O

First line of Lisa Robertson’s Boat:

Day o pens

That spacing reminds me of one of the topics of Robertson’s Nilling (The Story of O). There Robertson opens:

I open the codex; with skirty murmur, commodiousness arrives.

And a few paragraphs later, Robertson continues:

By commodious I mean: This object furnishes hospitable circumstances for entering and tarrying […]

And I find myself thinking: O pens an o penning.

And so for day 3098
05.06.2015

This entry was posted in Poetry, Uncategorized and tagged . Bookmark the permalink.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.