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Saturday, December 1, 2018

A Silkie Song for Saturday

Posted by sarah toa at 2:25 PM

Labels: The Seal Wife, the Selkie, WineDark

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RCAJanuary 3, 2019 at 10:52 PM
this is so great!
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'Passing now.
A side-eye view at my Hamlet hat. If I were suddenly naked here as I sit?
Across the sands of the world, followed by the sun's flaming sword, to the West, trekking to ancient lands. she trudges, schlepps, trains, drags, trascines her load. A tide westering, moondrawn, in her wake.
Tides, myriadislanded, within her, blood not mine, oinopa ponton, a wine dark sea. Behold the handmaid of the moon. In sleep a wet sign calls her hour, bids her rise.
Bridebed, childbed, bed of death, ghostcandled. Omnis caro ad te veniet.
He comes, pale vampire, through storm his eyes, his bat sails bloodying the sea, mouth to her mouth's kiss .... mouth to her mouth's kiss.'

James Joyce, Ulysses, Penguin, London, 1968, pg. 53.

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