From b5f04621a188ffd07463d66c233601a32e970f11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 16:46:17 -0700 Subject: First complete src/ linking complete --- src/last-passenger.txt | 17 ++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/last-passenger.txt') diff --git a/src/last-passenger.txt b/src/last-passenger.txt index 5991ada..9b25ac1 100644 --- a/src/last-passenger.txt +++ b/src/last-passenger.txt @@ -5,10 +5,12 @@ genre: verse project: title: Autocento of the breakfast table css: autocento + +TODO: revise based on reading notes ... -Memory works strangely, spooling its thread \ -over the nails of events barely related, \ +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 \ @@ -17,16 +19,21 @@ 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 \ -one year since we last spoke. Although around \ +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--- +[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, \ +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.html +[into my throat and set me ringing]: weplayedthosegamestoo.html +[beating wings]: cold-wind.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81