Thursday, August 11, 2011

This is not Russell Edson's "The Sardine Can Dormitory" (1977)


A man opens a sardine can and finds a row of tiny cots full of tiny
dead people; it is a dormitory flooded with oil.
He lifts out the tiny bodies with a fork and lays them on a slice
of bread; puts a leaf of lettuce over them, and closes the sandwich
with another slice of bread.
He wonders what he should do with the tiny cots; wondering if
they are not eatable, too?
He looks into the can and sees a tiny cat floating in the oil. The
bottom of the can, under the oil, is full of little shoes and stockings.

And I know that many people have said this before me, but this is not a pipe either.

A

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The New Sentence


Pretty words I found reading Ron Silliman.

Some of them, he meant to write but didn't get to.

hallucinated

dreamlike

interwoven

emphasis

closure

rhythm

absence

shaping

syllogistic move

deduce


huracán


emotional


The sentence is the horizon,


border

torque

polysemy


silencio

líquido


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