dennis scharnberg

admiring corn pop

Poison of drink__ / ____ / Poison of [mind]__ / __the shouting of soldiers__ /

Hildegarde Busby, tr., Latin Epigraph Fragments.

passport to glory

Into the valley__ / The first valley__ / So many items covered in gold__ /

Hildegarde Busby, tr., Latin Epigraph Fragments.

the cleansing tsunami

“…a wall of words, a hall of words, a stall of words, and, yes, as we all know, a tower of words.”

Silas Wegg, School of Dust.

the grimpen mire

“Try to remember, Mr. Spaulding, that objects are closer than they appear in the mirror.”

Ralston Dowd, A Spot of Bother.

parody of emptiness

The syllogism does not care.

Thomas Bedlam, Jackdaws and the Problem of Speech.

gift of debt

Expressionism: when selfhood eclipses the merely natural.

Clinton Arbogast, The Saints of Painting.

day day dawes

“Allen Ginsberg would never lie, Julie. We know that from a dozen sources.”

Brooks Westerby, Squaresville.

what actually happened

It is the word “line” that misleads us. It is not line of reasoning, but circle of reasoning.

Daniel Brasso, The Infinite Regress.

one happy boy

Reality lacks assumptions.

Clem Tartessos, Designing the Past.

digging a ditch

All this was written in a letter, found—still in its envelope—amid other papers and various small rock samples inside an iron strongbox, resting on the floorboards of a most unlikely attic.

Talbot Smalls, Barnacle Bill in Macao.