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Mark Doty on T. S. Eliot’s widow Valerie Eliot, who presented him with the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Mark Doty on T. S. Eliot’s widow Valerie Eliot, who presented him with the T. S. Eliot Prize.

donshare: Poets Dinner Table (by brblroom26)

donshare:

Poets Dinner Table (by brblroom26)

Lord Alfred Tennyson with an ocelot.

Lord Alfred Tennyson with an ocelot.

Goodbye, Lonesome.

Goodbye, Lonesome.

(Source: poets.org)

Marianne Moore + Parrot

Marianne Moore + Parrot

Ceremony Latin (1964) by Bernadette Mayer, 1975

Ceremony Latin (1964) by Bernadette Mayer, 1975

Pygmy Goat ‘Quaver’ (so called because its ears are curled like the crispy snack)

“The Writerly Text”

from Matthea Harvey’s Of Lamb

from Matthea Harvey’s Of Lamb

from Pablo Neruda’s Bestiary—illustrated by Antonio Frasconi and translated by Elsa Neuberger. I have always been curious about the erotic rabbit. Who excited them and whispers in their genital ears? They procreate endlessly and pay no attention to Saint Francis, they hear no nonsense: the rabbit mounts and remounts with an inexhaustible organism. I wish to speak with the rabbit, I like his flighty habits.

from Pablo Neruda’s Bestiary—illustrated by Antonio Frasconi and translated by Elsa Neuberger.

I have always been curious
about the erotic rabbit.
Who excited them and whispers
in their genital ears?
They procreate endlessly
and pay no attention to Saint Francis,
they hear no nonsense:
the rabbit mounts and remounts
with an inexhaustible organism.
I wish to speak with the rabbit,
I like his flighty habits.