Monthly Archives: January 2026

“Teach us to care and not to care / Teach us to sit still / Even among these rocks” (T. S. Eliot, from “Although I do not hope to turn again” in Ash-Wednesday.) The poet once again doesn’t know what … Continue reading →

“… And I who am here dissembled / Proffer my deeds to oblivion…” (T.S. Eliot, from “Lady, three white leopards sat under a juniper-tree,” in Ash-Wednesday.) “Dissembled” here seems to be intended to suggest “disassembled,” since the bones of the … Continue reading →