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a something of adrift, a draft
 

There is a new fiber, a something of cedar in  
a ‘something’ of red dust than the ‘nothing’ of holiness, I’d rather have  
and still with a something of mellowness.
 
There is a combination of soft salmon pink,
“picked out,” to use the common phrase.  
The walls are mostly bare,
 
with a few items that change regularly —  
neither Souls nor Bodies; they are no more than the faithful Shadows of themselves,
a Something of too refined and subtle a Nature to be touched —  
 
The wall is a something of a sketchbook for me,  
a something of linen or woollen to cover the straw on which they lie,  
a something of nearly transparent linen and lace that started somewhere round  
 
in the sea of words submerged.
A something of small account at any time;
of no account at all when it comes to  
 
‘A Something else thereby’;
‘A something of Four’  
how language is such a dust   ₁₀
 

sources

  1. Ernest Hartsock on Louis Untermeyer his Burning Bush (1928), in Bozart 1:6 (Atlanta, Georgia; July-August 1928) : 17 / more
  2. Catherine Dai, Under the Phoenix Tree (1990) : 176 / more
  3. Rosamund Marriott Watson, The Art of the House (London, 1897) : 16 / more
  4. interview with Peter Hall, in feature on same, in Marc Valli and Richard Brereton, eds., RGB : Reviewing Graphics in Britain (2010) : 268-273 (269) / more
  5. “Supplement to the Dissertations on the Religion of the Banians,” in Bernard Picart, Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Idolatrous Nations; together with Historical Annotations, And several Curious Discourses Equally Instructive and Entertaining. Vol. IV. Part II. (London, 1733) : 90 / more
  6. Poor Inquiry, Ireland Appendix E : Containing Baronial Examinations Relative to Food, Cottages and Cabins, Clothing and Furniture, Pawnbroking and Savings Banks, Drinking [supplement to] (Parliamentary Papers, v. 32; London, 1836) : 104/ more
  7. Bart Spicer, The Wild Ohio (Bantam Giant A1211, 1954) : 83 / more
  8. “The Training of Engineers,” in The Engineer (August 18, 1899) : 170 / more
  9. Michael Cotsell, on titles contemplated for what would be Quartet in Autumn (1977) in his chapter “Language and Loneliness : The Late Novels” of Barbara Pym (1989) : 122 / more
  10. Lisa Robertson. Riverwork (2026) : 36 / more
     

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