Here Anne will periodically add something that doesn't quite fit in (comfortably) to any other page .
Walter Benjamin said in connection with his Arcade Project in Paris: "Ragpicker and poet: both are concerned with refuse." This has prompted me to write some "convolutes" (Walter Benjamin's word), which for me are poems made up of lines from other prose or poetry. Cosmopolitian has been a rich source for my convolutes. So too real estate catalogs.
"This vast, mad horror, that doesn't know its size, or its strength, or its weakness, or its barbaric speed, stupidity, din self-righteousness, this cancerous Babylon." Dylan Thomas in a letter written from (about) the U.S. to his wife.
"Our bed is lovely, dark, and sweet" (Beddoes, 1803-1849)
In writing the poems that comprise The Eyes Have It, I came across this: "All philosophy is based on two things only: curiosity and poor eyesight." -- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, 1686
"Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling."--T.E. Hulme
“Forth from these snowy hairs we keep up yet the lilt.”—Walt Whitman
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