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/swansong.txt | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 35 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/swansong.txt (limited to 'src/swansong.txt') diff --git a/src/swansong.txt b/src/swansong.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..80417f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/swansong.txt @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +--- +title: Swan song +genre: verse + +project: + title: Elegies for alternate selves + css: elegies + order: 24 + prev: + title: The squirrel + link: squirrel + next: + title: Telemarketer + link: telemarketer +... + +Swans fly overhead singing goodbye \ +to we [walkers of the earth][ithappened]. You point \ +to them in formation, you tell me \ +you are not you. You are the air the swans \ +walk on as they journey like pilgrims \ +to a temple in the south. A curtain \ +there separates me from you, swans \ +from the air they fly through. I say \ +that you are no longer the temple, \ +that you have been through fire \ +and are now less than ash. You are \ +a [mirror][] of me, the [air without a swan][trumpet]. \ +Together, we are each other. You \ +and I have both nothing and everything \ +at once. We own the world and nothing in it. + +[ithappened]: howithappened.html +[mirror]: moongone.html +[trumpet]: deathstrumpet.html -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81