class="line">is too easy, but it must do—to blink, to flex</span><span class="line">its unused toes, slowly thaw to the wetness</span><span class="line">of <a href="cold-wind.html">beating wings</a>, fly to me again, and alight,</span><span class="line">singing full-throated, on my broken shoulder.</span></p> |
| 41 | </section> | 41 | </section> |
| 42 | </article> | 42 | </article> |
| diff --git a/text/last-passenger.txt b/text/last-passenger.txt index a7157f3..67859a8 100644 --- a/text/last-passenger.txt +++ b/text/last-passenger.txt | |||
| @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ TODO: revise based on reading notes | |||
| 21 | 21 | ||
| 22 | | An example: today marks one hundred years | 22 | | An example: today marks one hundred years |
| 23 | | since your namesake, the last living passenger | 23 | | since your namesake, the last living passenger |
| 24 | | pigeon, died in Cincinnati. It also marks | 24 | | pigeon, [died in Cincinnati][]. It also marks |
| 25 | | a year since we last spoke. Although around | 25 | | a year since we last spoke. Although around |
| 26 | | the world, zoos mourn her loss, I'm done | 26 | | the world, zoos mourn her loss, I'm done |
| 27 | | with you. I mourn no more your voice, the first | 27 | | with you. I mourn no more your voice, the first |
| @@ -40,3 +40,4 @@ TODO: revise based on reading notes | |||
| 40 | [nails of events]: when-im-sorry-i.html | 40 | [nails of events]: when-im-sorry-i.html |
| 41 | [into my throat and set me ringing]: weplayedthosegamestoo.html | 41 | [into my throat and set me ringing]: weplayedthosegamestoo.html |
| 42 | [beating wings]: cold-wind.html | 42 | [beating wings]: cold-wind.html |
| 43 | [died in Cincinnati]: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/meet-martha-the-very-last-passenger-pigeon/380473/ | ||