poem of the day

Yesterday's, actually, but I liked it enough to want to remember it, and to share it.

Louis MacNeice - Snow

The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was
Spawning snow and pink roses against it
Soundlessly collateral and incompatible:
World is suddener than we fancy it.

World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.

And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world
Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes —
On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands —
There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.

poem of the day

Yesterday's, actually, but I liked it enough to want to remember it, and to share it.

Louis MacNeice - Snow

The room was suddenly rich and the great bay-window was
Spawning snow and pink roses against it
Soundlessly collateral and incompatible:
World is suddener than we fancy it.

World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.

And the fire flames with a bubbling sound for world
Is more spiteful and gay than one supposes —
On the tongue on the eyes on the ears in the palms of one's hands —
There is more than glass between the snow and the huge roses.

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Happy birthday spwebdesign!

And, y'know, if anyone else derspatchel had hypothetically had a birthday derspatchel sometime in the last day or so derspatchel, then I would hypothetically be wishing them a happy birthday too derspatchel. No big deal or anything.

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Happy birthday spwebdesign!

And, y'know, if anyone else derspatchel had hypothetically had a birthday derspatchel sometime in the last day or so derspatchel, then I would hypothetically be wishing them a happy birthday too derspatchel. No big deal or anything.