Cirrus@Austlit

Author's note: ==

Sources:

• Thy poetry and thy pathos—all so strange!— from Ada Cambridge ‘A Dream of Venice’
• egregious disruptions of fashion from Peter Porter ‘St Cecilia’s day 1710’
• a misshapen picaresque from John Kinsella ‘hydrography’
• They brushed aside the dreamer in his dreams from George Essex Evans ‘The Master’
• O singing heart turn hawk from Douglas Stewart ‘Turn Eagle, Lark’
• The Baskerville-shaped shadows cross the floor from Peter Porter ‘The Puppy of Heaven’
• “If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.” Mary Shelley Frankenstein

Note 1: the poet has sometimes changed punctuation and line breaks, and almost always meanings

Note 2: the creation of this monster was inspired by a discussion at Under the counter or a flutter in the dovecot