From cbd5199529209059be3bde0d6572a1ba192b84d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:22:15 -0700 Subject: Add Elegies; template; pandoc compile script --- 09-and.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) create mode 100644 09-and.txt (limited to '09-and.txt') diff --git a/09-and.txt b/09-and.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..09e82ca --- /dev/null +++ b/09-and.txt @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +--- +title: 'And' +project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' +epigraph: | +"What is your favorite word?" +"And. It is so hopeful." +... + +And you were there in the start of it all \ +and you folded your hands like little doves \ +that would fly away like an afterthought \ +and you turned to me the window light on your face \ +and you asked me something that I did not recognize \ +like a great throng of people who are not you \ +and I asked are we in a church \ +and you answered with the look on your face \ +of someone grieving something gone for years \ + but that they had been reminded of \ +by a catch in the light or in someone's voice \ +and I think maybe it could have been mine \ +and I looked away thickly my head was in jelly \ +and I didn't get an answer from you but I got one + +I looked at the man in front of us with glasses \ +he was speaking and holding a book \ +and I didn't understand him he was far away \ +and I could tell I was missing something important \ +and you nodded to yourself at something he said -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81