black
Convex with orange
The poets who write of dark cities
Toward monochrome
The magnetizing
Obscene utterance
In words, an utterance imbued with hatred of the uttering body: Edward Taylor’s “A Fig for Thee Oh! Death.”
Without a need for utterance and therefore hateless:
From the history of radiation
It was called uranium glass
and it was radioactive.
In See! In See! In See für ew’ge Zeiten!
Memoir after dark
There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.
— Areopagitica
From the binary stars a whisper
The singer James Joyce, author of a short story about a man who heard distant music, shelved this concert review in Leopold Bloom’s library.
Observing a bewhiskered black body in morning sun, Mr. Bloom remembered nights before and thought, “They shine in the dark, perhaps, the tips.” The hungry black body moved toward him, was captured by his field, and became a satellite. Two desiring bodies making a little island group, his cat and he were seen by a storyteller to be orbiting each other in harmony.
