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1 | <!DOCTYPE html> | 1 | <!DOCTYPE html> |
2 | <!-- Template for compiled 'Autocento' documents --> | 2 | <!-- AUTOCENTO OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE --> |
3 | <!-- vim: fdm=indent --> | ||
3 | <html lang="en"> | 4 | <html lang="en"> |
4 | <head> | 5 | <head> |
5 | <meta charset="utf-8"> | 6 | <meta charset="utf-8"> |
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23 | <!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> --> | 24 | <!-- <script src="js/external.js"> </script> --> |
24 | </head> | 25 | </head> |
25 | <body> | 26 | <body> |
27 | |||
28 | <article id="container"> | ||
29 | <header> | ||
30 | <!-- title --> | ||
31 | <h1 class="title">Swansong</h1> | ||
32 | <h1 class="subtitle">alternate version</h1> | ||
26 | 33 | ||
27 | <article id="container"> | 34 | </header> |
28 | <header> | ||
29 | <!-- title --> | ||
30 | <h1 class="title">Swansong</h1> | ||
31 | <h1 class="subtitle">alternate version</h1> | ||
32 | |||
33 | |||
34 | </header> | ||
35 | |||
36 | <section class="content verse"> | ||
37 | <p>This poem is dry like <a href="time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html">chapped lips</a>.<br /><a href="no-nothing.html">It is hard as teeth</a>—hear the tapping?<br />It is the swan song of beauty, as all<br />swan songs are. <a href="poetry-time.html">Reading</a> it, you are<br />puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed.<br />Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing.<br />A honking over the cliff is all<br />they can do, and that they do<br />badly. You don’t know where I’m going.<br />You want to tell me, <a href="about-the-author.html">You are not you</a>.<br /><a href="swansong.html">You are the air the swan walks on.</a><br />You are the fringe of the curtain<br /><a href="elegyforanalternateself.html">that separates me from you</a>. I say<br />that you are no longer the temple,<br />that you have been through <a href="fire.html">fire</a><br />and are now less than ash. You are<br />the subtraction of yourself from<br />the world, <a href="finding-the-lion.html">the air without a swan</a>.<br />Together, we are each other. You<br />and I have both nothing and everything<br />at once, we own the world and nothing in it.</p> | ||
38 | </section> | ||
39 | </article> | ||
40 | 35 | ||
36 | <section class="content verse"> | ||
37 | <p>This poem is dry like <a href="time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html">chapped lips</a>.<br /><a href="no-nothing.html">It is hard as teeth</a>—hear the tapping?<br />It is the swan song of beauty, as all<br />swan songs are. <a href="poetry-time.html">Reading</a> it, you are<br />puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed.<br />Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing.<br />A honking over the cliff is all<br />they can do, and that they do<br />badly. You don’t know where I’m going.<br />You want to tell me, <a href="about-the-author.html">You are not you</a>.<br /><a href="swansong.html">You are the air the swan walks on.</a><br />You are the fringe of the curtain<br /><a href="elegyforanalternateself.html">that separates me from you</a>. I say<br />that you are no longer the temple,<br />that you have been through <a href="fire.html">fire</a><br />and are now less than ash. You are<br />the subtraction of yourself from<br />the world, <a href="finding-the-lion.html">the air without a swan</a>.<br />Together, we are each other. You<br />and I have both nothing and everything<br />at once, we own the world and nothing in it.</p> | ||
38 | </section> | ||
39 | </article> | ||
41 | <nav> | 40 | <nav> |
42 | <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="Random page"> ◊ </a> | 41 | <a href="#" id="lozenge" title="Random page"> ◊ </a> |
43 | </nav> | 42 | </nav> |
44 | </body> | 43 | </body> |
45 | </html> | 44 | </html> |