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/swansong-alt.txt | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'src/swansong-alt.txt') diff --git a/src/swansong-alt.txt b/src/swansong-alt.txt index e9a9eba..1664bba 100644 --- a/src/swansong-alt.txt +++ b/src/swansong-alt.txt @@ -8,24 +8,33 @@ project: css: autocento ... -This poem is dry like chapped lips. \ -It is hard as teeth---hear the tapping? \ +This poem is dry like [chapped lips][]. \ +[It is hard as teeth][]---hear the tapping? \ It is the swan song of beauty, as all \ -swan songs are. Reading it, you are \ -puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed. \ -Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing. \ +swan songs are. [Reading][] it, you are \ +puzzled, perhaps a little repulsed. \ +Swans do not have teeth, nor do they sing. \ A honking over the cliff is all \ they can do, and that they do \ -badly. You don't know where I'm going. \ -You want to tell me, You are not you. \ -You are the air the swan walks on. \ +badly. You don't know where I'm going. \ +You want to tell me, [You are not you][]. \ +[You are the air the swan walks on.][] \ You are the fringe of the curtain \ -that separates me from you. I say \ +[that separates me from you][]. I say \ that you are no longer the temple, \ -that you have been through fire \ -and are now less than ash. You are \ +that you have been through [fire][] \ +and are now less than ash. You are \ the subtraction of yourself from \ -the world, the air without a swan. \ -Together, we are each other. You \ +the world, [the air without a swan][]. \ +Together, we are each other. You \ and I have both nothing and everything \ at once, we own the world and nothing in it. + +[chapped lips]: time-looks-up-to-the-sky.html +[It is hard as teeth]: no-nothing.html +[Reading]: poetry-time.html +[You are not you]: about-the-author.html +[You are the air the swan walks on.]: swansong.html +[that separates me from you]: elegyforanalternateself.html +[fire]: fire.html +[the air without a swan]: finding-the-lion.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81