#all of Hideous Hidden is so good but the Midwinter the Cut-Time section is just. i love it SO fucking much

[laurelnose]

Sylvia Legris is a plenty successful poet as is but I do feel that she should have more Tumblr cachet. Like. Locked Tomb girlies look at these bone verses

Details of Articulated Skeletons, c. 1510

Memento marrow. The treacherous thread of the unnamed. The flourish-stripped reunion of broken parts.

The polymathematician (the osteo-horoscopist) plumbs the anonymous bones, the forlorn unspoken-for. Lead white, bianco di piombo, the poisonous orbit. An algebraic

of discrete desecration. Cancellous bone, cortical bone, an innominately rising hip bone. The acrimonious split of the acromion from the scapular spine. Explode the view . . .

Exploit the post-medieval zodiac. A moon-distending thorax; the gibbosity of the humeral head. The anteriorly tilting ascent of the pelvic girdle. False false ribs and the acute

angle of descent of rib one and rib two. Memento mori. Woe betide the Renaissance bonesetter. Bone-beset.

#all of Hideous Hidden is so good but the Midwinter the Cut-Time section is just. i love it SO fucking much #more than i can articulate. you know how it is. read the poetry that's the explanation you get it or you don't #i rank the collections Hideous Hidden > Nerve Squall > Garden Physic > Circuitry of Veins #Nerve Squall you can tell she hasn’t quite hit her style stride yet like she has in Hidden #but i prefer it to Garden Physic just bc aesthetically Garden leans much more heavily on herbalism and the plant organ #than either Nerve Squall or Hidden. and you know me. all organs are good but I prefer the bleeding kind #i am simply not really the intended audience for Circuitry of Veins tho' i do like many bits of it #and i don't have a copy of iridium veins or pneumatic antiphonal yet... but someday... #laurelnose.txt #poetry #(im going to title a MoE fic ‘an algebraic of discrete desecration’ one of these days and itll be about exactly what u might expect)