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 --- 26-roughgloves.txt | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) create mode 100644 26-roughgloves.txt (limited to '26-roughgloves.txt') diff --git a/26-roughgloves.txt b/26-roughgloves.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3824799 --- /dev/null +++ b/26-roughgloves.txt @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: 'Rough gloves' +project: 'Elegies for Alternate Selves' +... + +I lost my hands & knit replacement ones \ +from spiders' threads, stronger than steel but soft \ +as lambs' wool. Catching as they do on nails \ +& your collarbone, you don't seem to like \ +their rough warm presence on your cheek or thigh. \ +I've asked you if you minded, you've said no \ +(your face a table laid with burnt meat, bread \ +so stale it could break a hand). Remember \ +your senile mother's face above that table? \ +I'd say she got the meaning of that look. \ +You'd rather not be touched by these rough gloves, \ +the only way I have to knit a love \ +against whatever winters we may enter \ +like a silkworm in a spider's blackened maw. -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81