He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
Caught between the tongue and the taste.