#ode to man

[trixclibrarian]

buried earth

sleep a few

sleep a few hours past tragedy

to short stories in verse

the short

story’s inverse

one man’s ode

or all women’s

curse

[gracezanotti]

Many terribly quiet customers exist but none more terribly quiet than Man his footsteps pass so perilously across the sea in marble winter up the stiff blue waves and every Tuesday down he grinds the unastonishable earth with horse and shatter shatters too the cheeks of birds and traps them in his forest headlights salty silvers roll into his net, he weaves it just for that, this terribly quiet customer he dooms animals and mountains technically by yoke he makes the bull bend, the horse to its knees and utterance and thought as clear as complicated air and moods that make a city moral, these he taught himself the snowy cold he knows to flee and every human exigency crackles as he plugs it in every outlet works but one Death stays dark

Anne Carson, Antigonick

[thatsagoodword]

δεινός

terrible, horrible, fearful, astounding, awesome, marvelous, wondrous, strange, able, clever