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Dogs are beacons for the fantasist –– never reducible to mere appetite and exchange.

A purely transactional relationship with a dog is a draining curse.

Conditionals

'Sustainability' suggests permeable defenses, occulted valor and melancholy.

It's like the final opiate light ebbing in Altman's McCabe & Mrs Miller.

Mere Words

That minority is the life of poetry, and also its cruelty. We know this, while holding to the curse.

It can't possibly be an epithet –– but an essence.

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That within the poem a coming to terms may also mean a refusal to concede.

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That the poem may not observe through decorum.

Seven Words into Part One of Thomas Browne's Christian Morals

The word "funambulatory."

Like a silver thread through a laughing key.

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That at the back of the thought that the poet is defeated by description there is a theory of labor.

One After Three After Racine

The fitness of an argument is its grimmer muscle.

One shouldn't come to argue for boundedness, as though for responsibility, unless to come for that laughter at stumbling over its tripwires.

Three After Racine

Honor, without honey, is a mere malady.

After honey is honor, and then malapropism.

Honor is too fit, yet sweet after the honey of an argument.

Gatherings

A thin, crimped stuff –– occasional friendship.