here is how i want to use twitter. i will tell all of you about a poem that i think is good. then you will all say "yes this is a good poem" in unison. that's it
@ThePickleman4 okay but i just googled this guy to figure out why he was so aggro in the crossword comments & found this tweet lmao
barry ancona who are you what is your deal!!!!!!
In this world
love has no color–
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours
世中に戀てふ色はなけれども深く身にしむ物にぞありける
-Izumi Shikibu 和泉式部 (b. 976)
from Ink Dark Moon, translations by Jane Hirshfield w Mariko Aratani
#everynightapoem#iro
I learn so much from novels. Types of knots, types of boats, types of whales, parts of whales, methods for processing whales, what can be made from whale, shape of whale, what the whale did, the whale's likely motivation, color of said whale, metaphysical ramifications of said co
@sympatheticopp@demiurgently extremely normal reply to myself, not even a year late, don't worry about it: i don't know why i said dunsinane this should have been inverness & if i don't correct this now i will be embarrassed for the rest of my life
@DRMacIver the only way i remember this is bc "bullish" sounds like "ebullient" to me, but this is a terrible mnemonic if the association is not automatic