Announcement

Literalism:

"A psychoanalyst might say that the landscape displayed "homosexual tendencies," but I will not draw such a crass anthropomorphic conclusion. I will merely say 'it was there.'

-Robert Smithson

further...

ON A BAROQUE CLOCK

Miniature Greek gods support the Roman hour,
having nothing else to do, or hold
some dead white grapes to girlish smiles
as the time runs around in a gold ring.
Orpheus plays a lyre. Eurydice reclines,
as if the ticking clock was hell's upholstery,
not chalk-faced onyx cast with runes.
Ah Orpheus, dead youth, this is a result
of marriage: when art and wealth conspire,
like Greece and Rome, to demonstrate
that clocks count, you singers lose
maturity, voice, and size, and have to freeze.

-Alan Dugan

Just to say that there is raging and roiling.