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09/03/21 • poem made from the handout for a lecture on the fragmentary historical sources and missing tomb of alexander the great

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/09/20/emily-wilson-iliad-translation-terms/

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I haven't had much time to do art since starting a new job a couple months ago, but things have calmed down a bit, so you can also get in touch with any custom requests/commissions

by Sylvia Plath

The scene stands stubborn: skinflint trees Hoard last year’s leaves, won’t mourn, wear sackcloth, or turn To elegiac dryads, and dour grass Guards the hard-hearted emerald of its grassiness However the grandiloquent mind may scorn Such poverty. No dead men’s cries

Flower forget-me-nots between the stones Paving this grave ground. Here’s honest rot To unpick the heart, pare bone Free of the fictive vein. When one stark skeleton Bulks real, all saints’ tongues fall quiet: Flies watch no resurrections in the sun.

in memory of Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946-2023), remembered as a prolific author, poet, and lesbian-feminist activist. view her works here.

weeping over this inscription i found in my secondhand copy of Maurice:

THE LORD OF THE RINGS by J.R.R. Tolkien. Art binding and box by Dimitris Koutsipetsidis (2022). Book cover designs by Mia Heath. One of a kind.