From 3b37989606c44902d90a3723e197d8c318a302bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:47:42 -0700 Subject: Change verse lines '$' -> '^| ' --- last-passenger.txt | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) (limited to 'last-passenger.txt') diff --git a/last-passenger.txt b/last-passenger.txt index e54a456..5c87e59 100644 --- a/last-passenger.txt +++ b/last-passenger.txt @@ -10,29 +10,29 @@ project: TODO: revise based on reading notes ... -Memory works strangely, [spooling its thread][] \ -over the [nails of events][] barely related, \ -creating finally some picture, if we're \ -lucky, of a life---but more likely, it knots \ -itself, catches on a nail or in our throats \ -that gasp, as it binds our necks, for air. +| Memory works strangely, [spooling its thread][] +| over the [nails of events][] barely related, +| creating finally some picture, if we're +| lucky, of a life---but more likely, it knots +| itself, catches on a nail or in our throats +| that gasp, as it binds our necks, for air. -An example: today marks one hundred years \ -since your namesake, the last living passenger \ -pigeon, died in Cincinnati. It also marks \ -a year since we last spoke. Although around \ -the world, zoos mourn her loss, I'm done \ -with you. I mourn no more your voice, the first \ -sound I heard outside my body that reached \ -[into my throat and set me ringing][]. But that string--- +| An example: today marks one hundred years +| since your namesake, the last living passenger +| pigeon, died in Cincinnati. It also marks +| a year since we last spoke. Although around +| the world, zoos mourn her loss, I'm done +| with you. I mourn no more your voice, the first +| sound I heard outside my body that reached +| [into my throat and set me ringing][]. But that string--- -memory that feels sometimes more like a tide \ -has yoked together, bound your voice to that bird, \ -the frozen, stuffed, forgotten pigeon---my heart \ -is too easy, but it must do---to blink, to flex \ -its unused toes, slowly thaw to the wetness \ -of [beating wings][], fly to me again, and alight, \ -singing full-throated, on my broken shoulder. +| memory that feels sometimes more like a tide +| has yoked together, bound your voice to that bird, +| the frozen, stuffed, forgotten pigeon---my heart +| is too easy, but it must do---to blink, to flex +| its unused toes, slowly thaw to the wetness +| of [beating wings][], fly to me again, and alight, +| singing full-throated, on my broken shoulder. [spooling its thread]: roughgloves.html [nails of events]: when-im-sorry-i.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81