Quintessence of DustQuintessence of Dust - LiveJournal.comRuminating on the 4th with John Dos Passos- July 4, 2008 There are flags on all the flagpoles up Fifth Avenue. In the shrill wind of history the great flags flap and tug at their lashings on the creaking gold-knobbed poles up Fifth Avenue. The stars jiggle sedately against the slate sky, the red and white stripes writhe against the clouds.In the gale of of brassbands and trampling horses and rumbling clatter of cannon, shadows like the shadows of claws grasp at the taut flags, the flags are hungry tongues licking twisting curling.--from Manhattan...http://willowesque.livejournal.com/313869.html |