Tombstone (Padua)

the poem is ugly & they make it uglier wherein the power resides that duncan did—or didn’t—understand when listening that evening to the other poet read he said “that was pure ugliness” & oh it was i…

The cemetery in the village of Silwan, on the hill east of the City of David, included some aboveground tombs, cut out from the cliffs on three or four sides so that they look like buildings. These…

The year 5573 (1813) was a leap year (in the Jewish calendar). On the twenty-fourth of Nisan, the Sabbath right after Passover, after midday, the skies became overcast and…