Poetry
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Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 02
Here’s the link to the second segment of the poem: https://youtube.com/shorts/0mONfMt10zM?si=YcCE3WCBilmfJ3BB And the link to the print version of the poem: https://jakedepeuterpoetics.com/2024/07/28/i-never-thought-as-i-carried-her-over-the-threshold/ Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xx
robbers and the rulersof the domains through which you’d gothey watch the roads for passing fortunes they can seizeor for fortunate people they can spend on a ransom rather than four guilders paid at the first of each of the five months that followpay for the first three months when he signsand for the last Continue reading
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Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 01
With some encouragement of friends I’ve decided to video record myself speaking segments of “i never thought as i carried her over the threshold.” I’d hoped to record the entire poem at one point, but that was before my chronic shortness of breath due to COPD. The reason I post the video by sharing the Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) ixx
an apprentice should be tempted to abandon his apprenticeship pay double what’s paid to an apprentice four guilders when he signsor makes his mark at the bottom of the page Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xviii
to the bottom of a first page of parchment sew the topof a secondand to the bottom of the second sewthe top of a thirdsew until the page islong enough to host the names of two thousand menand beside their names their signatures or their marks Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xvii
xviitell him you want to find a man like heone who plays watten1 at a table in a tavernwho sits naked in the smock he sleeps ina nightshirt bought from a ragmanwhite linen unwashed time yellowed tannedby fireplace smoke and sweattrousers fadedto beige and threadbarebarefoota squatter from an abandoned housewith a wife to return to Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xvi
want his wife to behis accomplice who removesthe purse from the pouchthe brooch on a chain from the neckthe ruby on the ring from the finger removesthe doublet of brocade from the torsothe pluderhosen (1) made of silk from the trunkpointed poulaines (2) from the feet wanthis wife to chew a leaf of henbane (3) Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xv
go ask if you can join the gamehe’ll see in you onewith whom he can play a hidden cardhe’ll nod at a vacant chairlet him win a hand or twothen after he’s played the seven of acornsbefore you lay the seven of bells on the table get the eye that looks at his cards confident Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xiv
Between wars, soldiers might turn to highway robbery to supplement their income. In this fiction, Horatio councils John George to find a highwayman who has stolen things to sell— the intent is not to buy, but to recruit….xivtodaybefore someonethe virgin queen of england sayreceives a letter that proposes nora’s dowry for one of her nephewsgo Continue reading
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(the horatio monologues) xiii
Between wars in early modern Europe, soldiers often were idle and sometimes engaged in criminal activity. It wasn’t unusual for commanders to rid towns, villages, and the country of undesirables by recruiting them.xiiiimpress charm recruit a highwayman on horsebacka fugitive on foot Continue reading
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