Thursday, October 30, 2025

TO A VULCAN by Sherna Com.èrford

 TO A VULCAN

by Sherna Com.èrford

There is a sharing of self,

Reacliing...

Talting...

Joining...

Love.

There is understanding, and quiet pride.

Wild, passionate shouting.

A seelcing and a growing.

Life, and a nurpose in living.

There is sorrow and pain.

A drawing in,

Weeping,


An agony,


Lespair.


Sometimes there is death.


I weep for you. You will not weep for yourself. You lcnow sorrow, have lcnown love,


And deny it.


Is life worth this price?


A man-machine would pay no price.


Would die. What logic bids you live?


La Géante— Charles Baudelaire

 La Géante

Du temps que la Nature en sa verve puissante
Concevait chaque jour des enfants monstrueux,
J'eusse aimé vivre auprès d'une jeune géante,
Comme aux pieds d'une reine un chat voluptueux.

J'eusse aimé voir son corps fleurir avec son âme
Et grandir librement dans ses terribles jeux;
Deviner si son coeur couve une sombre flamme
Aux humides brouillards qui nagent dans ses yeux;

Parcourir à loisir ses magnifiques formes;
Ramper sur le versant de ses genoux énormes,
Et parfois en été, quand les soleils malsains,

Lasse, la font s'étendre à travers la campagne,
Dormir nonchalamment à l'ombre de ses seins,
Comme un hameau paisible au pied d'une montagne.

— Charles Baudelaire


The Giantess

At the time when Nature with a lusty spirit
Was conceiving monstrous children each day,
I should have liked to live near a young giantess,
Like a voluptuous cat at the feet of a queen.

I should have liked to see her soul and body thrive
And grow without restraint in her terrible games;
To divine by the mist swimming within her eyes
If her heart harbored a smoldering flame;

To explore leisurely her magnificent form;
To crawl upon the slopes of her enormous knees,
And sometimes in summer, when the unhealthy sun

Makes her stretch out, weary, across the countryside,
To sleep nonchalantly in the shade of her breasts,
Like a peaceful hamlet below a mountainside.

— William Aggeler, The Flowers of Evil (Fresno, CA: Academy Library Guild, 1954)


Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Dada poem

You And no one is going to be an American citizen.

I want to be a good reason to get better than your parents!

The only thing that you wake up is is a critique of the rings of popcorn.

It was pretty much the same stuff as being anything.


you are familiar with your disagreement with potato chips

The only thing that you wake in space and is a critique for the book.

It depends on what you want to say.

Merry Christmas