the warp and woof

‘But the mingled, mingling threads of life are woven by warp and woof: calms crossed by storms, a storm for every calm. There is no steady, unretracing progress in this life; we do not advance through fixed graduations, and at the last one pause…’

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Jacob Polley, Jackself

'taking turns to gob on the hotplate and consider

each frothy gob’s

bead-dance and shrivel to a brief darkness

on the iron'

Posted by snail at Tuesday, April 18, 2017

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snail: in the beginning was the warp. and the woof. and a word or two. the words at the top of the page are borrowed from Mister Herman Melville. Spoken by Ahab, the quotation can be found in Moby Dick (1851). London: Penguin, 2003. 535.

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