James Joyce Studies: Feather Train

Joyce: Woodshadows floated silently by through the morning peace from the stairhead seaward where he gazed. Inshore and farther out the mirror of water whitened, spurned by lightshod hurrying feet. White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords. Wavewhite wedded words shimmering on the dim tide.

Feather Train

for Scott Wollschleger:

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by Carl Shoes

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by Leslie Touch

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by Steven Whitaker

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by Freddy Lee

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Gutter Pines

by Jason Towns

in dedication to poetic great, Clifford Duffy

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E.B. White Studies, Ring of Time 2

Her trainer was a woman of about forty, and the two of them, horse and woman, seemed caught up on one of those desultory treadmills of afternoon from which there is no apparent escape. (White 178bc)


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E.B. White Studies, Ring of Time 1

After the lions had returned to their cages, creeping angrily through the cutes, a little bunch of us drifted away and into an open doorway nearby, where we stood for a while in semidarkness, watching a big brown circus horse go harumphing around the practice ring. (White, 178b)


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