5 June 1584: Francis Hubert future #poet matriculates #otd at New College Oxford. His verse life of Edward II, written in the 1590s, was published in 1628 & 1629 (eebo) - when the subject of royal favourites was a hot topic.
Elizabeth Cary finished her own Edward II in 1627.
Are we vehicles
to propagate
nucleic acids,
or scaffolding
for feet that they
might erode the
topsoil, create
riverbeds, canyons,
or are we a chassis
for lungs that exhale
and push air and
move butterflies
effectively?
Having yesterday leftovers
today. I don’t feel meant
for the moment. Glances
and hollow helloes in the
back of the fridge, mossy.
Tough stuff thrown into
pot luck for simmering.
Achievements seem wilted.
We can always microwave.
Nutrition negligible. Chow
now, somehow.
I’m wearing sleeves
on my insides. All the
uncool kids are
internalizing shirts,
and well-dressed
emotions with
pocket squares
are nominated
for awards. They
like them. They
really really
like them. And
the award goes to
How is it possible to
have writers block?
I’ve been trying to
stop the words for
years. Nasty, insidious
things.
Oh I closed my mind,
but they bribed the
doorman. More like
I’m in the elevator
and words want
to talk. “How’s
yer day?”, they
ask. I’m jabbing
L, repeatedly.
Then <>
.
23 May 1619: William Morrell #poet author of a poem on the natural history of New England with 'a description of the natures, orders, habits, and religion of the natives' ordained deacon at #Peterborough#otd
22 May 1589: Edmund Spenser #poet gains official possession of Kilcolman Castle #Cork#otd at a rent of £20, settles 6 householders there with their families ((C-Kilcol/PCC)
#Poet Robert Creeley was born on this day in 1926 and this poem could not be more timely for this historical moment. And Creeley uses his line-breaks here the way Charlie Parker used his sax, to cut.