much Cavafy love

I will later kick myself for not posting one of the sexy poems, but I just couldn't pass up this one.

The Inkwell
Constantine P. Cavafy

Honest inkwell, sacred to the poet,
whence a whole world emerges,
as each figure draws near you,
it returns with a new kind of grace.

Where did your ink discover such fabulous
wealth! As each of its drops falls
on the paper it sets one more diamond
among the diamonds of our fantasy.

Who taught you the words that you launch
into the world's midst, and they fire us?
Even our children's children will read them
with the same feeling and warmth.

Where did you find these words that though they echo
in our ears as if heard for the first time,
yet do not appear entirely strange--
our hearts must have known them in another life.

The pen you moisten resembles a hand
moving around the clock of the soul.
It counts and determines the moments of feeling,
it counts and changes the hours of the soul.

Honest inkwell, sacred to the poet,
from whose ink a world emerges--
now comes to mind how many people
will be lost in it if deep sleep

should overtake the poet some night. 
The words will always be there; but what strange hand
will be able to find them, bring them to us?
You, faithful to the poet, will refuse it.

writing and clothing

My summary of The Dark Tower series by Stephen King:

Roses are read
Roland's eyes are blue
Ka sucks
And Flagg does, too.

Technically Banned Books Week was last week, but I forgot and so wore my shirt celebrating it this week. For those who have no idea what I'm talking about: this takes place in the United States (any other countries?) every year during the last week of September and is in defiance of books that various people have wanted banned for various reasons. I bought a white t-shirt and wrote on it using fabric paint. On the front: I <3 Banned Books. On the back:

Beloved
Grendel
Brothers Grimm
Chronicles of Narnia
Where's Waldo?
Shel Silverstein
A Wrinkle in Time

I wanted to add The Diary of Anne Frank along as a couple other titles, but I ran out of fabric paint. Still, I'm pleased with the result.