due to the disciplines of scansion
"Due to the Disciplines of Scansion," August 28, 2022 (#240)
title from "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away" by Stephen King (2001)
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing (1962)
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt (2013)
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman (2003)
one line from The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks (1996)
one line from "On Keeping a Notebook" by Joan Didion (1968)
last line from Golden Years by Stephen King (1991)
Due to the Disciplines of Scansion
I clambered through nettles and blackjacks, because
adrift in an air of charged significance, doubt struck
renegade theologians who postulated the existence of numerous
refugees in strange countries. I shall live for the rest of
a normal family with three siblings, a Weimaraner named
and full of wild forms and sounds that were confusing in their
turning silver with the reflection of the moon. As they thickened,
only the cicadae and a distant pigeon sang. And past the
three or four occasions when distrustful collectors had
the wood drying rack where hung row upon row of gutted fish--
merely some memory of something once read, probably
that's as good a place as any to start.
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