Month: May 2022

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Version 1:

Be never EAGER
to NURSE a grudge;
biography’s GENRE
can change given
NEWER information.

Version 2:

NURSE the hope,
EAGER to believe
NEWER joys are coming.
GENRE can change––fiction to non.

See more at Notes by Steven.

Revenge

NURSE revenge into flame, Edmond Dantès, hero of conflicted
GENRE, vigilante tale relenting on its final stretch.
EAGER reader, wanting justice, is swept along in wrath.
NEWER heart gives up its arson at the end—only after anger has blazed lives to cinders.

New Medium

PHASE: Impressionism’s hard-fought vogue, now alight.
FIRST signs photography is gaining force.
“PHOTO”—transcribing light, absent painter’s brush—can it end or fixate
STYLE? Does Daguerre war with artist’s freedom, or will new styles yet shine?

Note: imagining the impressionists, (named for the painting below, exhibited 1874) some years later, their movement having overcome harsh reception by the art establishment. But photography,(Daguerreotype from 1838) was already gathering steam. What would this mean for visual arts?

Boulevard du Temple by Louis Daguerre, ca. 1838 (source: Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulevard_du_Temple_(photograph)

Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet (source: Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression,_Sunrise

Cold Society

AGONY of society should be tempered by kind association, she muses.
FROCK, new, beautiful, sewn for weeks, distraction from the
SCARE of a ball: all those people, and who is a friend? All will
GRILL on her family’s decline. Or worse, coolly snub her.

How Unfirm a Foundation

QUAIL at rising tide, storm-hauled inundation, joined with—strange combination—
DRIER land, cracked and barren, sifted into dust.
GIVEN we, as grasshoppers scoffing winter, devour all in lust,
PLACE is no constant, infirm future no foundation.