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Anachronism as Intertextuality
Cast back the line
With your tongue as hook,
Pulling Pound into Homer.
Grim-gripping sages
Cut epochs like mastodon meat.
But time is gristled sinew
Thought pulled tau(gh)t
Across a flexing membrane
Of growth and rot.
Answer Homeric Shame with Christian Guilt!
Call Mary Shelley a Modernist!
Shapes of yesteryear cast shadows forward,
but shadows dance both ways.
With your tongue as hook,
Pulling Pound into Homer.
Grim-gripping sages
Cut epochs like mastodon meat.
But time is gristled sinew
Thought pulled tau(gh)t
Across a flexing membrane
Of growth and rot.
Answer Homeric Shame with Christian Guilt!
Call Mary Shelley a Modernist!
Shapes of yesteryear cast shadows forward,
but shadows dance both ways.
Published 18th Apr 2018
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18th Apr 2018 3:12pm
Oh damn! This gripped me but that last line drove it home. Indeed they do. Indeed they do.
