A new project

Today, while working on some questions for a roundtable in my Gospel of Mark class, I was struck with a poem. It fell together from the poetry reading I attended yesterday, going out with a friend afterward, and the old Tapestry podcast I was listening to while I was supposed to be working, about the lost word “acedia.” The poem seemed to come to an end, but I feel that more will follow it as further poems fall similarly together.

I’m thinking of calling it all “Romanticise me.”

It’s heavy with imagery and self-reflexive romanticism. It is a portrait of the artist, perhaps in the popular mode, perhaps as Bacchus. You can find the first installment, and subsequent ones, here: Romanticise me.