On the Daily
“cotton sweaters with the American flag, / Oxford shirts, and riding boots.”
“Frankenstein, an early adopter, fidgets / by firelight”
“The interstitium seems plotless, an entity that, as Auden claimed of poetry, ‘makes nothing happen.’ ”
“He hadn’t been sure if he was supposed to fight back or just take the beating, if he could dodge the blows or cover his face or what, but it wound up not mattering.”
“I loved that Odysseus could transition so easily from being somebody to being nobody, and back again."
“Place a man and a woman in a train carriage together and the mind doggedly closes in—but between him and Katharine there had been something else.”