1 After the dark, the stairs up smell of future. 2 I remember when you disappointed me for the first time. Almonds were blossoming, I was south near the border. They were as exquisitely fragrant as happiness. I learned to stand up straight as a person pursuing it. 3 I was in the water, the water was inside of me. I smell of sea. I am going where the ones who first came out of the ocean are. …
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Three Poems of Out-of-Season Smells * Rob Lowe
Out of Season Sand and stones and the sea Wind and a hazy view Clouds invading the sky Sea defences below Rocks groynes grey promenade Solitary dog-walkers Crash of winter shingle Emptiness you can smell You search for a tissue Turn up your brown collar You appear as closed up As dead shrimps in their shell Green stink of dry seaweed Litter in the old Dingle Whose muddy path threaded Beside a gunged-up stream Broken shopping trolleys A couple of …
Moby-Dick: An Ambergris Digression * Herman Melville * Excerpt
Although it is today considered one of the “great books,” Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick; or, The Whale was not a success during his lifetime. On the contrary, it was a disappointment to his readers that fancied his earlier light-hearted (and largely fictional) travel adventure books set in the South Pacific. During the writing of Moby-Dick (1850-51), Melville met Nathaniel Hawthorne and took time away from his novel in progress to review the short-story collection Mosses From an Old Manse, which just …
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