is conjugate to the liminal (a poem)

…is conjugate to the liminal

Back then through Cathedral Stations; muster back through Candleford.
And the hours, the minutes that draw out each hour, absurd.
Exchange dustbin palliative for dulcet narrative;
populate by way of coulisse-whisperings and accordion-overheards, quietened,
shy of substance, yet, in their own fashion, heaven-tense- to a word.

Airstruck amidst dwindled fervor: we split Spring’s great green spokes.
One for one, we held the door and blessed the transom with formula,
with ceremony, with such mathematical precision as to be phenomena….
amphisbaena equations in low-ash , “it must consume its own smoke…”




-d w stojek

le baiser fantôme

THE VIRTUAL ANTHOLOGY -Installment four

Langston Hughes
"A Quiet Girl"

Sylvia Plath
"The Munich Mannequins"

Emily Dickinson
"A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"

William Butler Yeats
"The Second Coming"

and for our final entry of the week

Arthur Rimbaud
"Les Illuminations"

THE VIRTUAL ANTHOLOGY -Installment three

Theodore Roethke's
"The Waking"

T. S Eliot's
"The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

Vladimir Nabokov's
"Pale Fire"

Andrew Marvell's
"To His Coy Mistress"

and last but not least

Ezra Pound's
"In a Station of the Metro"

THE VIRTUAL ANTHOLOGY -Installment two

d w, here again with installment two of the virtual anthology:

X. J. kennedy's
"Nothing in Heaven Functions as it Ought"

Sei Shonogan's
"The Pillow Book"

Robert Frost's
"Acquainted with the Night"

Peter Handke
"The Song of Childhood"

William Empson's
"Let it Go"

addressed by the emblematic moon...

THE VIRTUAL ANTHOLOGY -Installment one

I have found myself washed upon the island of Manhattan with much less room than Prospero had for his library. A simple 'drats' will not do... By way of solution I would like to offer 'The Virtual Anthology', a selection of poems that will, weekly, grow. Some will be more less popular, but these are the hors d'oeuvres I have cobbled into a meal. ~ d w Stojek

Geoffrey Hill's
"Ovid in the Third Reich"

Stevie Smith's
"Waving Not Drowning"

Hart Crane's
"Chaplinesque"

Andre Breton's and Phillipe Soupault's
"The Magnetic Fields"

and the final entry for today is W H Auden's,
"In Praise of Limestone"