"If our auditory imaginations were sufficiently tuned to plumb and sound a vowel, to unite the most primitive and civilized associations, the word 'undine' would probably suffice as a poem in itself." Seamus Heaney
Friday, January 28, 2011
Excerpt from a poem by Eugenio Montejo
'Honor the ass, honor his box of butterflies where he stores the blows of God and men and never complains.'
from 'Honor the Ass' in Alphabet of the World, Kirk Nesset transl. 2010
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