Source: Waring, George E. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health. New York, NY, 1867.
draining
a condition, more or less clear,
always unmistakable
sometimes standing
dark wet streaks
when dry sometimes
a fluttering distress
curling, cracking, feeble
spindling, shivering
winter stretched its crown
the quarantine—rank growth
dank miasmatic fogs
recognize these indications
of the drainer
remove the causes
Posted by sean on January 27, 2014
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Posted by sean on January 23, 2014
https://sd-stewart.com/2014/01/23/thank-you-wellcome-library/
The double take impregnated desire in both parties. Or did it.
(We’ll suck on that sugar-coated lemon for the remainder of our days.)
In dreams they meshed well, swimmingly even, though waking life led only to the double take, and once a brush of limbs.
Their twinned desire, limned in mind alone, clashed like rutting stags. From their invisibly ravaged bodies a horn or two broke off in a fugue of predestination.
(Perhaps you found one in the woods and thought of them.)
At the party one befriended a dog while the other dematerialized with a stranger.
Stranger things have happened. It’s an old story and doppelgängers may have been involved.
Posted by sean on January 9, 2014
https://sd-stewart.com/2014/01/09/lemonade/
To work deliberately in the form of the fragment can be seen as stopping or appearing to stop a work closer, in the process, to what Blanchot would call the origin of writing, the center rather than the sphere. It may be seen as a formal integration, an integration into the form itself, of a question about the process of writing.
It can be seen as a response to the philosophical problem of seeing the written thing replace the subject of the writing. If we catch only a little of our subject, or only badly, clumsily, incoherently, perhaps we have not destroyed it. We have written about it, written it, and allowed it to live on at the same time, allowed it to live on in our ellipses, our silences.
—from her essay ‘Form as Response to Doubt’ in HOW(ever) Vol 4, No. 2 (October 1987)
Posted by sean on January 7, 2014
https://sd-stewart.com/2014/01/07/lydia-davis-on-fragments/
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