Fried Neck Bones & Some Home Fries

The sun was red, the moon was grey

“The sun was red, the moon was grey,
The earth and sky were as two mountains meeting.”

—Dylan Thomas, “From love’s first fever to her plague”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.

Such light shall not illuminate my fears

“Light, I know, treads the ten million stars,
And blooms in the Hesperides. Light stirs
Out of the heavenly sea onto the moon’s shores.
Such light shall not illuminate my fears
And catch a turnip ghost in every cranny.”

—Dylan Thomas, “Light, I know, treads the ten million stars”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.

Children of darkness got no wings

“Children of darkness got no wings,
This we know, we got no wings,
Stay, in a circle chalked upon the floor,
Waiting all vainly this we know.”

—Dylan Thomas, “Children of darkness got no wings”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

A legendary horse with hoof and feather

“And, as we watch, the rainbow’s foot
Stamps on the ground,
A legendary horse with hoof and feather,
Impatient to be off.”

—Dylan Thomas, “Rain cuts the place we tread”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.

the salmon, sucked sun

“Seaward the salmon, sucked sun slips,
And the dumb swans drub blue”

—Dylan Thomas, “Prologue”, The Poems of Dylan Thomas, 1971.

Objectified

American Artifact

white with blue lines

“The pencil I’m writing with is yellow, with the numeral 2. I want to note the tools I’m using, just for the record. . . .
    I have my paper, legal size, white with blue lines. I want to write ten thousand pages. But already I see that I’m repeating myself. I’m repeating myself.”

—Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis, 2003.