From e0b1c2737397839ff5ba8c129d31baf6f97805fe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:10:17 -0700 Subject: Finish linking Elegy, Hezekiah; Rename files --- i-am.txt | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100644 i-am.txt (limited to 'i-am.txt') diff --git a/i-am.txt b/i-am.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f890283 --- /dev/null +++ b/i-am.txt @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +--- +title: I am +genre: verse + +project: + title: Elegies for alternate selves + css: elegies + order: 13 + prev: + title: On formal poetry + link: onformalpoetry + next: + title: How it happened + link: howithappened +... + +I am a great pillar of [white smoke][]. \ +I am Lot's nameless wife encased in salt. \ +I am the wound on Christ's back as he moans \ +with the pounding of a hammer on his wrist. \ +I am the nail that holds my house together. \ +It is a strong house, built on a good foundation. \ +In the winter, it is warm and crawling things \ +cannot get in. This house will never burn down. \ +It is the house that I built, with my body \ +and with my strength. I am the only one who lives \ +here. I am both father and mother to a race \ +of dust motes that worship me as a god. I have \ +monuments built daily in my honor in dark \ +corners around the house. I destroy all of them \ +before I go to bed, but in the morning \ +there are still more. I don't think I know \ +where all of them are. I [don't think][not think] I can get \ +to all of them anymore. There are too many. + +[white smoke]: deathstrumpet.html +[not think]: howithappened.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81