Comments on: How to burn https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/02/how-to-burn/ Purveyors of fine poetry since 2003. Fri, 07 Mar 2014 02:22:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Lucy https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/02/how-to-burn/#comment-23146 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:34:00 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15645#comment-23146 This might be my favourite so far; love the hooks and augers, and the shoulder blades of racehorses, and the slow book made of rust… and all of it really.

]]> By: Dave Bonta https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/02/how-to-burn/#comment-23138 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:47:18 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15645#comment-23138 In reply to Rachel Barenblat.

Oh, cool — glad you liked those lines. I’ll have to return to the sacrificial idea in another page of the manual.

]]> By: Dave Bonta https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/02/how-to-burn/#comment-23137 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:45:56 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15645#comment-23137 In reply to rr.

Whatever they suspect will not be as wondrous as the plain truth.

]]> By: Dave Bonta https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/02/how-to-burn/#comment-23136 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:45:05 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15645#comment-23136 In reply to mareymercy.

Thanks! I was afraid it might seem a little over-the-top.

]]> By: Rachel Barenblat https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/02/how-to-burn/#comment-23127 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:50:29 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15645#comment-23127 Oh, I like this one very much, Dave. Especially

Live on earth: an unconsummated star smoldering under a thin crust of ash.

and

Feed small rumors with bacon grease and fan them with the shoulder blades of race horses.

]]> By: rr https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/02/how-to-burn/#comment-23076 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:33:15 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15645#comment-23076 You know, I think people might begin to suspect something if you wear your heart on your blog. But fortunately the nihilistic ending will scotch such thoughts :-)

]]> By: mareymercy https://www.vianegativa.us/2012/02/how-to-burn/#comment-23068 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:33:42 +0000 http://www.vianegativa.us/?p=15645#comment-23068 Oh, that ending is perfect.

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