In the land of "attar of carexhaust catcorpse and cookinggrease"
How not to love a poem that begins with the word "Dawndrizzle" and ends with a series of other compound words or kennings?
Slumbers now slumtrack unstinks coolingIn the middle there is a striking image of female potency.
waiting brief for milkmaid mornstar and worldrise
bigthewed Saxonwives stepping over buttriversGot to take a look for yourself at this rather
waddling back wienerladen to suckle smallfry
I am left with a lexical quandry.
Alongside in lanenooks carling and lemanTrying to understand "carling and leman". leman = lover. carling = timbers in a ship sustaining the deck. Could we have here a misprint for "darling"?
caterwaul and clip careless of Saxonry
with moonglow and haste and a higher heartbeat
And so for day 1529
19.02.2011