Old Notes Refound
In a course textbook on Plato's Symposium, I found a scrap of old notes on yellow paper.
• until the flood recedes, completely • water withdraws meticulously • a slow reveal of decay < final undressing • a slow burn of desire • consequently, finding a stone caught • in the sole of my shoe, • the ache of a raspberry seed trapped in the gums • rasp of breath / gasp of a raspberry in the mouth
• between the cotton and the flesh casual drift of fingertips • finding the source of the river within his clothes • the flaring chiaroscuro in the halfdark of the hotel—barewalls • the heavy backwater brown of his eyes staring close
anfractuous: sinuous, tortuously broken
("tortously"— winding, crooked, twisting)
(not to be confused with "torturous"—pain, unpleasant)
see "Sweeney" Erect" T. S. Eliot
("tortously"— winding, crooked, twisting)
(not to be confused with "torturous"—pain, unpleasant)
see "Sweeney" Erect" T. S. Eliot
Raven waiting for figs to ripen.
see "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" T.S. Eliot
• Nightingales sing without sleep. <folk tradition
• sexual undertones therefore exist
see IBID
see IBID
"My house is a decayed house" (l.7) "Gerontion" Eliot
3406. • trembling hands unduttoning his shirt
• moving within his full embrace,
