From 96ab7a3ce522f38a768e67c73021bf1071832a37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:04:05 -0700 Subject: Add Paul; move source files to src/ --- src/and.txt | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/and.txt (limited to 'src/and.txt') diff --git a/src/and.txt b/src/and.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..645f0c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/and.txt @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +--- +title: And +genre: verse + +epigraph: + content: | + "What is your favorite word?" + "And. It is so hopeful." + attrib: Margaret Atwood + link: 'http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/oct/28/margaret-atwood-q-a' + +project: + title: Elegies for alternate selves + css: elegies + order: 3 + next: + - title: Words and meaning + link: words-meaning + prev: + - title: How to read this + link: howtoread +... + +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 + +[church]: boar.html +[grieving something gone]: roughgloves.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81