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I’m watching Night of the Iguana, thinking about how awesome Deborah Kerr is and it occured to me:

Seven years ago I wanted to be Blanche DuBois Four years ago I wanted to be Alma Winemiller Two years ago I wanted to be The Woman in Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen Now I want to be Hannah Jelkes

Hart Crane

By a peninsula the wanderer sat and sketched

The uneven valley graves. While the apostle gave

Alms to the meek the volcano burst

With sulphur and aureate rocks …

For joy rides in stupendous coverings

Luring the living into spiritual gates.

Orators follow the universe

And radio the complete laws to the people.

The apostle conveys thought through discipline.

Bowls and cups fill historians with adorations,-

Dull lips commemorating spiritual gates.

The wanderer later chose this spot of rest

Where marble clouds support the sea

And where was finally borne a chosen hero.

By that time summer and smoke were past.

Dolphins still played, arching the horizons,

Kaoru Yamada

Dendrobium loddigesii.

Orchidaceae: Dendrobiinae.