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Friday, June 20, 2025

Jane Austin's AnagraMania

It is a truth universally acknowledged...
...everyone's Thula duck lard...? It's a-wilting... 

(It seems Mr. Darcy owns a pineapple plantation / fois gras factory on Oahu which he's dubb'd Thula.. .)

Longfellow's AnagraMania

Tell me not in mournful numbers... 
..."Mull 'n' burn fourteen mint moles..."

(Nobody tells Henry Wadsworth how to prepare his signature blacken'd moles.)

Look Who's Talking: A Prose Poem in Four Brief Scenes

Exterior. A dusky wood. Night.  Middle-aged writer Dante Alighieri  avoids a trio of hungry beasts with  aid  from the Roman poet Virgil. Th...