From d6231aa5524a10e543368115e1376f835aae8b58 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 17:42:38 -0700 Subject: Revise after thesis defense --- text/in-bed.txt | 10 ++++++---- text/riptide_memory.txt | 4 ++-- text/the-night-we-met.txt | 6 +++--- 3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'text') diff --git a/text/in-bed.txt b/text/in-bed.txt index b7be002..dc3e270 100644 --- a/text/in-bed.txt +++ b/text/in-bed.txt @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ project: ## III -| I woke screaming and you +| I [woke screaming][] and you | came to sit next to me. I felt | my eyes were open too wide @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ project: | [there is an eagle][] flying | toward me. She lands on -| my knee and lays an egg. +| [my knee and lays an egg][]. | I think *not this again* | something I've never @@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ project: ## VII -| [You run through me -| like rats][rats] down an alley. +| You run through me +| [like rats][rats] down an alley. | You are in my [blood][]. | You scared me once @@ -142,6 +142,7 @@ project: [I see my reflection is headless]: deathstrumpet.html [and the moon grins down]: moon-drowning.html [rot only for us]: options.html +[woke screaming]: worse-looking-over.html [closed over me like an eyelid]: theoceanoverflowswithcamels.html [in an ocean]: the-sea_the-beach.html [there is an eagle]: mountain.html @@ -149,3 +150,4 @@ project: [rats]: #I [blood]: plant.html [red]: window.html +[my knee and lays an egg]: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/kveng/kvrune01.htm diff --git a/text/riptide_memory.txt b/text/riptide_memory.txt index 177a586..9f5ebe0 100644 --- a/text/riptide_memory.txt +++ b/text/riptide_memory.txt @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ project: | In a dream, [my father is caught by a riptide][] off-shore. | He's pulled far out, far enough that the shoreline's -| a line in his [memory][] on the horizon. I can see him +| a dim line in his [memory][] on the horizon. I can see him | swimming, hand over hand, pulling his small weight | back to land. I see him as [another shipwreck][] victim, @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ project: | pulls me back home, my memory's lonesome twinkle | like [stars above the mountains][]. I'll send for it -| and try to make them, but in the thin air they'll +| and try to make them, but at this altitude they'll | crumble into dust like desert air, like a memory. [an angel of death]: angeltoabraham.html diff --git a/text/the-night-we-met.txt b/text/the-night-we-met.txt index aa6d89c..16987bb 100644 --- a/text/the-night-we-met.txt +++ b/text/the-night-we-met.txt @@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ project: | in the dark, remember? You told me time was | pregnant with all things. I should've said -| something, to draw you out from your place +| something, to draw you out from your safety | in the dark. Remember, you told me time was | only an illusion, [and memory was][] only -| something to draw. You, out from your place, +| something to draw. You, out from your safety, | I out from mine, that night, I believed in you. -| Only illusion and memory were one, lying +| And illusion and memory were one, lying | [down on your couch][], through the night you drew | me out from mine. That night, I believed in you -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81