“can i feel you? are you mythological?” – Julia Holter (‘Feel You’)
always been a favourite of mine, especially due to Holter’s intonation. i’ve been considering it recently in relation to:
“no i’m not impossible to touch – i have never wanted you so much, come here.” – kath bloom (‘Come Here’)
i love how this line switches perspectives and modes so effectively – the first half a negation of someone else’s tentative thought, the second a fierce assertion, followed by a final demand. rarely have i seen a sentence so concrete and direct, each clause building upon the last to drive home the point: shut up – come here.
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“[…] We are all talkers
It is true, but underneath the talk lies
The moving and not wanting to be moved, the loose
Meaning, untidy and simple like a threshing floor.” – John Ashbery (‘Soonest Mended’)
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i’m beginning to like ashbery a little – this poem in particular, as well as ‘Some Trees’ which is beautiful. this line reminds me of:
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“I am soft sift
In an hourglass—at the wall
Fast, but mined with a motion, a drift,
And it crowds and it combs to the fall.” – gerard manley hopkins (‘The Wreck of the Deutschland’)
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but i’m not sure why.
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posts will be clearer from this point on.
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