Vice and Verses: Well Read :

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Well Read :

My degenerative eyes
scan the horizon.

Troubled words
waver to and fro
like dust motes,

half-quotes,

and, lapsed Catholics.

My syntax
no longer bothers me. Every
thing
is taken in
stride.

The bills
are paid
now

with closed eyes.

`x~William-copyright 06*27*09

2 comments:

gerry boyd said...: Simply Bravo!; June 27, 2009 at 9:41 AM
William H. Balzac said...: Thanks, Gerry. Your comments mean a lot. :); June 28, 2009 at 4:38 PM

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On My Night Table:

"The Clinton Tapes," by Taylor Branch[10/05/09]
"Four and Twenty Blackbirds," By Cherie Priest [09/23/09]
"Border Songs," by Jim Lynch [09/18/09]
"Inherent Vice," by Thomas Pynchon [09/08/09]
"The Whole Five Feet," by Chistopher R. Beha [09/08/09]
"Perforated Heart," by Eric Bogosian [08/13/09]
"Casanova," by Ian Kelly [08/10/09]
"The Women",by TC Boyle (08/06/09)
"Family Properties", by Beryl Satter [08/04/09]
"Brodeck" [A Novel], by Philippe Claudel
"A Monster's Notes," by Laurie Sheck [7/20/09]
Love and Obstacles (Stories), by Aleksandar Hemon [7/14/09]
Essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson [7/14/09]
"The Lives of The Muses," by Francine Prose [7/10/09]
"Sunnyside," by Glen David Gold [6/27/2009]
"Italian Shoes," by Henning Mankell [6/16/2009]
"Austerlitz," by W.G. Sebald [6/10]
"Censoring An Iranian Love Story," by Shahriar Mandanipour [5/23/09]
"Columbine," by Dave Cullen [5/12]
"Becoming Enlightened," by His Holiness the Dalai Lama [5/04]
"American Rust," by Philipp Meyer [4/25]
"Lark & Termite," by Jayne Anne Phillips [3/26]
"2666", by Roberto Bolano [3/25]
"The End," by Salvatore Scibona [3/19]
"Flannery," {a life of Flannery O'Connor} by, Brad Gooch [3/19]
"Home," by Marilynne Robinson
"The School on Heart's Content Road," by Carolyn Chute
"The Savage Detectives," by Roberto Bolano
"Incendiary," by Chris Cleave
"Little Bee," by Chris Cleave